Disclaimer: This is not financial advice. Please do your own research. This article is based on publicly available information and assumptions where information is not available (e.g. future use of ICON network).

TL;DR: I appreciate the feedback from my last article, “ICON Inflation Demystified.” I received overwhelmingly positive feedback along with some suggestions of areas to improve.

In this article, I present a simpler and broader view of inflation rewards. The resulting data is based on % of circulating supply staked, ranging from 0 to 100%. I removed ICON transaction effects, as it is impossible to accurately guess what these will be in the future since the ICON decentralized network has not even launched yet. Transactions will lower inflation, leading to a higher value increase through staking, so the data presented below are the WORSE-CASE, given the scenarios, as inflation will go down with every ICX transaction. Even without transaction fees lowering inflation, if 50% of circulating supply is staked, we will see an overall increase of our ICX value by at least 8.15% (calculated by taking the rewards of staking ICX and then subtracting the ICX inflation effects). The graph below shows the results described in this article (follow the orange curve to see ICX rewards: the annual % increase of ICX staked. Follow the green curve to see an overall gain in ICX value: ICX rewards - the ICON inflation percentage). The graph contains three categories: