The term emission, or emission rate, refers to how often new cryptocurrencies (or tokens) are minted. Whenever a new block has been created, a set amount of tokens are minted and distributed to, for example, predefined locations such as farms or staking pools.
For example, when we look at decentralized exchange Pancakeswap, its emission rate per block is as followed:
- Emission: 40 CAKE
- Burned: -21 CAKE
- Effective Emission: ~19 CAKE
Its emission rate per day is:
- Emission: 1,152,000 CAKE
- Burned: -650,800 CAKE
- Effective Emission: ~501,200 CAKE
Decentralized exchange Sushiswap has set the following emission rate for its SUSHI token:
