[Tokenomics]
How the AET economy works
AET is the only token of AETRON. A hard cap of 33 million. Emission is paid only for confirmed AI work. The block reward halves every four years, the same way Bitcoin does it.
Network parameters
33,000,000AET
Total
12seconds
Block time
every 4 years
Halving
1.5AET / block
Block reward
Emission schedule
EpochBlock rewardPeriod
1
1.5 AET
Oct 2025 – Oct 2029
2
0.75 AET
Oct 2029 – Oct 2033
3
0.375 AET
Oct 2033 – Oct 2037
4
0.1875 AET
Oct 2037 – Oct 2041
The reward halves every four years, the same as Bitcoin. The first halving is in October 2029.
At the block level, 90% of the emission goes to neuronets in proportion to confirmed work, 5% to the chain's validators, and 5% to the treasury. The 80/10/10 split below is inside each neuronet.
How a neuronet's emission is split
Miners
80%
The main share of the neuronet's emission
For inference, model training and cross-checking other miners' responses
- Serving AI requests
- Distributed training
- Peer-replay of other miners' answers
Neuronet owner
10%
Set up the neuronet and runs it
This share is fixed to the owner and doesn't depend on any outside sales
- Setting up and configuring the neuronet
- Task parameters and re-check rules
- Growing the downstream product
Stakers
10%
Back a neuronet with their stake
The stake increases the neuronet's throughput and acts as a vote on whether the service is useful
- Delegating AET into a neuronet
- Income proportional to the stake
- The stake is returnable, not burned
How the economy is wired
A hard cap
Emission is capped at 33 million AET. There is no premine - every AET is issued for confirmed work.
Proof of Intelligence
The emission goes only to those whose AI work the network was able to re-check cryptographically.
Stake = throughput
Stake on a neuronet sets its throughput, and at the same time acts as a vote on whether the service is useful.
No payments inside the protocol
No one pays for inference at the protocol level. All roles earn from the emission only.