1/13 I’ve seen a couple of “burn tokens, premine bad” comments on the $HTR tokenomics. Are these valid concerns that the team should listen to or baseless criticism from impatient investors hoping for a quick pump? Let’s look at facts and arguments. @HathorNetwork

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2/13 Circulating $HTR supply at the moment is 181m with total supply at 869m (∞ due to mining rewards, like ETH). For numbers updated in real-time, see api.economics.hathor.network/status
3/13 1b $HTR coins were premined at the genesis block in January 2020, with the following allocation:
4/13 The team recently burned 20% of the premine, and locked up an additional 18% (360m $HTR in total) for the next 5 years. These vaulted 18% will be re-evaluated and burnt in full or partially if they aren’t deemed necessary for the project's growth and support.
5/13 Emission is quite high now but will be reduced each year until reaching a yearly inflation rate at around 1%. Mined tokens are subject to yearly reward halvings, occurring each year until reaching 8 $HTR per block (32 now).
6/13 Another important counter-inflationary measure is the concept of token lockups when minting custom tokens. For each 100 units of custom tokens minted, 1 $HTR is locked up. So the more projects build on Hathor, the more HTR will be taken out of circulation.
7/13 Being a new L1 in need of adoption, a large amount of the premine has been allocated to ecosystem growth. Tokens are used to pay new hires and advisors, R&D, bounties, listing fees and liquidity, and for buying services from others. $HTR
8/13 My personal opinion is that the argument for token burn is stronger with “simpler”, straight forward ERC projects with a limited use case, where it’s actually possible to predict and map out the need for tokens for the next 1, 2, or 5 years’ time.
9/13 Just for comparison and to illustrate why total supply is mostly a meme when it comes to price:

✔️ $DOT 961m circ, 1042m total/ $27b MC
✔️ $ADA 32b circ, 45b total, $28b MC
✔️ $ETH ∞ total
✔️ $DOGE 128b circ, ∞ total, $6b MC
✔️ $HTR ~800m circ by 2031
10/13 $HTR has so much room to run… Simply saying that premine is bad, burn it, is far too easy without fully understanding a team’s strategy and future plans. Which none of us do. If mass adoption happens who’s to say how a potential token shortage could affect the ecosystem.
11/13 Rather than hoping for another burn at this stage, just to create a temporary sense of confidence and reliability among investors, I choose to look at what the big 🧠 team has delivered so far, and their roadmap.
12/13 Based on that I trust them to be in a much better position than myself to judge what is best for $HTR today, and 5-10 years from now. I’m all for pumps but not at the expense of healthy and long term growth for the Hathor ecosystem.
13/13 So to tokenomics critics (feel free to tag them) and those with experience from other projects—for an L1 POW project with Hathor’s ambitions, and $HTR being a utility token, what are the pro-burn arguments aside from wanting short term pumps?

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15 Feb
1/12 @HathorNetwork offers a unique set of features for both builders and users. Some well known ones, others not so much. Let’s look at why you might want to consider Hathor as the layer 1 solution for your project. $HTR @htrfdt #BuildOnHathor
2/12 Easy tokenization is the obvious one. You create your own token in less than a minute, no coding required. $HTR
3/12 As opposed to ERC tokens, your custom Hathor token is a layer 1 token. It inherits the same features and security as the native token, $HTR, effectively giving your token the same level of security as the #Bitcoin $BTC blockchain.
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1/7 Now is probably a good time to secure your $HTR, and @HathorNetwork wallet is the only one available at the moment. While we wait for @Ledger and others to do the integration, here’s a "cold wallet" DIY.
2/7 The Hathor wallet is perfectly safe, this is just an extra layer of security for the paranoid ones while we wait for hardware options to become available.

PS: If you’re keeping your coins on the exchange you’re doing it wrong.
3/7 Download and install the Hathor wallet for your device (iOS and Android apps are available as well) hathor.network/resources/hath…
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