Alien Worlds lifts Union DAO cap on planet mining rewards to 45%

In Brief:

• Alien Worlds (official site) custodians can now direct up to 45% of their planet’s mining rewards to a wallet of their choice, up from 35%.
• The change applies to the Union DAOs, one for each of the six planets: Eyeke, Kavian, Magor, Veles, Neri and Naron.
• The cap has risen several times since May 2025, when DAOs first got the power to redirect any of their planet’s mining reward pool, and the first limit was 10%.

Alien Worlds has raised the share of planetary mining rewards that Union DAO custodians control. Each planet’s custodians can now send up to 45% of that planet’s mining rewards to a wallet they choose. The previous limit was 35%.

“The Union DAOs now have greater control over mining rewards,” Alien Worlds said in a post on X.

The project said the higher cap gives “each DAO more flexibility to support initiatives that benefit their planet and community.”

What custodians can do with it

The rewards in question come from each planet’s mining reward pool, known as DTAP. Custodians pick the destination wallet. That means a larger share of every planet’s emissions can now go to projects chosen by its governing council instead of flowing straight to players.

In its December 2025 year-in-review, Alien Worlds said the redirected funds could pay for tools, games, events and creative work within a planet. At the time, the cap was 25%.

Custodians evaluate proposals, give feedback and guide projects through to completion, according to Alien Worlds’ Union DAO documentation.

How the cap got here

Until May 2025, all of each planet’s DTAP went directly to miners and landowners. That month, Alien Worlds let planetary DAOs redirect up to 10% of the pool to an account of their choosing, to back new games, initiatives and player-run projects.

By the end of 2025 the limit was 25%. It later reached 35%. With this update it’s 45%.

That’s more than four times the original allowance, in just over a year.

Who sits on the councils

There are six Union DAOs, one per planet. To stand for custodian, a candidate stakes 5,000 Trilium. Under the original rules, the five candidates with the most votes served as custodians for the following week.

Those rules have loosened. Over 2025, Alien Worlds gave each DAO authority to set how many custodians its planet has and to adjust its own election timeframes.

So the group deciding where up to 45% of a planet’s mining rewards go is now sized and scheduled by that planet’s own DAO.

Background

The Union DAO system replaced a model in which each planet’s full mining pool went to the players working it. Each increase in the cap has moved more of that pool under the control of elected custodians.

Before the first change, miners and landowners took 100% of each planet’s DTAP. Under the new ceiling, custodians can direct up to 45% of it to a wallet of their choice.