FIRE (Flare Income Reinvestment Entity) is the governed pool that collects protocol fees from FAssets, Flare Smart Accounts, Flare Data Connector, Flare Confidential Compute, and captured value from DeFi activity with protocol-owned block building.
What does it do?
Primary mandate: reduce FLR supply to the maximum extent possible — burn and buyback.
Secondary: reward asset issuers, support dApp liquidity, fund Foundation operations.
Who is involved? Initially, FIRE is administered by the Flare Foundation, with a committee assembled over time. FIRE can allocate funds only within its defined mandate. If the community deems FIRE unaligned with its interests, it may vote yearly to adopt joint governance.
FIRE has a primary mandate to reduce FLR supply as far as possible, but it also has secondary mandates around ecosystem growth.
How should the community think about that balance from day one?
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What is this proposal looking to improve?
Flare already has real activity: $160M+ TVL, 150M FXRP minted, 85% deployed in DeFi.
But FLR's economics weren't designed to capture all that activity. FLR was tied mainly to FAssets collateral and minting — real demand, but it didn't fully scale with the DeFi happening on top.
This proposal is designed to strengthen the connection between FLR and real network activity — through lower inflation, increased burn, and broader capture of protocol revenue.
What changes in the near term if the proposal passes?
• Inflation: 5% → 3%. Hard cap: 5B → 3B FLR/yr.
• Base gas fee: 60 → 1,200 gwei on average (20x - Transactions still cost a fraction of a cent.)
• Estimated annual burn: ~7.5M → ~300M FLR at current tx levels.
• Net inflation falls to ~2.66% — with growth yet to follow.