The team determined allocations based on industry reports, peer analysis and stress tests, and finds that the current distribution incorporates the best balance among funding size, incentives, unlock schedule and ecosystem.

At its core, the token mining incentives structure has a duration of 4 years and highest allocation of 30%, followed by the team/core contributors and investors/advisors, and ecosystem/genesis incentives.

Please view the link below for a comprehensive tokenomics and release schedule for $AARK.

References to Distribution Design

• Looking into projects that have done fundraises with investors, token allocation percentage averages around 19% allocated for investors.
• Source: https://www.liquifi.finance/post/token-vesting-and-allocation-benchmarks

• Common allocations in the DeFi space were studied and reflected on to the Aark tokenomics, especially regarding allocations to the Core Team(23%), Eco/Treasury(16%) which consisted of some of the largest shares.
• Incentives(49%) were optimized and decreased by about one-fourth taking into account that perp DEXs are revenue generating models that require less subsidies.