What is Dfinity's economic model? | Different "Dfinity" word stickers

The initial issuance of ICP is 469,213,710, and the specific distribution is: 9.5% early contributors; 24.72% seed round investors; 6.85% strategic investors; 4.75% pre-sale round investors; 1.25% community airdrops; 52.93% foundation funding, team and partners. The total amount of ICP is not fixed at 469 million. Subsequent nodes and governance participants who participate in contributing hardware resources will also be rewarded with ICP tokens. This part of the reward rules has not yet been disclosed.

From this point of view, Dfinity’s economic model is an inflation model, but it also has a deflation model: one is that as a governance participant, a certain amount of ICP needs to be pledged, and the decision-making weight of the governance participant is comprehensively judged by the amount of pledge and time; the other is Applications based on Dfinity need to convert ICP into Cycles (stable currency against the standard currency) as the fuel for application operation, similar to the Gas fee on Ethereum, which forms a deflation model in which ICP is continuously consumed. It is worth mentioning that if the Dfinity ecological application continues to develop in the future, a large number of ICP will be exchanged for Cycles, and once the volume exceeds the speed of ICP issuance, the scarcity of ICP will also increase.

With the launch of the Dfinity mainnet, the initial ICP token will be released, but it will be released linearly through at least 6 months of lockup. The specific release rules need to be confirmed through an official release.