# 5.3.1. Conditional Decentralized Minting and Deflation Metarun has the potential to grow on a large scale. This could potentially create a need to mint additional tokens for sustaining the ecosystem. The minting mechanism will be decentralized by using smart contracts and constructed to reduce the impact on the token price to a minimum, exclude the risk of exploits and hacks, and add an adequate number of tokens to circulation. The total supply of $MRUN tokens is capped to 1 billion i,e, there will be no minting if the supply reaches the max supply of 1 billion $MRUN tokens. The minting will work in the following way: * The ecosystem development fund emits tokens into the system through pool rewards only. * If the fund dips below 25%, it is replenished by additional minting. * It replenishes the Ecosystem fund in 5% increments per hour until it reaches 70%. * The platform will circulate tokens back into the ecosystem development fund, which can be later used as follows;\ a. Burned \ b. Spend on Project development \ c. Distribute as rewards \ d. Sent to Treasury funds.\ \ This system is subject to change as the project evolves. --- # Agent Instructions: Querying This Documentation If you need additional information that is not directly available in this page, you can query the documentation dynamically by asking a question. Perform an HTTP GET request on the current page URL with the `ask` query parameter: ``` GET https://doc.metarun.game/metarun-economy/5.3-usdmrun-token-economics/5.3.1.-conditional-decentralized-minting-and-deflation.md?ask= ``` The question should be specific, self-contained, and written in natural language. The response will contain a direct answer to the question and relevant excerpts and sources from the documentation. Use this mechanism when the answer is not explicitly present in the current page, you need clarification or additional context, or you want to retrieve related documentation sections.