The number of new bitcoins halves about every four years and stops at 21 million. Every node enforces the rule, and no company can change it. The halving countdown →
Source: Bitcoin.org FAQ · checked 2 October 2026
The supply is capped at 45 billion ada. New ada enters circulation only from a fixed reserve, as staking rewards and funding for the network's treasury.
Source: Cardano: what Cardano is · checked 2 October 2026
The total supply of LINK is capped at one billion tokens, issued on Ethereum.
Source: Chainlink: what the LINK token is · checked 2 October 2026
AVAX is capped at 720 million, of which 360 million were created at the start. The fee on every transaction is burned.
Source: Avalanche docs: the AVAX token · checked 2 October 2026
About 50 billion lumens exist, and the network creates no more. The Stellar Development Foundation holds roughly 15.5 billion of them, and when those reach the market is up to the foundation.
Source: Stellar docs: lumens · checked 2 October 2026
The reward for each new block halves every 840,000 blocks, and the total stops at 84,000,000 LTC. The rule is part of the network itself. The halving countdown →
Source: Our halving series · checked 2 October 2026
The reward for each new block halves every 210,000 blocks, and the total stops at 21,000,000 BCH. The rule is part of the network itself. The halving countdown →
Source: Our halving series · checked 2 October 2026
Zcash has a fixed total supply of 21 million coins, the same as Bitcoin, and the reward for each new block halves on a schedule. The halving countdown →
Source: Zcash docs: basics · checked 2 October 2026
The total supply of SUI is capped at 10 billion coins.
Source: Sui docs: tokenomics · checked 2 October 2026
The supply is capped at 2.1 billion DOT, a limit set by a vote of DOT holders. New DOT is issued each year, and the amount steps down every two years.
Source: Polkadot wiki: inflation · checked 2 October 2026
Ethereum Classic has a supply cap of the kind Bitcoin has: the reward paid to miners shrinks on a fixed schedule.
Source: Ethereum Classic: the supply cap · checked 2 October 2026
TAO has a hard cap of 21 million. The amount issued with each block halves whenever the total in existence passes a set threshold: the first halving came in December 2025 and took it to 0.5 TAO per block.
Source: Bittensor docs: emissions · checked 2 October 2026
The supply of Algo is capped at 10 billion. Staking rewards are paid from transaction fees and, for about two years, from a fixed pool held by the Algorand Foundation.
Source: Algorand: staking rewards FAQ · checked 2 October 2026
The project says the maximum supply of SKY is capped at 23.46 billion and that new emissions are permanently disabled.
Source: Sky: understanding the SKY token · checked 2 October 2026
MORPHO has a maximum supply of 1 billion. The token in use today is an upgradeable contract, created by a vote of Morpho's governance to replace the original fixed one.
Source: Morpho docs: the MORPHO token · checked 2 October 2026
Pi's white paper sets a maximum total supply of 100 billion Pi, of which the community is to receive 80 billion and the Core Team 20 billion.
Source: Pi white paper · checked 2 October 2026
No more than 2 billion FIL will ever exist. Most of it is created only as the network grows, and some is permanently removed through fees and penalties, so the docs say the maximum will never be reached.
Source: Filecoin docs: crypto-economics · checked 2 October 2026
Dash's total supply is set to end between 17.74 and 18.92 million coins. The new coins created with each block shrink by 7.14% a year.
Source: Dash docs: features · checked 2 October 2026
The total supply of VET is fixed at 86,712,634,466, and its docs say no new VET will ever be created.
Source: VeChain docs: VET · checked 2 October 2026
Decred has a hard cap of just under 21 million coins. The reward for each block shrinks by about 1% every three weeks, and the last one is due in 2120.
Source: Decred docs: issuance · checked 2 October 2026
CAKE has a hard cap of 400 million, lowered from 450 million by a vote in January 2026. PancakeSwap also buys CAKE back with a share of its fees and burns it, aiming to shrink the supply by at least 4% a year.
Source: PancakeSwap docs: CAKE tokenomics · checked 2 October 2026
The ether.fi docs say ETHFI has been fully minted with a fixed supply of 1 billion, and that there will be no further issuance.
Source: ether.fi docs: ETHFI allocations · checked 2 October 2026
RAY has a maximum supply of 555 million, and the authority to create more is disabled. About 1.9 million a year is still released from a reserve set aside inside that total.
Source: Raydium docs: RAY · checked 2 October 2026
M started with 5 billion tokens and has a maximum supply of 10 billion. The rest is created over time as rewards for producing blocks.
Source: MemeCore docs: the M token · checked 2 October 2026
The total supply of VIRTUAL is 1 billion, and its white paper says it was minted with no future inflation. 35% sits in a treasury controlled by the protocol's DAO, which can release at most 10% a year for the next three years.
Source: Virtuals white paper: tokenomics · checked 2 October 2026
RUNE has a maximum supply of about 360 million, all of it already released. 1% of the fees the network collects is burned, so the amount falls over time.
Source: THORChain docs: tokenomics · checked 2 October 2026
NEO has a total of 100 million tokens, all created at the start, and it cannot be divided: the smallest unit is 1 NEO.
