Tail emission.0.6 XMR, every block.
Monero never stops paying miners. Here is how the reward works, straight from the protocol rules.
plus the fees of the transactions in it
720 blocks at the 2-minute target
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Two phases
Monero started with a smoothly declining reward. Each block’s base reward is the coins that remain of the 264 − 1 atomic-unit cap, divided by 219 (for the 2-minute block target). As coins are mined the remainder shrinks, so the reward shrinks with it.
The protocol puts a floor under that curve: once the formula would pay less than 0.6 XMR, the block pays 0.6 XMR instead. The network reached that floor in June 2022, and from then on every block pays the same base reward, indefinitely. That floor is the tail emission.
Why a tail?
Without it, miners would eventually be paid by fees alone. A fixed subsidy keeps a predictable incentive to secure the chain, and it also replaces coins that are lost over time when people lose their keys.
What it means for supply
The tail adds 157,680 XMR a year at the target block time. Because that number is fixed while the supply keeps growing, the yearly inflation rate keeps falling, a little more every year, without ever reaching zero.
A block can pay slightly less than its base reward if a miner makes it larger than the network’s median block weight; that penalty is burned. Usually a block stays under the median and pays the full amount plus fees.