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# Tokenomics: Ensuring Token Sustainability

## What Makes the Token Sustainable?

**Holding the token is profitable, and here’s why:**

* **Utility**: Our token is backed by educational products that can be purchased with it. This creates regular token burning, reducing supply and increasing value.
* **Limited Emission**: The token has a limited supply, ensuring scarcity rather than infinite inflation.
* **Burning Mechanisms**: The project employs a multifaceted network of burning mechanisms, minimizing the token’s circulation on the open market and enhancing its value.
* **Increased demand for tokens** for in-game purchases as the number of users grows.
* **Stable and Balanced Economic Model:** The model includes vesting periods, block periods, and a controlled release of tokens when listing on centralized exchanges (see table).

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* **AI projects** are trending nowadays, tokens from such projects tend to have a long-term value.

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## $TTS Token Utility

**Ways to Use $TTS:**

1. **Education**:

* Purchase EdTech products: Access courses, meetups, marathons, programs, trainings, intensives, support communities, and updates.
* Rewards and donations for course creators.

2. **Mystery Cave Platform:**

* In-app gaming mechanics.
* Purchases in the Mystery Cave store using $TTS.
* Acquire modifiers.
* Upgrade NFT Worried Meerkats to higher levels using $TTS.
* Buy lottery tickets.

3. **WEB3 Mechanisms:**

* Minting.
* Creating new NFTs on the Mystery Cave platform.
* Renting out NFTs.
* Staking: Earn $TTS tokens by staking NFT Worried Meerkats.
* Staking $TTS for additional rewards.

4. **Advertising:**

* Ads
* Token Utility
* Purchase in-project advertising for advertisers.

5. **Subscriptions:**

* Subscriptions
* Token Utility
* Pay for content subscriptions using $TTS.

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