NADO
Money that gets scarcer the more it's used.
NADO mints a tiny flat subsidy, burns 100% of every fee, and mints even less as more coins are bonded. There is no hard cap and no halving cliff — instead, once real usage arrives, the supply peaks and then shrinks forever. Drag the sliders and watch it happen.
Set the scenario
Two things drive the money supply: how much of it is bonded (locked as mining conviction — more bonding → less minting) and how much the chain is used (every fee is destroyed).
The supply, next 20 years
Coins added or destroyed vs. today, if fees keep growing at your adoption rate. This is the shape hard money is supposed to have — up during bootstrap, then down forever.
Per-block economics vs. bonded ratio
The mint curve 0.1 · m(r) only ever goes down as conviction rises; fees push the net below zero. Everything under the zero line is destroyed supply.
The model (consensus-frozen)
Reward per block =0.1 · m(r) with m(r)=0.15+0.85·e−4r, where
r is the bonded share of supply — the more the network bonds, the less it mints. Blocks come
every 6 seconds (a non-consensus pacing target, operator-tunable). There is no fee-weighted term and no
ceiling: fees are destroyed, so net = minted − fees. Since m ≤ 1,
0.1 NADO/block is the maximum emission ever, and m never reaches zero — a perpetual
tail of ≈0.0166 NADO/block (~52,000 NADO/yr) keeps block production paid forever: no hard cap, no
security cliff. Bonding self-limits near ~40% (the open lane siphons 30% of the draw), and every unit
of fee above the mint is a net burn — usage shrinks the supply. In consensus the curve is a
hardcoded integer basis-point table (no floats, no forks).
See the full spec.
How the majors were born
Every chain answers the same three questions exactly once, at launch: who got the first coins, who was allowed to earn the next ones, and what happens to fees. Those answers can never be re-run. Here's how the big ones answered — structural facts only, no market data.
| Chain | Launch | Premine / insider allocation | Supply schedule | Who could realistically mine at launch | Fee burn |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NADO | 2026 | None — genesis mints zero coins | No cap, no cliff: max 0.1/block, shrinks as bonding rises, perpetual ~52k/yr tail; net supply falls under real usage | Anyone with a phone browser (open lane, no capital) | 100% of every fee |
| Bitcoin | 2009 | None (fair launch; earliest CPU miners were simply first) | 21M hard cap; halving cliff every ~4 yrs — 3.125 BTC/block since Apr 2024, ~95% of all coins already mined | Any CPU in 2009 — ASIC datacenters today | None — fees go to miners |
| Ethereum | 2015 | 72M ETH pre-created at genesis: 2014 ICO plus ~12M to the foundation & early contributors | No cap; post-Merge PoS issuance with EIP-1559 base-fee burn — sometimes net-deflationary | GPU rigs at launch; today a 32 ETH stake | Partial — base fee only, tips to validators |
| Monero | 2014 | None | No cap; smooth decay into a fixed 0.6 XMR/block tail (since 2022) — no security cliff | Any CPU — and still CPU today (RandomX) | None |
| Litecoin | 2011 | None (announced in advance, mined from block 1) | 84M hard cap; halving cliffs — 6.25 LTC/block since Aug 2023 | CPU/GPU then; scrypt ASICs now | None |
| Dogecoin | 2013 | None | No cap; fixed 10,000 DOGE/block forever (~5.2B/yr, a slowly falling inflation rate) | CPU/GPU then; merge-mined by Litecoin ASIC farms now | None |
| XRP | 2012 | All 100B XRP created at launch; ~80B handed to the company (Ripple) | Nothing left to issue — company escrow drips supply into the market | Nobody — there is no mining and never was | Tiny — the per-tx drop fee is destroyed |
| Solana | 2020 | 500M SOL at genesis; roughly 60% to private sales, team & foundation | No cap; inflation schedule decaying toward 1.5%/yr | Stake capital plus datacenter-grade hardware | Partial — 50% of base fees |
Bitcoin got the launch right and the ending wrong: zero premine, but a hard cap that walks its security budget off a cliff, and a mining floor that moved from "any laptop" to "own a power substation". Ethereum and Solana got the machinery right later — burns, smooth issuance — but only after selling most of the launch supply to insiders first, and XRP never pretended otherwise. Monero is the closest relative: fair launch, CPU mining, perpetual tail — it just never burns a fee. NADO takes the union: a supply that starts at zero like Bitcoin's, a tail that never cliffs like Monero's, a burn stronger than Ethereum's (100% of every fee, not just the base), and a launch floor lower than all of them — a phone browser. The first question can only be answered once. We answered it zero.