The VeChain Renaissance 2025 Roadmap: Evolving Greatness
Stepping into 2025, we have an immense task ahead of us. The VeChain Renaissance represents a wholesale reimagining of our protocol, delivering more attractive tokenomics, a superior VTHO consumption/distribution model, and building towards seamless interoperability with JSON RPC integration and full EVM compatibility.
See previous VeChain Renaissance articles to learn more about the planned tokenomics upgrades, or EVM compatibility/JSON RPC integration.
The ambitious initiative involves three phases - Galactica, Hayabusa and Intergalactic — whose cosmic nomenclature represent of our grandiose objectives.
Read on to learn more about the milestones set for 2025:
Q1: Foundations of Galactica
Galactica VIPs Submitted: The VeChain Improvement Proposals (VIPs) relating to the Galactica hardfork will be submitted by the core protocol team — beginning work on new, core technical elements, including the dynamic gas fee model and Shanghai EVM upgrade.
Galactica Testnet: At this time, the Galactica Testnet will launch, offering developers and dApp builders time to experiment with its technical features ahead of mainnet integration.
All-stakeholder Voting: A critical step in VeChainThor governance — an all-stakeholder voting event will take place to approve Galactica’s merge with mainnet. We warmly invite Authority/X/Economic Node holders to participate.
Q2: Galactica Meets Mainnet
Galactica Mainnet Implementation: During Q2, Galactica will transition to mainnet, introducing the Dynamic Fee model and Shanghai EVM Upgrades to VeChainThor.
New Economic Node Tiers Introduced: In this period, technical elements of VeChain’s new Node/staking model will launch— a development that welcomes the introduction of new tiers of Economic Node. Users will be able to stake collateral in anticipation of their arrival. No new X Node tiers will be created.
Q3: Launching Hayabusa
Hayabusa VIPs & Hayabusa Testnet launch: VIPs relating to the Hayabusa phase of VeChain Renaissance will be submitted—a stage that introduces new tokenomics, staking opportunities, an improved VTHO consumption/distribution model, and consensus mechanism changes. Its goal is to greatly improve the economic attractiveness of the VeChainThor, reward active participation, and further decentralise the blockchain.
Hayabusa All-Stakeholder Voting: In Q3, Node holders will again be invited to participate in an all-stakeholder vote to approve Hayabusa, underscoring our commitment to decentralized governance. More granular details on tokenomics will be provided in advance to ensure full transparency ahead of voting — stay tuned for subsequent updates.
Q4: A New World: The Hayabusa Era
Hayabusa Mainnet: The launch of Hayabusa delivers many fundamental changes to VeChainThor, including a fundamentally revamped reward model to actively incentivise staking, building, and other forms of ecosystem activity. It also sees VTHO distributed in a more intelligent way, with greatly reduced overall issuance.
Upgraded Node System: The launch of the updated Node system will offer users new opportunities for staking — options such as contributing to validator Nodes, as well as staking as Economic or X-Nodes. A new VTHO issuance curve model ensures all VTHO generated by the ecosystem is directly awarded to individuals who actively contribute to the network.
2025 — A Year of Change
Like the upheavals we are seeing in the evolving crypto landscape, the VeChain Renaissance represents a significant, and highly positive transition for the VeChainThor blockchain and its stakeholders, too.
As we move through the months ahead, you can expect many communications, Spaces, team updates and more, allowing you to follow along and participate as the journey unfolds.
Stay tuned for more updates on the VeChain Renaissance by following our X (formerly Twitter) page, and stay abreast of progress as we continue to deliver excellence throughout 2025 and beyond — as we continue to spearhead real world adoption across our various initiatives, from business applications to the VeBetter ecosystem.
About VeChain
Founded in 2015, VeChain built a world leading enterprise smart contract platform, VeChainThor, helping deliver blockchain adoption apps to hundreds of enterprise partners.
Building on this expertise, VeChain, in close partnership with Boston Consulting Group, launched the ‘Better’ ecosystem — comprised of sustainability apps that use tokenization and incentivization to reward users, businesses and other stakeholders for sustainable actions.
To learn more, including how you can build apps of your own, grants, documentation and more, visit vechain.org — or vebetter.com to explore.