Source: Neo: NEO and GAS · checked 2 October 2026
The supply of THETA is fixed at 1 billion and, its docs say, will never increase.
Source: Theta docs: what Theta Network is · checked 2 October 2026
CVX has a maximum supply of 100 million. It is minted as rewards alongside the CRV that Curve liquidity providers claim through Convex, at a ratio that falls as more CVX exists.
Source: Convex docs: tokenomics · checked 2 October 2026
eCash has the same fixed supply as Bitcoin, counted in smaller units. Its site says 90% of all the eCash that will ever exist has already been mined.
Source: eCash: about · checked 2 October 2026
Horizen's site gives ZEN a fixed maximum supply of 21 million. ZEN began in 2017 as a fork of Zcash and moved to the Base network in 2025.
Source: Horizen: the ZEN token · checked 2 October 2026
GLM has a maximum total supply of 1 billion. It replaces an older token, GNT, which can still be exchanged for GLM one for one, with no deadline.
Source: Golem: the GLM token · checked 2 October 2026
BAT's white paper sets a cap of 1.5 billion tokens and says no new tokens will be created once the pool set aside for users is used up. Its site says over 99% of that total is now in circulation.
Sources: BAT white paper, Basic Attention Token · checked 2 October 2026
The Sandbox's docs give SAND a maximum supply of 3 billion.
Source: The Sandbox docs: SAND · checked 2 October 2026
The supply was fixed at 420.69 trillion tokens when PEPE was created, and the project says nobody controls the contract any longer.
Source: pepe.vip · checked 2 October 2026
There were 100 billion XRP when the ledger was created. In 2017 the company Ripple placed 55 billion of them in escrow, and how fast that reaches the market is up to Ripple.
Source: XRP Ledger docs: what XRP is · checked 2 October 2026
BNB has no cap written into it. BNB Chain destroys some BNB every quarter and a share of every fee, with the stated aim of bringing the total down to 100 million.
Source: BNB Chain: what BNB is · checked 2 October 2026
One billion UNI were created at launch. Holders can vote to create up to 2% more each year and have not done so, and protocol fees are used to destroy UNI.
Source: Uniswap docs: the UNI token · checked 2 October 2026
ARB was created with a supply of 10 billion. Holders can vote to create more, at most 2% of the supply a year.
Source: Arbitrum Foundation docs: the ARB token · checked 2 October 2026
WLD is capped at 10 billion until at least 24 July 2038. After that the protocol's governance may create more, and the token's contract limits that to 1.5% a year.
Source: World white paper: tokenomics · checked 2 October 2026
ONDO started with a supply of 10 billion, and its docs say no inflation is scheduled or planned. That is a stated plan, not a cap.
Source: Ondo Foundation docs: the ONDO token · checked 2 October 2026
KCS started with 200 million tokens. KuCoin buys some back every month and destroys them, an amount it bases on its monthly revenue, and says the supply is set to settle at 100 million.
Source: KuCoin: KCS · checked 2 October 2026
BGB started with 2 billion tokens. 800 million were destroyed at the end of 2024 and 220 million more in September 2025, and further burns each quarter are tied to how much BGB is used to pay network fees.
Sources: Bitget: BGB, Morph: evolving BGB · checked 2 October 2026
APT has a maximum supply of 2.1 billion, and Aptos says none can be created beyond it without governance approval. New APT is issued as staking rewards, and all transaction fees are burned.
Source: Aptos: APT supply · checked 2 October 2026
LEO is being bought back and destroyed by iFinex, the company behind Bitfinex, out of its revenues. Its own dashboard showed about 80 million burned and about 920 million left on 2 October 2026.
Sources: iFinex: UNUS SED LEO dashboard, Bitfinex: zero fees Q&A · checked 2 October 2026
Gate destroys GT every quarter. Its own page showed about 190 million GT burned, 61.5% of the total, and about 107 million in circulation on 2 October 2026.
Source: Gate: GateToken · checked 2 October 2026
New CRV is still being issued: about 115.5 million in the year to August 2026. The schedule was fixed in the token's contract in 2020, cuts the rate by about 15.9% every August, and Curve says nobody can change it.
Source: Curve news: the emission rate cut · checked 2 October 2026
PUMP has a total supply of 1 trillion. Pump.fun says half of what it earns buys PUMP on the open market and burns it. Its own page showed about 169 billion burned on 2 October 2026.
Source: Pump.fun: PUMP token · checked 2 October 2026
Aster buys back ASTER with 99% of its daily fees and burns an equal amount from its reserve every two weeks. Its docs say the burns continue until the total supply reaches 3 billion.
Source: Aster docs: tokenomics · checked 2 October 2026
JST has a maximum supply of 9.9 billion. Protocol revenue is used to buy JST on the open market and send it to a burn address, so the amount in circulation falls as the program continues.
Source: JustLend DAO docs: tokenomics · checked 2 October 2026
ZK has a programmed supply cap of 21 billion, and not all of it has been minted yet. The cap can be raised through a protocol governance upgrade.
