Las Vegas, NV – October 30, 2025: Xandeum, Solana’s scalable smart contract native storage layer, today announced a pivotal transition to full community control, handing over the governance of its reward mechanism to the Xandeum DAO.
This transition follows the completion of Rewards Season 4 on October 29, 2025, capping a year of automated quarterly distributions that reward participants through staking, liquidity provision, node operations, and ecosystem engagement.
Since the listing of the $XAND token on October 29, 2024, Xandeum has operated its rewards program on a structured autopilot basis through four seasons of three months. Over this period, the ecosystem provided network security, storage, and distributed significant incentives to encourage participation. Key highlights include:
Liquid Staking Rewards: Participants who staked SOL on xandSOL earned a combination of traditional block rewards and new storage fees, reaching a peak total value locked (TVL) of $8 million and an average APY of 15%. Over 34 million $XAND tokens were distributed during the 6-week intensive program in late 2024 alone. DAO Staking: Lock $XAND for over 30 days and earn a consistent 16% APY with quarterly billing for stronger governance influence and long-term alignment. Liquidity Pool: Providers who contribute SOL/$XAND to the liquidity pool will earn trading fees supplemented by bonus $XAND rewards, incentivizing market depth and ecosystem participation. Points Rewards: A points-based system tracked community activity such as social engagement, quests, and platform interactions to qualify for leaderboard rankings and $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 adopters of pNode will benefit from optional NFT multipliers, including the recent Titan NFT, which boosts future storage income on mainnet (STOINC) by up to 11x.
These mechanisms supported Xandeum’s core infrastructure milestones, including the Herrenberg release for real-time pNode monitoring, a live on-chain storage prototype to enable read/write/delete operations, and strategic partnerships to expand the Web3 data ecosystem.
The overall rewards program emphasized low barriers to entry, such as a minimum 0.01 SOL for staking, while prioritizing performance contributions to scale the network towards exabyte-level capacity.
As Season 4 has concluded, the Xandeum Foundation has transferred all rights regarding future seasons to the DAO, which will be exclusively managed by $XAND token holders.
A formal proposal for Rewards Season 5 will be submitted soon, inviting holders to vote on parameters such as allocation splits, yield adjustments, and new incentives.
Unclaimed rewards from previous seasons will only be available for 3 months after distribution before being returned to the DAO Treasury. Season 3 rewards will be collected as soon as Season 4 rewards begin.
“This handover represents a deliberate evolution from foundation-led bootstrapping to true autonomy,” said Xandium founder Bernie Bloom.
“Over the past year, our community has proven its ability to drive growth through active participation. By allowing $XAND holders to shape Season 5 and beyond, we are not only distributing rewards, but also strengthening Xandeum’s role as a secure, scalable, and scalable storage layer for community-owned Solana dApps.”
Investors and interested parties can view the complete tokenomics and historical distribution at xandeum.network/xand-tokenomics and xandeum.network/rewards. DAO voting will take place through the official platform at dao.xandeum.network, and resources for new participants will be available in the Xandeum Discord community.
About Xandeum Xandeum is building Solana’s first scalable smart contract native storage layer, enabling exabyte-scale capacity with seamless random access for Web3 applications. The ecosystem powered by the $XAND token supports decentralized validators, storage providers, and liquid staking, creating a solid foundation for on-chain data sovereignty. For more information, please visit xandeum.network.
