PLX has a fixed total supply of 1,000,000,000 tokens — and unlike inflationary models that keep minting indefinitely, PLX releases its Mining Rewards allocation on a scheduled halving curve. Here's why that matters.
What "halving" means here
Rather than releasing mining rewards at a flat rate forever, PLX Network reduces the amount released each year:
- Year 1: 250,000,000 PLX released
- Year 2: 175,000,000 PLX released
- Year 3: 125,000,000 PLX released
- Year 4 onward: the remaining balance continues to decay on the same curve
Each year releases less than the year before, following the same logic that established cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin use to protect long-term value: front-loading token distribution eventually floods supply and erodes what each token is worth.
Why not just release it all at once?
A flat, unlimited emission rate rewards only the earliest users and devalues the token for everyone who joins later. A scheduled decay curve keeps early participation valuable while still leaving meaningful rewards for miners who join in later years — it's a distribution problem as much as an economic one.
What this means for your mining rate
Your individual PLX/hr rate — base rate plus badge and referral bonuses — isn't directly cut by the halving schedule session to session. What the halving schedule governs is the total pool of Mining Rewards being distributed across the entire network over time, which is why joining earlier and building an active referral network compounds in your favor.
The bigger picture
Mining Rewards make up 55% of the total 1B PLX supply, with the remaining 45% split across referral incentives, exchange liquidity, team allocation, marketing, and reserve. Combined with the halving curve, this is designed to be a multi-year system rather than a rewards pool that runs dry in month one.
See the full allocation breakdown in our Whitepaper.