Source: ZK Nation: ZK token · checked 2 October 2026
Ether has no maximum. New ether is paid to stakers and part of every fee is destroyed, so the total can rise or fall.
Source: Ethereum.org: issuance · checked 2 October 2026
SOL has no maximum. New SOL is issued on a schedule that began at 8% a year and falls 15% each year until it reaches 1.5%.
Source: Solana docs: inflation schedule · checked 2 October 2026
USDC has no maximum. It is created when dollars are paid in to Circle and destroyed when they are paid out.
Source: Circle: transparency · checked 2 October 2026
TRX has no fixed total. New TRX is paid out with every block and TRX is burned as fees, and both rates can be changed by a vote of the network's block producers.
Source: TRON docs: tokenomics · checked 2 October 2026
Monero has no maximum. Since May 2022 every new block creates up to 0.6 XMR, and that reward never drops to zero.
Source: Monero: tail emission · checked 2 October 2026
The supply of ICP moves both ways. New ICP is created to pay the operators of the network's machines and as voting rewards, and ICP is destroyed when it is converted to pay for computing and as transaction fees. Which side is larger depends on how the network is used.
Source: Internet Computer docs: network economics · checked 2 October 2026
POL started at 10 billion, matching MATIC one for one. About 2% more is created each year, and Polygon's governance can change that rate, up to a ceiling written into the token's contract.
Source: Polygon docs: POL · checked 2 October 2026
The supply of Canton Coin is not fixed. Coins are destroyed when they are used to buy network traffic, and new ones are issued as rewards to those who run the network and its applications, up to a ceiling on how fast they can be created.
Source: Canton Network docs: Canton Coin tokenomics · checked 2 October 2026
ATOM has no cap. New ATOM is created as staking rewards, at a yearly rate that moves between 7% and 20% depending on how much of the supply is staked.
Source: Cosmos Hub docs: delegator FAQ · checked 2 October 2026
INJ has no fixed total. New INJ is created as block rewards for validators, and INJ is destroyed through the network's burn, which its docs call a dynamic supply mechanism.
Source: Injective docs: INJ coin · checked 2 October 2026
STX has no fixed supply cap. Its site says the supply is governed by STX holders through the network's proposal process, which can change how much is issued.
Source: Stacks: what the STX token is · checked 2 October 2026
TIA has no cap. It started with 1 billion, and new TIA is created every year: about 2.5% after an upgrade in November 2025, a rate set to fall by 6.7% a year until it settles at 1.5%.
Sources: Celestia docs: staking, governance and supply, Celestia docs: overview of TIA · checked 2 October 2026
Ten billion STRK were created in 2022, and the docs say further tokens are minted through an inflation mechanism. They add that the token's economics can change by governance decision.
Source: Starknet docs: STRK · checked 2 October 2026
PENDLE has no fixed total. New tokens are issued as incentives, at a rate the docs set at 2% a year from April 2026, and they say governance may propose changes.
Source: Pendle docs: tokenomics · checked 2 October 2026
New AERO is issued every week as rewards to those who provide liquidity. The docs put the rate at about 10.9% a year as of April 2026, on a total supply of 1.88 billion.
Source: Aerodrome docs · checked 2 October 2026
MON started with 100 billion tokens. Each block creates 25 new MON for validators and stakers, about 2 billion a year, and the base part of every transaction fee is burned.
Source: Monad: MON tokenomics · checked 2 October 2026
IOTA has no fixed maximum. 767,000 new IOTA are created each epoch and fees are burned, so the total moves with the balance between the two.
Source: IOTA docs: the IOTA token · checked 2 October 2026
CFX has no fixed total. New CFX is created as rewards for miners and stakers, part of the fees is burned, and the rates of both are set by votes of the network's DAO.
Source: Conflux docs: economics · checked 2 October 2026
New KAIA is issued with every block. Rewards that validators do not earn are burned, which lowers the net amount issued.
Source: Kaia white paper · checked 2 October 2026
OP was created in May 2022 with an initial supply of 4,294,967,296 tokens. That figure is not a ceiling: adjusting inflation is one of the matters holders vote on.
Source: Optimism docs: capital allocation · checked 2 October 2026
EIGEN has no fixed total. Its initial supply was 1,673,646,668, and the protocol mints new EIGEN as rewards: 4% of the initial supply in the first year. The minting continues unless governance changes it.
Sources: Eigen Foundation: programmatic incentives, Eigen Foundation: the initial EIGEN supply · checked 2 October 2026
S has no fixed total. New S is issued for an airdrop and for yearly funding over six years, with unused amounts burned. After the network's first four years, new S is to be issued at 1.75% a year to reward validators.
Source: Sonic docs: S token · checked 2 October 2026
CHZ has no fixed total. New CHZ is created at a yearly rate that started at 8.80% and falls to a floor of 1.88% from the 14th year. Most of the gas fees paid are burned.
Source: Chiliz docs: tokenomics · checked 2 October 2026
Dogecoin has no maximum. Every block creates 10,000 new coins, about once a minute, with no end date.
Source: Dogecoin Core FAQ · checked 2 October 2026
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