Polkadot’s dot -token slid almost 5%over the past 24 hours, despite the community of the network that proposes a milestone administration that reformes its tokenomics.
On September 14, the team confirmed Via X that the community had passed the proposal “Wish for Change”, which has set a hard cap of 2.1 billion dot.
The relocation ends the open-issue model of Polkadot, which generated around 120 million new tokens every year.
There are currently around 1.6 billion tokens in circulation, which means that more than three -quarters or 76%of the final offer has already been made.
Polkadot said that it aims to stabilize its economic design in the long term by introducing scarcity and impeding inflation as a financing mechanism. The change points to a broader effort to reduce dependence on eternal issue and to push the ecosystem to alternative income flows.
Dot’s new inflation schedule
The new framework is introducing a stepped inflation schedule from 14 March 2026. Under the revised model, the token issue will decrease over an adjustment period of two years.
Polkadot estimates that by 2040 there will be around a 1.91 billion dot in circulation, which is projected far below 3.4 billion under the old system. The last limit is expected to be reached around the year 2160.
To manage this process, the proposal outlines three schedules for reducing inflationary pressure. One option immediately lowers the emissions by more than half before it is closed, while another sharper early reductions applies, followed by a gradual decline to the next century.
Polkadot’s ecosystem changes
The revision of the board arrives when Polkadot works to strengthen its position against rivals such as Ethereum through initiatives such as Polkadot Capital Group, which wants to bridge traditional finances.
It also coincides with the return of co-founder Gavin Wood as CEO of Parity Technologies, the development arm of the blockchain network.
Yet these movements did not succeed in stopping the slide of the token.
At the time of the press, DOT acts at around $ 4.20, according to CryptoSlate data, which mark a new decrease of 24 hours of almost 5%.
The drop connects a wider decline, whereby it has loses around 34% of its value since the beginning of the year.