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The Aptos Foundation is proposing a significant shake-up to the dynamics of the Aptos token, announcing a range of potential policy changes designed to spur greater APT deflation.   In an X post on Wednesday, the Aptos Foundation said it would submit several governance proposals to help transition the ecosystem away from its current subsidy-based emissions model toward a focus on “performance-driven mechanisms” and reducing APT supply.  “The Aptos network is transitioning to performance-driven tokenomics designed to align supply mechanics with network utilization,” the Aptos Foundation said, adding: “This update replaces bootstrap-era subsidy with mechanisms tied to transaction activity, establishing a framework where burns can exceed emissions as high-throughput applications scale.”  Source: Aptos One of the foundation’s proposals is to set a hard cap of 2.1 billion tokens, as APT currently has no maximum on its total supply. The team said there are currently 1.196 billion APT in circulation. Under the current emission structure, new tokens are continuously minted to support the ecosystem by funding things like development, grants, and staking rewards.  Meanwhile, significant token unlocks have been hanging over the ecosystem.  However, the Aptos Foundation said this pressure has been easing and will continue to decline after the next major four-year token unlock cycle ends in October, resulting in a 60% reduction in annualized supply unlocks.  The team said that as the ecosystem has matured to the point where big institutions such as BlackRock, Franklin Templeton, and Apollo are now deploying “hundreds of millions onchain,” APT tokenomics need to become more sustainable.  “Without reform, emissions continue indefinitely with no hard ceiling, no performance requirements, and no connection between issuance and network activity,” the team said.  Key proposals and policy changes afoot  Alongside the hard 2.1 billion supply cap, the proposed policy changes include reducing the annual staking rewards rate from…

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