Solana's Inflation Now Decays Twice as Fast (SIMD-0550)

Originally published on xroot.dev. Solana's inflation schedule has been the same curve since 2021: start at 8% a year, shrink by 15% of itself every year, stop at 1.5%. Stakers have quoted "about 4-and-a-bit percent" for a while because that is roughly where the curve sits five years in. SIMD-0550 changes one number in that curve — the annual...