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# Usage of Token

**Governance**

The most fundamental function of tokens is community governance, representing power relations and voting within the ecosystem.

**Rewards**

Providing computing power, ecosystem development.

**Transactions**

Purchasing/consuming computing power, decentralized application payments.

**Staking**

Validator/Smart router/Computing nodes stability margin.