# MEC

MEC is the native token of Meta Earth, with a total supply of 20 billion tokens. Out of these, 10 billion tokens are permanently locked within the network, while the remaining 10 billion tokens are released through a mechanism that halves the supply annually. This rule will be encoded into the genesis block.

* The initial 10 billion MEC tokens are permanently locked through staking, roughly equivalent to the world's total population, ensuring that each individual has a corresponding MEC token. These tokens cannot be unstaked, traded, or spent.
* The other 10 billion MEC tokens are generated exclusively through staking MEC.

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Upon the launch of the ME Network mainnet, this rule will officially take effect. According to the encoding rules, the total circulating supply of MEC in the entire network is 10 billion tokens. In the first year, 5 billion tokens will be released. The earlier a user obtains an ME ID, the more MEC they can acquire. For users without an ME ID, the corresponding released MEC will be allocated to Meta Earth’s Global Network Treasury.

