title_body: What is the logic behind Cardano's tokenomics and emmission schedule? Bitcoin was made to be mined until roughly 2140.  I like that it was made for decades to come while many projects are built for 4 years or whatever.
  Personally I do not believe inflation in and of itself is bad, as economies are not static and expand.  What is bad is inflation manipulation that is unprovable and not tamper-proof, or when it is too high.
  Coin Gecko currently shows circ supply to TS as:
  32,056,062,599 / 45,000,000,000
  71% in circulation on the 3rd year already seems a bit high.
  Does Cardano have to have a fixed supply?  A perpetual, provable, tamper-proof small stock-to-flow seems best to me.
  Can someone make the decisions behind Cardano's inflation make sense to me?
upvoted_answer: The uncirculated (reserve) coins are distributed over time at a specific percentage rate.  As the reserve decreases in size, the amount distributed each epoch (5 days) will decrease.  At the current percentage rate the reserve will halve approximately every 4-5 years.
  
  Ada has a fixed supply of 45 billion coins
  30 Billion coins were issued/sold during the ICO rounds
  The other 15 Billion coins were placed into a reserve for operation of the network
  Every 5 days (each epoch) the transaction fees and a fixed percentage of the reserve are added to a pot
  A fixed percentage of the epoch's pot is added to the treasury and the rest are distributed as staking rewards
  
  Cardano monetary policy has a more precise explanation.