The Aptos Foundation has proposed a significant shift towards a deflationary economic model by capping the $APT supply at 2.1 billion tokens, reducing staking emissions, permanently locking 210 million tokens, and enhancing burn mechanisms. These changes aim to tie token destruction to protocol activity, such as transaction fees, thereby encouraging long-term holder incentives and addressing inflation pressures while ensuring validator security. This proposal reflects Aptos’s ongoing efforts to evolve its tokenomics in a competitive layer-1 landscape.
Aptos Foundation proposes hard token cap for APT at 2.1B
