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Supply and issuance | Numiscue subject catalogue
Read the supply side across coin records, four guides and reference tables: ceilings, new issuance, burns and releases into circulation. The pages below collect the different mechanisms in one place, so you can move from the vocabulary to a specific asset and then compare its structure with the others.
Bitcoin: the 21 million cap and how issuance ends
Bitcoin's scarcity is a rule in the code, not a promise. How the halving works, where issuance stands now, and what happens when the subsidy runs out.
Ethereum: how ETH is issued and burned at once
After the Merge, Ethereum issues ETH to validators and burns ETH through the base fee. Net supply can go up or down, which is not the same as deflationary.
BNB: how the burn works and what it is tied to
BNB launched with 200 million tokens and is burned toward a stated floor of 100 million. How the quarterly formula and the per-block burn actually work.
Dogecoin: no supply cap, and what that means
Dogecoin has no maximum supply. It issues a fixed number of coins forever, which most introductions skip over. What that design actually does to the token.
Solana: the SOL inflation schedule, read properly
Solana's issuance follows a published curve down to a long-term floor. How to read it, and what the throughput numbers do and do not actually mean.
XRP: the escrow schedule and how supply is released
All 100 billion XRP were created at once. Escrow paces how much can reach the market each month, and unused amounts go to the back of the queue.
How to read a token's supply and emission schedule
Total, max and circulating supply are three different numbers, and market cap and fully diluted valuation are two more. This is how to tell them apart.
Token supply structure: 14 assets side by side
Maximum supply, issuance model, burn mechanism and release schedule, for all fourteen records. Every figure carries the month it was checked.
Token unlock calendar: a dated snapshot
Which of the fourteen records have scheduled supply events, and which have none. A snapshot compiled in August 2026, with a source link on every row.
Governance tokens: what a vote can and cannot change
Holding a governance token is not the same as having a vote, and the vote itself only reaches the admin functions written into the contracts. Where the limits sit, with the published thresholds.
Where staking rewards come from, and what dilutes them
Staking pays you in tokens that mostly did not exist before. The two sources a payout can have, why the per-validator reward shrinks as more people stake, and the arithmetic deciding whether your share of the supply actually grows.
Which supply number moves when tokens are burned or bought back
A burn can lower the total supply recorded in a token contract, or leave it untouched while the coins sit in an address nobody can open. What the burn function does, why a buyback is a different event, and how to check one announcement.