Stacks Halving Schedule: Reports and Recommendations

[jude]

@blocks8

This framework, available in full in this report, suggests the community should first decide what it is optimizing for from among a few key criteria:

• Maintain the current block reward at 1000 Stacks for as long as feasible, essentially optimizing for maximum ecosystem maturity prior to an initial halving.
• Maintain the 2050 supply at the originally projected 1.818 billion Stacks, ensuring that there is no further dilution to Stacks holders when viewed through the lens of 2050 supply.
• Maintain a halving schedule whereby each halving decreases the supply by 50% every ~4 years, ensuring a relatively gradual decrease in block rewards going forward.

Just want to emphasize that this is the trilemma we need resolution on. Stacks can have at most two of these three properties in its emissions schedule, if it is to change at all. The questions we need resolution on are:

• Is a change desirable?
• If so, then which of the above properties should be dropped?