Revenue Model

The network has varied revenue sources:

1. A portion of publishing and access fees paid by data contributors to publish in datanets.

2. Datanet lockup fees — datanets must lock 20k REPPO to spin up a datanet. Fifty percent remains locked while the datanet is live, and 50% goes to the network. Part of that is burned, and the rest goes to incentivize datanets and datanet stakers.

3. Datanet emissions tax — datanet owners seed their datanet either with REPPO or their native token. If they seed in REPPO, there is no tax. If they seed in their native token, a 15% tax is collected and sent to the Foundation treasury.

Any REPPO bought on the market and seeded acts as direct revenue for REPPO holders. All tax revenue from emissions goes to the treasury, contributing to protocol operations and buybacks.

In V2, the majority of publishing fees and access fees go to the datanet owner, minus a small network fee deducted from the total fees accrued by the datanet each epoch. These fees can either be in USDC or the native token.