Over 90% of newer crypto investors do not realize that
$ETH has no hard supply cap and can theoretically be minted forever.
It is incredibly frustrating to hold an asset for years only to realize the tokenomics can change, diluting your bag. Many traders buy into assets without checking if the contract owner can arbitrarily print more tokens.
In smart contract development, when a creator renounces a contract, they give up the ability to modify the code or mint new tokens. For most smaller tokens, an unrenounced contract is a massive red flag because a developer can just print more supply and dump it on the market. With
$ETH , it is a bit different because supply is controlled by network consensus rather than a single admin key, but the risk of protocol upgrades changing issuance rates still rests with a small group of core developers.
If you look at the on-chain data, Ethereum supply actually inflated by over 50,000 tokens during a recent quiet month because transaction fees were too low to burn the newly minted supply. Understanding whether a project has a hard cap like
$BTC or a dynamic, developer-controlled issuance model is crucial if you want to avoid holding a leaky bucket during market downturns.
Do you think major protocols should be forced to lock their supply caps permanently?
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