MultiversX (EGLD)

It wasn’t an easy year. But it was one of the most productive MultiversX has ever had. A brief summary of 2025 🧵 https://t.co/FD15YkSHJ1

Four major protocol releases shipped on mainnet • Spica delivered: – Relayed Transactions v3 – ESDT & EGLD multi-transfers – New Built-in Smart Contract Functions • Andromeda removed finality bottlenecks: – 3× faster finality – 2× faster cross-shard execution – All 400 validators signing blocks • Barnard introduced protocol-level governance and millisecond-precision time across smart contracts. • Staking v5 introduced a sustainable, growth-aware emission system, immediately boosting staking APRs and introducing a new KPI-gated growth fund. Every upgrade passed governance with strong validator and community consensus.

Barnard moved governance onchain 2025 is the year MultiversX became self-governing at the protocol level. • Any wallet can initiate proposals by bonding EGLD • Voting power reflects both staking and liquid positions • Governance is no longer an off-chain coordination exercise This changes how upgrades, economics, and priorities are decided.

New EGLD economics designed for growth A first-of-its-kind governance marathon with open forums, discussions, and debates led to hundreds of amendments to the original proposal resulting in a fundamental change in the economic design. • Tail inflation activated: issuance evolves from the genesis model, offering long-term incentives to keep the network secure • Growth-gated emissions: 40% of issuance unlocks only if ecosystem KPIs are met • Usage-driven rewards: DeFi activity feeds directly into user incentives • Fees reinforce scarcity: builder rewards plus burn tie EGLD supply to real usage Scarcity, security, and growth incentives are now explicitly linked.

An API layer was rebuilt for what’s coming next The public API evolved continuously to support new protocol guarantees: • Explicit, predictable account queries without hidden payloads • Native support for Relayed v3 • GasStation API for fee signaling under load • Millisecond-level timestamps and event indexing • Early Supernova-readiness baked in

Better tools for better building Across JS, Python, CLI, dApp SDKs, and WASM tooling, 2025 was about alignment and ergonomics: • Modular, framework-agnostic SDKs • Native multisig and governance support everywhere • Deterministic gas estimation via simulation • Black-box testing for compiled WASM contracts • Unified EGLD / ESDT payment handling with strong type safety Less guesswork. Better defaults.

Supernova foundations • Millisecond-precision time at protocol and VM level • Event indexing and sorting at scale • Faster finality paths and simplified proofs • Tooling assumptions updated ahead of execution changes Setting up the largest-ever network upgrade.

Quiet but meaningful discipline behind the scenes Alongside shipping new upgrades... • Infrastructure and operations were restructured • Costs were reduced materially by ~75% We're now 10x+ leaner—and faster—than most of our competitors.

What this sets up for 2026 • Supernova: a new genesis moment for the network with instant, hyper-scalable execution • ZK-enabled privacy • New DeFi primitives designed for composability at scale • A tech stack designed to become the fiber network of finance • AI-native use cases across the network

To the builders, validators, researchers, and contributors: Thank you for being here. Thank you for all that you are building. We are looking forward to a great 2026.