The Semux core team is pleased to announce that following months of consulting the community and listening to their concerns, 15 million SEM of the initial premine has been burned.
Read all the details in the blog post:
https://medium.com/semux/semux-foundation-burned-15m-sem-of-premine-4f34be96d3f0

Thanks team, epic move! Is there a date for VM release in mainnet already?

Devs wrote in discord that soon there will be a new release with adjusted block rewards.