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From Day 1, W3’s model is designed to support strong token price fundamentals and sustainability by ensuring that the majority of distributed tokens are locked in structured staking, while demand for tokens continues to grow through network participation requirements.

Staking plays a crucial role in securing the network, driving adoption, and aligning incentives across all participants. Subnets and their communities rely on a staking mechanism that underpins network functionality and rewards active contributors.

To support long-term sustainability, W3 employs an ongoing emissions strategy:

• Annual Rewards: A significant amount of tokens will be distributed annually to subnet operators (and their communities), encouraging long-term participation and continual network expansion. Critically, these rewards will be performance based, avoiding some of the issues other models have faced.

• Long Term Scaling: Over time, the number of subnets will increase, raising the amount of tokens required as stake, reinforcing network stability and growth.

• Standards and Guidelines: Subnet operators will have predefined guardrails on how much of their allocated tokens must be distributed to community participants, ensuring continuous engagement and incentive alignment.

Increased Demand: As more subnets are created, token demand naturally increases as does value creation, driving price appreciation through higher staking requirements.