Solana Community Proposes Major Token Economic Shift

According to PANews, the Solana community has introduced a new governance proposal, SIMD-0411, aimed at significantly accelerating the network's deflationary timeline and reshaping the long-term economic model of the SOL token. The proposal seeks to increase Solana's annual deflation rate from -15% to -30%, reducing the time to achieve the long-term inflation floor from approximately six years to just over three years. Current projections suggest this change will decrease future SOL token issuance by over 22 million tokens, equivalent to nearly $3 billion at current market valuations, marking one of the most significant monetary policy adjustments in the ecosystem's history. Solana's existing token economic framework sets an annual inflation rate of about 4.18%, gradually decreasing to a final inflation rate of 1.5%. SIMD-0411 accelerates this process, establishing a faster trend of token issuance reduction. Proponents argue that this will improve supply-demand dynamics, support stronger price stability, and align Solana's economic model with the behavioral expectations of institutional investors entering the ecosystem. For a chain historically focused on growth, throughput, and incentive-driven expansion, this represents a shift towards a more scarcity-oriented design philosophy.