Emissions are a hidden headwind on price
A great narrative can be quietly overwhelmed by relentless new supply. This tool turns an emission schedule into an inflation rate and a concrete daily dollar amount of sell pressure the market has to absorb. Check how much total supply is still locked with the token vesting calculator.
Emission: the inflation rate of your coin
Token emission is new supply entering circulation β staking rewards, mining, liquidity incentives. It works exactly like monetary inflation: if a coin emits 10% new supply annually and demand stays flat, price mechanically drifts 9% lower (1 Γ· 1.10) as the same value spreads over more tokens.
The comparison that matters: emission rate versus your staking yield. Earning 8% APY staking a coin with 12% annual emission means your share of the network is shrinking β you're earning a positive number of a diluting asset, net β3.6% in ownership terms. High advertised staking yields funded by high emission are a treadmill dressed as an escalator.
Where to look it up: tokenomics docs list max supply and emission curves; the delta between circulating supply now and a year ago gives the realized rate. Coins with declining emission schedules (halvings, decay curves) front-load the dilution β the same coin can be 40% annual emission in year one and 3% by year five, which changes the hold thesis entirely.