Preserve DOT Treasury from Burn

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If approved, we kindly request fellowship to URGENTLY reduce 24-day treasury burns from 1% to 0%
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Critical Risk:

Hard Pressure issuance caps DOT supply at 2.1B DOT & reduces treasury income.

Currently at 18M/year (15% of issuance)
→ 8.32M DOT/year (Mar 2026)
→ 6.15M DOT/year (Mar 2028)
→ 4.53M DOT/year (Mar 2030)

The Burn destroys scarce funds useful to OpenGov, economic stimulus, or network security.
Halting it preserves these assets.

Burn Facts:

1% of treasury burned every 24 days
108,162 DOT burned Oct 24, 2025
1.66M DOT burned in 2024
20.12M DOT burned since 2020

Purpose of The Burn:

Legend has it The Burn was intended to motivate DOT holders to put the treasury to work before it vanished.

This vestige of Gov1 design, however, may no longer serve DOT holder interests under a capped & and declining issuance.

Support for Halting The Burn:

1.

Besides the aye voters here, Gavin Wood signalled support for Halting the Burn on a Nov. 6 livestream.

"I absolutely agree we should be doing this..."

2.

On Nov 10 Web3 Foundation Researcher Jonas Gehrlein shared support for Halting the Burn in his Dynamic Allocation Pool forum piece.
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3.

Decision Deposit placed by Paranodes - Thank you!

4.

DV Lite, The White Rabbit, switched to AYE.

Vote AYE to halt The Burn.

Nay? Justify why we should burn treasury assets instead of saving them for future operations below!

Edited

Here’s a simple summary of the proposal:

The treasury burns 1% of its funds every 24 days.
This burn destroys DOT tokens that could be used for other purposes.
The total supply of DOT is now capped, so burning reduces available funds.
In 2024 alone, 1.66 million DOT were burned.
Important people like Gavin Wood support stopping the burn.
Stopping the burn will save money for future network needs.
The burn was originally meant to encourage spending, but it may no longer be helpful.
Voting "AYE" means you want to stop burning treasury funds.

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