Once every month PancakeSwap holds a CAKE emission reduction vote, in an effort to speed up our mission to become emission neutral.

# What does emission neutral mean?
Simple, the goal is for more CAKE to leave circulation than the amount of CAKE that's produced.

# Why do we want to reduce CAKE emissions? 
In the short term, reducing the rewards may lower farms’ APR a little initially. However, if you’re a long-term CAKE hodler, you’ll understand the potential effect to the price that reducing the amount of CAKE in circulation may have. **Supply and demand**.

CAKE emissions are **20 CAKE per block** at the moment, which break down as per the image below.

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# At present, CAKE is also burned in the following ways:

- **0.05%** of every trade made on PancakeSwap V2
- **100%** of CAKE sent to the Dev address
- **100%** of CAKE raised in IFOs
- **100%** of CAKE spent on Profile Creation and NFT minting
- **20%** of CAKE spent on lottery tickets
- **45,000** CAKE per day (historically assigned to the lottery)
- **3%** of every Prediction markets round is used to buy CAKE for burning
- **2%** of every yield harvest in the Auto CAKE Pool

That's not enough,  not yet anyway, that's why **there are more on the way**. 

# Here's what we're proposing for this time around:
You can vote for any one of these three options!
# ❌ No change:
- 10 CAKE per block go to yield farms
- Total emissions = 20 CAKE per block (including Syrup Pool)

# 🔥 0.5 CAKE per block (5%) reduction to farm rewards:
- 9.5 CAKE per block go to yield farms
- New total emissions = 19.5 CAKE per block (including Syrup Pool)

# 🔥🔥 1 CAKE per block (10%) reduction to farm rewards:
-  9 CAKE per block go to yield farms
- New total emissions = 19 CAKE per block (including Syrup Pool)





# CAST YOUR VOTE BELOW AND LETS BURN SOME CAKE! 

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