On 11 December 2025, the Elastos mainchain crossed block 2,102,400 and quietly did a loud thing: it cut ELA block rewards in half, from ~1.522 to ~0.761 ELA. That single line of code does more than shave numbers; it rearranges incentives for miners, validators, treasuries, and holders. If you care about the institutional health of a network, this is one of the few moments the rules themselves move the furniture. To follow halving related data and insights, make sure to check out the Elastos halving portal here
A Short Rewind (How We Got Here)
Elastos Foundation engineered Elastos blockchain’s scarcity:
- Pre-2020: ~4% annual inflation on an assumed ~33M ELA base (~1.32M ELA/year), split among Bitcoin merge miners, Elastos validators, and the Cyber Republic treasury.
- July 30, 2020: The Elastos Foundation burned 13,000,000 ELA (80% of the CR Genesis fund), resetting the mental base near 20M and hard-limiting treasury drift.
- 2021 tokenomics refactor:
- Block 919,800 (June 2021): 4% applied to 20M base ⇒ 800,000 ELA/year.
- Block 1,051,200 (Dec 2021): Annual rate cut to 2% with a fixed halving every 1,051,200 blocks (~4 years).
- First epoch math: 2% of 20M = ~400,000 ELA/year. With ~262,800 blocks/year (2-minute target), Rewards ≈ 1.522070015… ELA/block. Over four years: ~1.6M ELA mined.
What Just Changed (The Second Halving)
At block 2,102,400, the network stepped into epoch two:
- Base: 20,000,000 ELA (unchanged)
- Annual rate: 1% (down from 2%)
- New issuance: 200,000 ELA/year
- Per-block reward: ~0.7610350076 ELA
Four-year totals:
- First epoch (2021–2025): ~1.6M ELA
- Second epoch (2025–2029): ~0.8M ELA
In the next four years, Bitcoin miners will mine half as many ELA coins as the last four.
Who Gets What Now (PoW, BPoS, DAO)
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Now at ~0.761 ELA/block:
- 35% PoW merge miners ≈ 0.2663622527 ELA
- 35% BPoS validators/delegators ≈ 0.2663622527 ELA
- 30% DAO locked treasury ≈ 0.2283105023 ELA
Everyone tied to the block rewards saw income drop 50% at one block. With the block rewards slashed to ~0.76 ELA per block, miners and validators just been cut by 50% and by downshifting to 1% and halving annual issuance to 200,000 ELA.
The halving marks a new starting gun, by dialling issuance down and proving, in code, a disinflationary path to a finite supply, Elastos gives investors the one thing markets actually pay for, predictable scarcity, while turning utility ambition up across the stack. BeL2 unlocks Bitcoin finance on-chain, elastOS keeps grinding the new internet forward with personal clouds, PC² apps, and data-ownership toolsets, and Elacity markets turn creative work into revenue that settles at the speed of software. Together with partners bringing their own visions to the table, Elastos is moving from speculation toward business you can trust, on an ELA supply curve you can model.
