Aptos Foundation locks 210M APT, shifting to staking rewards
Aptos Foundation set out a plan to permanently lock 210 million APT and redirect Foundation funding toward staking rewards, alongside a lower 2.6% annual staking rate and a 2.1 billion APT maximum supply. The proposal also included a tenfold gas-fee increase and a shift to performance-based ecosystem grants, while one later update said the 210 million APT lock was already being reaffirmed as an insider unlock cycle neared its end.
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Aptos users and validators would notice the change in the way the network pays out and collects value, because the staking rate, gas fees and grant rules were all set out together. The later update said those settings were already live, so the effect is not just a proposal on paper but a network configuration people interact with today.
Before this, the Foundation’s 210 million APT was not described as permanently locked, and the plan now keeps those tokens from being sold or distributed while they continue to earn rewards. What changes in practice is the Foundation’s handling of that supply and the rules around fees and grants; what does not change is that the tokens remain staked rather than burned.
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