Early Node Staking Rewards

The early node staking rewards allocation represents 7.5% of the total MNTx supply (37,500,000 tokens). These rewards are distributed over the first 24 months of full network operation as an incentive for early infrastructure participation. The 24-month reward period began with the first epoch following the Token Generation Event on April 14, 2025, and is scheduled to conclude in April 2027.

This allocation exists to reward the participants who committed to the network's DePIN infrastructure from the earliest stages. Securing nodes during the private sale and early reservation rounds carried a higher degree of uncertainty than staking after the network was operational and generating revenue. The early staking rewards compensate for that commitment by providing additional MNTx distributions on top of the standard epoch rewards generated by telecom activity.

Each staked Switch Node and Validation Node receives an additional monthly reward over the 24-month period. These rewards are separate from the standard 10/60/15/15 reward distribution and do not draw from the revenue-funded reward pool. They are paid from the pre-allocated 37.5 million token reserve.

Early node stakers who participated in the private sale and early reservation rounds qualify to receive up to 75% of their initial stake in bonus tokens over the 24-month period.

Burn Condition

If any nodes remain unstaked during the early staking reward period, the rewards that would have been assigned to those unstaked nodes are not redistributed. They are permanently burned. This ensures that the early staking allocation only enters circulation when it is matched by active infrastructure participation, and prevents unearned tokens from diluting the supply.