Will Monero ever stop being mined?

No—Monero has no planned end to mining under its current rules. Its ongoing reward, called tail emission, gives miners 0.6 XMR for each new block, with a block arriving roughly every two minutes. That reward is designed to continue indefinitely, rather than stop after a fixed number of coins.

Why Monero keeps creating coins

Monero’s main release of coins reached roughly 18.13 million XMR around June 2022. Instead of ending new coin rewards at that point, the network moved into tail emission.

You can think of tail emission as a small, steady payment for keeping the network running. Miners use computing power to help confirm payments and protect the shared record of transactions, called the blockchain. The miner who successfully adds a block receives newly created XMR, plus the fees attached to the transactions in that block.

Under the current rules:

• Each block provides a base reward of 0.6 XMR.
• Blocks arrive about two minutes apart on average.
• That works out to roughly 432 newly created XMR per day.

Those are targets and averages, not a promise that blocks will arrive on an exact schedule.

There is no final Monero coin

Monero does not have a fixed maximum supply. Because tail emission continues, there is no scheduled “last XMR” for miners to produce.

That does not mean the supply grows faster and faster. The amount added each year stays roughly constant, while the total supply gets larger. As a result, the new coins represent a smaller percentage of the existing supply over time.

This percentage is often called supply inflation. Monero’s supply inflation gradually falls toward zero, but it does not actually reach zero while tail emission continues.

That describes the number of coins—not their price or buying power. A slower-growing supply does not guarantee that your XMR will become more valuable.

Why keep paying miners forever?

Mining costs money. Your computer uses electricity, produces heat, and experiences wear. An ongoing block reward gives miners a reason to keep contributing computing power.

Without newly created coins, miners would need to rely on transaction fees alone. Monero’s design keeps a base reward available even when fee income is low.

That does not guarantee you will earn a profit. Your results still depend on your equipment, electricity cost, competition from other miners, and XMR’s market value. Tail emission means a reward remains available to compete for—not that every miner gets a profitable share.

Could mining still stop in practice?

“Designed to continue indefinitely” is not the same as “guaranteed to operate forever.”

Monero still needs people to run mining software and participate in the network. If all miners stopped, new blocks would stop too. Its mining difficulty—the measure of how hard it is to find a valid block—adjusts every block as computing power changes. It cannot create blocks without miners.

A future change accepted by the network could also alter the rules. But under the rules in place as of 2026, there is no scheduled mining shutdown or end to block rewards.

The bottom line

You do not need to worry about Monero reaching a final coin and automatically ending mining. Tail emission keeps new XMR rewards flowing indefinitely under the current rules. Whether mining is worthwhile for you remains a separate question from whether Monero will keep rewarding miners.