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Is SOL deflationary?
Growing · +3.6% provisional supply next year
SOL supply is expected to grow over the next twelve months (+3.6% provisional). That figure is a provisional estimate from a live protocol model with 382 inputs over 0 days, which needs 90 days of history to be measured. Under its 50% base-fee burn program, burns and new supply both occur, funded by network transaction fees. No scheduled token releases are known for the next twelve months. Beneat Supply Watch ranks SOL #8 of 25 with an overall supply score of 78 out of 100, as of Sep 6, 2026.
Supply score
78 / 100
Key figures
Supply next year
+3.6% provisional
Tokens unlocking, 12 months
None known
Circulating
Dynamic supply
Market cap
$61.5B
Supply direction score
56
Release pressure score
87
Program strength
98
Track record
95
Scores are 0–100 research shortcuts, not price forecasts. Sources: partial. Data as of Sep 6, 2026.
Supply history
Daily observed effective supply from the approved protocol adapter. Scheduled releases are shown separately below.
Upcoming releases
Supply changes with network use rather than a fixed release schedule. Legacy vesting is mature; ongoing supply comes from validator rewards.
No calculable SOL release is published for the coming months.
How SOL supply changes
Paid for by
Network transaction fees
What happens
50% base-fee burn
Where tokens go
Burned against staking issuance
The live model reads the current validator-inflation rate and subtracts a conservative base-fee burn floor from recent network throughput. Priority fees remain validator compensation.
Catalyst
No material catalyst recorded.
Offsetting risk
The fee-burn input is a lower bound because transactions can carry more than one signature.
Questions people ask about SOL supply
- Is SOL deflationary?
- SOL supply is expected to grow over the next twelve months (+3.6% provisional). That figure is a provisional estimate from a live protocol model with 382 inputs over 0 days, which needs 90 days of history to be measured. Under its 50% base-fee burn program, burns and new supply both occur, funded by network transaction fees. No scheduled token releases are known for the next twelve months. Beneat Supply Watch ranks SOL #8 of 25 with an overall supply score of 78 out of 100, as of Sep 6, 2026.
- When is the next SOL unlock?
- No dated SOL release is published for the coming months: supply changes with network use rather than a fixed release schedule. Legacy vesting is mature; ongoing supply comes from validator rewards.
- How much SOL is in circulation?
- 585.4M SOL is in circulation with a market cap of $61.5B. SOL has no fixed maximum supply. Release progress is 5 of 5; expected completion: Dynamic issuance.
- How does SOL supply change?
- The live model reads the current validator-inflation rate and subtracts a conservative base-fee burn floor from recent network throughput. Priority fees remain validator compensation. Program: 50% base-fee burn. Paid for by network transaction fees. Destination: burned against staking issuance.
- How reliable is this data?
- SOL has partial sources: 2 cited documents, last checked Sep 6, 2026. Reconciliation against the published plan is "within-tolerance". Observed circulating supply is compared with calculable scheduled releases; opaque and dynamic flows remain outside the expectation.
Sources
- CoinGecko · Market and circulating-supply snapshot ↗2026-09-06
- Solana Foundation · SOL staking inflation schedule ↗2026-09-01
Reconciliation: within-tolerance. Observed circulating supply is compared with calculable scheduled releases; opaque and dynamic flows remain outside the expectation. Machine-readable data: /api/screener/deflationary and calendar for SOL.
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