# Tokens utility

### Token Value from Protocol Economy

    1️⃣ **Buy-backs:** up to 50% of protocol income is used to buy DINW tokens on the market.

    2️⃣ **Burns:** governance can vote to burn up to 25% of bought back tokens.

    3️⃣ **Staking Rewards:** governance can vote that up to 50% of market bought tokens are distributed to stakers.

    4️⃣ **Locks:** staked tokens require a 16-day cooldown for exiting, and bypassing this cooldown carries an 18% fee on the principal stake. Up to 50% of the cooldown fees are placed into a lottery pool, divided among 2 stakers biweekly.

    5️⃣ **Locks of unvested tokens:** unvested tokens can be locked till for a certain period. Participants will receive up to 100% more staking rewards and unique items

    6️⃣ **Liquidity Incentives:** LP tokens get a 50% higher weight in staking rewards.

### Token Value in Protocol Usage

    1️⃣ **Skills:** unlocking new skill slots will open player new mechanics which can optimize game strategy and increase a chance to take first places with higher prices

    2️⃣ **Ladder:** weekly ladder will incentivize players to compete

    3️⃣ Unlocking new characters for changing the game strategy, opening new activities. And that leads to the necessity to get new slot for each new character

    4️⃣ **Governance -** voting for the correction of the main parameters of the protocol and the emission of tokens