# 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 --- # Agent Instructions: Querying This Documentation If you need additional information that is not directly available in this page, you can query the documentation dynamically by asking a question. Perform an HTTP GET request on the current page URL with the `ask` query parameter: ``` GET https://whitepaper.dino-wars.com/tokenomics/tokens-utility.md?ask= ``` The question should be specific, self-contained, and written in natural language. The response will contain a direct answer to the question and relevant excerpts and sources from the documentation. Use this mechanism when the answer is not explicitly present in the current page, you need clarification or additional context, or you want to retrieve related documentation sections.