Las Vegas, NV – Oct. 30, 2025: Xandeum, Solana’s scalable, smart contract-native storage layer, today announced the handover of its rewards mechanism governance to the Xandeum DAO, marking a pivotal shift toward full community control.
This transition follows the completion of Reward Season 4 on October 29, 2025, capping a year of automated quarterly distributions that rewarded participants across staking, liquidity provision, node operations, and ecosystem engagement.
Since the $XAND token listing on Oct. 29, 2024, Xandeum has operated its rewards program on a structured, autopilot basis through four three-month seasons. Over this period, the ecosystem distributed significant incentives to foster network security, storage provision, and participation. Key highlights include:
- Liquid Staking Rewards: Participants staking SOL for xandSOL earned yields combining traditional block rewards with emerging storage fees, reaching a peak total value locked (TVL) of $8 million and an average 15% APY. A six-week intensive program in late 2024 alone distributed over 34 million $XAND tokens.
- DAO Staking: Locking $XAND for 30+ days yielded a consistent 16% APY, with quarterly claims boosting governance influence and long-term alignment.
- Liquidity Pool: Providers contributing SOL/$XAND to liquidity pools earned trading fees supplemented by bonus $XAND rewards, incentivizing market depth and ecosystem participation.
- Points Rewards: A points-based system tracked community activities – such as social engagement, quests, and platform interactions – for leaderboard rankings and eligibility for $XAND airdrops.
- Node Operations: Devnet validators (vNodes) and storage providers (pNodes) received allocations from the Xandeum Foundation Rewards Program (XFRP) and Delegation Program (XFDP). Early pNode adopters will benefit from optional NFT multipliers, including recent Titan NFTs offering up to 11x boosts on future storage income (STOINC) on mainnet.
These mechanisms supported Xandeum’s core infrastructure milestones, including the Herrenberg release for real-time pNode monitoring, a live on-chain storage prototype enabling read/write/delete operations, and strategic partnerships to expand web3 data ecosystems.
The whole rewards program emphasized low entry barriers – such as 0.01 SOL minimums for staking – while prioritizing performant contributions to scale the network toward exabyte-level capacity.
With Season 4 concluded, the Xandeum Foundation is transferring all authority for future seasons to the DAO, governed exclusively by $XAND token holders.
A formal proposal for Reward Season 5 is slated for imminent submission, inviting holders to vote on parameters like allocation splits, yield adjustments, and new incentives.
Unclaimed rewards from prior seasons only remain available for three months post-distribution before reversion to the DAO treasury. Season 3 rewards are to be reclaimed as soon as Season 4 rewards go live.
“This handover represents a deliberate evolution from foundation-led bootstrapping to true self-governance,” said Bernie Blume, Founder of Xandeum.
Investors and stakeholders can review full tokenomics and historical distributions at xandeum.network/xand-tokenomics and xandeum.network/rewards. DAO voting will occur via the official platform at dao.xandeum.network, with resources for new participants available in the Xandeum Discord community.
About XandeumXandeum is building Solana’s first scalable, smart contract-native storage layer, enabling exabyte-scale capacity with seamless random access for Web3 applications. Powered by the $XAND token, the ecosystem supports decentralized validators, storage providers, and liquid staking to create a robust foundation for on-chain data sovereignty. For more information, visit xandeum.network.
Source: https://beincrypto.com/xandeum-dao-rewards-governance/
