# VeChain’s Hayabusa Upgrade Ties New VTHO Rewards to Staking

By Simon Yoon

Canonical URL: https://www.tokenpost.com/news/technology/47701
Published: 2026-11-03T13:21:58.000Z
Updated: 2026-11-03T13:21:58.000Z
Section: Technology

> VET holders must stake through StarGate to earn new VTHO. The network burns transaction base fees and sends priority fees to block proposers.

VeChainThor’s Hayabusa upgrade ended automatic VeThor (VTHO) rewards for unstaked VeChain (VET), making network participation necessary for holders to receive newly issued VTHO rewards from the network.

VeChainThor is a public blockchain with use cases including product-origin records and supply-chain traceability. Hayabusa moved VeChainThor to delegated proof of stake in December 2025, with 101 validators responsible for producing blocks.

VET is VeChainThor’s native asset and has a fixed total supply of 86,712,634,466. VTHO pays for transfers and smart-contract execution and has no fixed maximum supply. Under Hayabusa, new VTHO issuance is calculated per block using the total VET staked across the network. A VET balance held without staking no longer earns new VTHO.

Ordinary holders can stake VET through StarGate, receive a staking NFT and delegate it to an active or queued validator. The NFT must mature before it can earn rewards, though paying a VTHO fee can skip the wait. Rewards begin with the validator’s next cycle; cycles last seven, 15 or 30 days. A validator must stake 25 million VET.

Protocol block rewards are split between validators, who receive 30%, and delegators, who receive 70%. Transaction fees follow a separate rule: the base fee is burned, while the priority fee goes to the validator proposing the block.

The two-token design separates the asset used for staking from the token spent on network activity, with the aim of making usage costs easier to forecast. Transactions still operate through a fee market, so the design does not fix costs in dollars.