---
id: #368-token-economics
title: Token Economics
status: research
lead-contributor: jarrad
contributors:
    - carl
    - barry
    - corey
budget:
- actual: xxx
- estimate: yyy
- currency: ETH/USD/SNT
---

# Swarm proposal

## Summary and Goal(s)

To model the Status Network token economy based on current SNT use-cases.
The goal is to model the SNT value potential for investment, as well as inform design decisions.

## Communication
(required)
`status channel (same as swarm id)`: [#368-token-economics](https://get.status.im/chat/public/368-token-economics)
`sync frequency`: Weekly Sync

## Research
Completion by end of March, 2019

Barry has already made several models here:
https://beta.observablehq.com/@bgits

And we have started collecting some empirical growth data.

## Specification

> do after `Research`

(required)
`timebox specification (approx)`

(optional)
`user stories`, `architecture`, `designs`, `PoC`

## Implementation

(required)
`timebox implementation (approx)`

> do after `Specification`

> All swarm contributors should test and break the implementation, especially developers

(required)
`document progress`

(optional)
`townhall demo`

## Maintenance

`lead-contributor`,`post-mortems`

## Copyright

Copyright and related rights waived via [CC0](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/).