In Solana, new SOL are minted on a given inflation schedule. These SOL are then distributed to those who "stake" their existing coins: participating in, or delegating to a validator who participates in, the validator of transactions on the Solana blockchain.
In this vein, staking SOL has a positive, dynamic yield. Conversely, the value of unstaked SOL is continuously diluted.
For more information on this system, please refer to the Solana Economics Overview.
A web app for this simulation can be found here.
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This simulation was built with cadCAD, and the dashboard with Streamlit.