First look: STEEM daily inflation changes by year

I was curious about the annual rate of change in the projected amount of New STEEM per day, so I slapped together a new chart to make an estimate.

It's the same information that we've seen before, but presented in a new way. I'll probably add these calculations to my quarterly inflation summary posts in the future, but here's how it appears at first look.

Chart: Annual Change in New STEEM per day

The blue line shows the percentage change from one year to the next from now until 2055. The orange line shows the accumulated change for each year (compared to now, as a baseline).

Unsurprisingly, the annual rate of reduction bottoms out in 2037 at about 27¹/₂%. At that point, the cumulative reduction will be about 73% below today's rate (with basically a full halving from now 'til 2035, and a second running from 2036 to 2037). From now until 2055 (and much further into the future), the rate of daily STEEM production will never be as high as it is today.

Hard numbers can be seen in the following table.

Table: Annual Change in New STEEM per day

Date	Inflation Rate	Supply	New Steem Per Day	Change	% Annual Change	Cumulative Change	%Cumulative Change
02/14/25	0.0606	536,996,695	89,156	0	0.00%	0	0.00%
01/01/26	0.0569	565,489,414	88,154	-1,002	-1.12%	-1,002	-1.12%
01/09/27	0.0526	598,054,065	86,185	-1,969	-2.23%	-2,971	-3.33%
01/09/28	0.0484	628,995,128	83,406	-2,779	-3.22%	-5,750	-6.45%
01/07/29	0.0442	658,767,495	79,774	-3,632	-4.35%	-9,382	-10.52%
01/07/30	0.04	687,060,669	75,294	-4,480	-5.62%	-13,862	-15.55%
01/06/31	0.0358	713,569,139	69,988	-5,306	-7.05%	-19,168	-21.50%
01/06/32	0.0316	737,997,815	63,892	-6,096	-8.71%	-25,264	-28.34%
01/05/33	0.0274	760,067,456	57,057	-6,835	-10.70%	-32,099	-36.00%
01/04/34	0.0232	779,519,970	49,547	-7,510	-13.16%	-39,609	-44.43%
01/04/35	0.019	796,123,417	41,442	-8,105	-16.36%	-47,714	-53.52%
01/03/36	0.0148	809,676,616	32,830	-8,612	-20.78%	-56,326	-63.18%
01/02/37	0.0106	820,013,194	23,814	-9,016	-27.46%	-65,342	-73.29%
01/02/38	0.0095	827,950,582	21,549	-2,265	-9.51%	-67,607	-75.83%
01/01/39	0.0095	835,844,528	21,754	205	0.95%	-67,402	-75.60%
01/01/40	0.0095	843,813,737	21,962	208	0.96%	-67,194	-75.37%
01/08/41	0.0095	852,051,411	22,176	214	0.97%	-66,980	-75.13%
01/08/42	0.0095	860,175,142	22,388	212	0.96%	-66,768	-74.89%
01/07/43	0.0095	868,376,327	22,601	213	0.95%	-66,555	-74.65%
01/07/44	0.0095	876,655,705	22,817	216	0.96%	-66,339	-74.41%
01/05/45	0.0095	885,014,021	23,034	217	0.95%	-66,122	-74.16%
01/05/46	0.0095	893,452,028	23,254	220	0.96%	-65,902	-73.92%
01/04/47	0.0095	901,970,486	23,475	221	0.95%	-65,681	-73.67%
01/04/48	0.0095	910,570,161	23,699	224	0.95%	-65,457	-73.42%
01/03/49	0.0095	919,251,828	23,925	226	0.95%	-65,231	-73.17%
01/02/50	0.0095	928,016,269	24,153	228	0.95%	-65,003	-72.91%
01/02/51	0.0095	936,864,273	24,384	231	0.96%	-64,772	-72.65%
01/01/52	0.0095	945,796,637	24,616	232	0.95%	-64,540	-72.39%
01/09/53	0.0095	955,029,913	24,856	240	0.97%	-64,300	-72.12%
01/08/54	0.0095	964,135,474	25,093	237	0.95%	-64,063	-71.85%
01/08/55	0.0095	973,327,850	25,333	240	0.96%	-63,823	-71.59%

As with all of my inflation projections, this cannot account for things like token burning, or rule/parameter changes by witnesses, so it should be understood as a best guess.

Also, whenever the price of STEEM spends time above the haircut threshold, the rate of production will fall even faster than the values that we see here.