Incentive
The incentive may help encourage nodes to stay honest.
In Anemos, rewards are given to validators for collecting valid transactions and creating new blocks. These rewards incentivize validators to participate in consensus and maintain the security and integrity of the network.
Fair launch: minted emission, no premine
Anemos launches fair: there is no premine, no treasury balance, no foundation or team reward, and no supply cap. New coins are minted on every block by a deterministic emission schedule, so the protocol funds itself — and the stablecoin reserve — forever.
| Anemos | Bitcoin |
|---|---|
| Consensus is Proof of Stake | Consensus is Proof of Work |
| Every 10 seconds one block is minted | ~Every 10 minutes one block is mined |
| No supply cap; a smooth decay to a perpetual tail | Hard cap of 21,000,000 coins |
| Reward decays gradually every month | Reward halves every ~4 years |
| No premine, no treasury, no foundation cut | No premine |
The block reward decays Kaspa-style — a smooth geometric “chromatic halving” in monthly steps — from an initial reward toward a small perpetual tail, rather than the sharp 4-year cliffs of Bitcoin halvings. The tail matters: without it, funding for the reserve and holder interest would trend to zero as emission tapers. Because the reward is a pure function of block height, every node computes the same value. There is no halving cliff and no maximum supply — the tail is the deliberate, sustainable alternative.
The Treasury sentinel mints, it does not pay out
The reward transaction is the first transaction in each block (analogous to Bitcoin’s coinbase). In Anemos it is a batch transfer minted from the Treasury sentinel address: recipients are credited with no sender debit, and the Treasury holds a zero balance. There is no premined pool being drawn down.
Reward split: proposer + reserve
Each block’s reward R(h) splits between:
- the block proposer (and, under validator delegation, the delegate owner’s share), and
- the native stablecoin reserve.
The reserve slice is health-dependent, routed by the collateral-ratio EMA: it builds the buffer at a base rate in the comfort band, tapers toward zero as the ratio weakens (so emission flows to validator security exactly when the chain is most attackable), and diverts surplus to stablecoin-holder interest only when the system is strongly overcollateralized. A hard validator-share floor guarantees the proposer always keeps a majority of every block, preserving BFT liveness.
Per-block conservation — total ANM increases by exactly R(h), regardless of the transaction mix or
delegation state — is proven in the whitepaper. Transaction fees are
net-neutral: re-minted to the proposer, never destroyed or double-counted.