TNT Supply and Incentives

No Automatic Inflation in v2

Tangle v2 does not mint TNT continuously for block rewards or staking. Incentives are budgeted and pre-funded by governance, which means there is no automatic inflation at the protocol level.

Budgeted Incentives (Pre-Funded)

If governance allocates TNT to incentives, funds are deposited into InflationPool and distributed by epoch:

• Stakers: TNT incentives can be paid via RewardVaults (per asset) and optional staker exposure budgets.
• Operators / Developers / Customers: TNT rewards can be allocated based on activity metrics.

See Incentives and Metrics and Scoring for the full model.

Source contracts:

• https://github.com/tangle-network/tnt-core/blob/main/src/rewards/InflationPool.sol
• https://github.com/tangle-network/tnt-core/blob/main/src/rewards/RewardVaults.sol

Service Fees Are Separate

Service fees are paid by customers in the payment token (native or ERC-20) and are not inflation. Fees are split across developers, the protocol, operators, and stakers.

Governance Control

If the protocol ever enables minting or changes the supply policy, this page will be updated to reflect the new model.