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- Hayabusa, the second stage of VeChain’s 2025 roadmap, has officially kicked off following community approval.
- One of the key changes centers on how VTHO is generated, with the full mainnet rollout expected by the end of December 2025.
VeChain’s Renaissance upgrade is capturing community attention, bringing a three-phase plan, Galactica, Hayabusa, and Intergalactic, designed to elevate scalability, bolster decentralization, and address regulatory requirements.
On August 18, Crypto News Flash reported that voting on the Hayabusa phase had officially begun. Now, VeChain has confirmed in an X post that the community has approved the upgrade, which is set to go live in early September. If all goes according to plan, the mainnet launch will follow by the end of December 2025.
Hayabusa officially passed all-stakeholder voting! 🎉
The second, most radical phase of VeChain Renaissance is now officially underway, as we prepare to migrate consensus models from POA > DPOS, and overhaul $VTHO generation and distribution mechanics.
With these upgrades, we… pic.twitter.com/3yAx2x17Sj
— VeChain (@vechainofficial) August 25, 2025
The team added, “The Hayabusa testnet will follow in a few weeks, allowing devs time to try out the new mechanics – stay tuned for details and timelines! We thank you for taking part in the vote, exercising your governance rights, and helping us propel VeChain onwards towards mainstream adoption and its next growth phase.”
A Look at Hayabusa
With Hayabusa, Vechain is moving away from its old Proof of Authority (PoA) system, where only a handful of authority nodes validated transactions, and adopting a more community-driven Delegated Proof of Stake (DPoS) model. This shift opens the door for everyday token holders, who can now delegate their VET to validators and play a direct role in securing the network.
To make participation worthwhile, Hayabusa introduces a tiered reward system: validators earn double rewards, X-Node delegators get 1.5×, and Economic Node delegators receive the standard rate. The idea is simple: reward those who actively contribute, while discouraging passive holding.
Another change is how VTHO generation works. Instead of every VET holder automatically earning VTHO, only those who stake or delegate their tokens will now generate it. By tying rewards to active involvement, VeChain is cutting down on inflation and making the system more sustainable for long-term growth.
VeChain’s upgrade keeps the number of validators capped at 101, but with an important twist: anyone holding 25 million VET can now join the queue to become a validator through a first-in, first-out system. Rewards are also being rebalanced, with 30% going to validators and 70% distributed to delegators, making participation more attractive for the broader community.
As we have explained before, VeChain Renaissance is also set to transform tokenomics. The base transaction fee will be completely burned, while VTHO inflation is projected to drop by 72.2%. This move builds on initiatives like the StarGate platform, launched on July 1 to boost staking participation, backed by a 5.48 billion VTHO reward pool worth about $15 million at the time.
The upgrade also builds on Galactica’s fee-burning mechanism, which permanently removes part of every transaction, whether it’s deploying a smart contract, minting an NFT, or simply transferring assets, helping ease supply pressures over time.
Once Hayabusa is complete, the Renaissance will move into its final stage, the Intergalactic Phase, where the spotlight shifts to scalability and long-term sustainability.
Even with these technical milestones, VeChain has continued to attract positive attention from researchers and industry analysts. Many remain bullish, with some projecting that VET could climb toward $1, up from its current $0.02434.
In the short term, however, the token has faced headwinds, slipping 4.5% in the past day as trading volume fell 28% to $126 million.
