On the 21st of June marked an incredible milestone for the #ergo network and ecosystem.
Nearly 8 months ago, core developer, Alex Chepurnoy, proposed an adjustment to the emission schedule of $ERG.
Why ?
The reason for this is simple: extend the mining rewards beyond the original eight year schedule.
This would give the #ergo team more time to effectively develop the necessary crypto economic SECURITY for the long-term sustainability of the blockchain.
However the original emission schedule was set to release 75 $ERG/block for the first two years.
Then After two years - the emission rate was set to decrease by 3 $ERG.
With an additional reduction of 3 #ERGO/block every three months.
That schedule would have depleted the mining rewards after approximately8 years which would have been bad for the #ergo ecosystem.
The network would then rely on transaction fees and Storage Rent to compensate miners
and this is one of the main reason the upgrade was necessary
So what's the solution ?
With EIP-27 upgrade - the emission curve is extended by about 17.38 years instead of 8 years giving the team more time to focus on quality work for the ecosyste,.
The amount of the block rewards so that a portion of the supply is put into a remission contract that will release block rewards until approximately 2045.
The original plan to continue decreasing block rewards every three months is still in place.
Therefore the next reduction in rewards took place on July 2, 2022.
At which time, block rewards will reduce another 3 $ERG/block.
Congrats to the #Ergonauts community and the team. Such unique development are necessary for long term growth.
With this and consistent BUILDING . I believe #ergo can show it's true potential.
1️⃣ What is #Ergo
2️⃣ The team's background
3️⃣ What sigma protocol
4️⃣ Storage rent & NiPoPoWs
5️⃣ #Ergo's use case
6️⃣ Ergo's scalability
7️⃣ why UTXO
8️⃣ My closing thoughts
Let's dive in 🎯
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#Ergo is a next-gen proof of Work smart-contract contract platform that enables new models of financial interaction.
It's underpinned by a safe and rich scripting language and flexible and powerful Zero-Knowledge proofs.