Circulating Supply

At the time of writing, the amount of Lynx released to the public via the earned reward to miners is 77,872,268,736.

The Lynx miner receives 1 Lynx + fees with each block. Therefore, a healthy block time results in ~280 new Lynx + fees daily to the circulating supply.

The top two known wallets contain stolen coins from a hack before the current team took control of the project. The amount in the largest wallet totals 16,377,591,933, and the second is 1,610,095,400.

Since these coins are locked from spending, the total circulating supply is 59,884,542,893.

It is well understood that since the Lynx project has a genesis block over ten years old, many Lynx have been lost. A conservative approximation is that approximately 40 billion Lynx are currently in circulation, with more aggressive estimates as low as approximately 25 billion Lynx.

Note that Lynx is a deflationary coin due to its data storage utility. Using Clevver (and other independently maintained applications), Lynx coins are provably burned to store data directly on the blockchain. As data storage increases, more coins are burned than created each day. When the crossover remains stable, the number of circulating Lynx will decrease over time, not increase.