The Vana Foundation said expanded staking under the Vega upgrade is now complete and has released a new paper outlining VANA token economics. The foundation also pointed to a public dashboard that tracks network reads, fee income, buybacks, burns and token supply, with on-chain records behind the reported figures.

The upgrade sets out how fees generated by data access on the network are shared, while also changing how staking operates. Existing stakers now face a deadline to move their positions into the new pool structure if they want to continue earning rewards.

Protocol sets fixed split for network fees

Vana describes itself as a network for moving personal data with the permission of the person it belongs to. Under its fee model, an application that reads a person’s data after receiving permission pays one cent for each scope read.

Those fees are distributed by protocol rule. According to the foundation, 60% goes to stakers through staking pools, 20% is used to purchase and burn VANA, and the remaining 20% is directed to ecosystem development. The foundation said each buyback and burn is published together with its transaction hash.

Expanded staking moves to three pools

With the Vega changes now live, staking operates through three staking pools, each carrying a 5% operator commission. The foundation said staking rewards come from network fees, accrue to the staked position and can be claimed as they accrue.

Users with existing staked positions can move those positions into one of the three pools in a single transaction at stake.vana.org. The deadline to make that move is midnight UTC on 31 October 2026. Vana said principal may still be withdrawn at any time and is not subject to that deadline, but positions that are not moved by the cutoff will stop earning rewards after 31 October.

Foundation publishes token economics materials

Alongside the staking announcement, the foundation published a paper titled VANA: The Asset Behind an Open Data Economy and said a whitepaper addendum, The Vega Upgrade: Data Portability and Transformations, is also available at token.vana.org.

The foundation said total VANA supply and release schedules are unchanged. It also highlighted the token dashboard at token.vana.org as a source for published figures on reads, fees, buybacks, burns and supply.

Usage figures and the next confirmed step

As of 28 September 2026, applications on the network had produced 2,937,447 verified reads, according to the foundation. Art Abal, managing director of the Vana Foundation, said each read is a paid transaction and that the fee split is written into the protocol and published on-chain.

The next confirmed milestone for current stakers is the 31 October 2026 migration deadline. By that point, existing positions need to be moved into one of the new pools to keep receiving rewards, while withdrawals of principal remain available without a deadline.

Source: dailyhodl.com