The PancakeSwap DeFi community powered by BNB Chain has supported changes to tokenomics, the key of which will be to limit the supply of the CAKE governance token to 750 million coins.
98.8% of votes were cast in favor of the proposal.
The PancakeSwap team said the proposed upgrade would "increase the profitability of IFOs and the profit farming of blocked CAKEs." The developers plan to implement the changes "in the near future".
There are over 296 billion CAKEs in circulation at the time of writing (CoinGecko). It is planned that the issue of the entire volume will end within three years.
The business developer of the project, under the nickname Chef Icy, in a comment to Cointelegraph noted that this period is a conservative estimate based on the issuance of 14.25 tokens per block. In reality, due to regular burning, the effective emission per block is about 10.5 CAKE. Based on this, a full release would take about 4.5 years, Chef Icy estimated.
Recall that the Uniswap platform, which was largely copied by PancakeSwap, issued the UNI token in 2020 immediately with a limited issue of 1 million coins.