### I Realized the Emission Schedule Was Changing How People Behaved
A nights ago I was looking at OpenLedger activity and I saw something that stuck with me.
Nobody was asking when the next surprise unlock was coming.
This seems normal in areas but not in crypto.
Most crypto ecosystems I have seen start to have an issue where people stop trusting the token flow.
Rewards change suddenly. Extra supply shows up out of nowhere.
Early contributors become exit liquidity before they even realize what is happening.
So people in these communities start to behave
They do short term farming and fast rotations.
They have no patience.
OpenLedger feels different because the emission schedule is out in the open.
People know what to expect, at mostly.
They can plan before they commit their time or data.
I think this changes how people think more than any tokenomics spreadsheets can show.
I saw one contributor talking about whether his datasets would make sense in six months instead of wondering how fast he could sell his rewards.
It is a thing but it is important.
The fixed schedule also creates pressure though.
If people are not using OpenLedger much as new tokens are being made then just being transparent is not enough to keep the system safe.
New tokens are still being added to the network every day whether people are using it or not.
This is what I keep thinking about.
OpenLedger is betting that people will want to use the data again and that will make the emissions worthwhile.
Not because of hype. Because people will use it over and over.
Maybe this will work.
Maybe it will fail like most systems do when people care more about the rewards than the product.
It is too early to know for sure.
At least, with OpenLedger the rules are clear before we start.