# MF Mirror Post 1.8

## $ROBOT

### Overview of Token Evolution
One of the most exciting aspects about $ROBOT is the success and appreciation in value it has enjoyed despite a complete lack of any any marketing or "shilling" of it. At the present time, the primary function and purpose behind $ROBOT is to create consumer and community incentive in purchasing our products or collaborating with us on a merch drop and value-aligning each step of the supply chain process.

In regards to the customer -- they are rewarded with a 42% "rebate" of the value of their purchase in $ROBOT. They can use their rewards to participate in our ecosystem, sell the token back to MetaFactory, put it to work by providing liquidity and earning $GEAR, or hold it to utilize in conjunction with new utilities that will be introduced to $ROBOT tokenomics.

Collaboration partners have the same options available to them with the $ROBOT they earn by working with us. For every dollar in USD revenue a project generates, a set amount of $ROBOT is put aside and allocated to the project. 70% of this $ROBOT allocation is given to communities who work with us and 30% is divided up internally to the MetaFactory team members who contributed value to the project. If held properly, the 70% $ROBOT allocation for a project will far exceed the USD revenue that a project generates.


### Future Tokenomics and Utility
Some of the most exciting and promising elements of our entire project are the new utilities that will be incorporated into the tokenomics and utility of $ROBOT. Beyond serving as an "access pass" to MetaFactory microfactories discussed earlier, new innovations to our governance token will introduce great value to $ROBOT holders, further decentralize our organization, solve some problems MetaFactory is currently facing, and introduce a new staking mechanism that will allow $ROBOT holders to earn a share of each merch drop they stake behind.

One problem we currently face is keeping up with inbound interest and inquiries from external groups seeking to collaborate with us and utilize us as a high quality, zero cost, sustainably sourced, and ethical merch solution. The volume of inbound interest exceeds our current bandwidth.

Further, we do not currently have a formal curation process as to making decisions about which groups we take on as collaboration partners. These determinations are currently being handled by members of our core team in a "on the go" manner. We are going to fix this problem by distributing the process of project curation to all holders of $ROBOT.

By gamifying project curation through $ROBOT we solve three problems: 1) the process of choosing new communities to work with will be decentralized away from the core MetaFactory team and redistributed to the MetaFactory community of $ROBOT holders; 2) time spent by members of the core team can be re-allocated elsewhere as the community takes on this time consuming process; 3) we will formalize a currently informal process. We believe the collective wisdom and insight of the community will prove to be a superior method of curation than our current process.

The second exciting feature $ROBOT will obtain is the ability for holders to stake their $ROBOT to projects they find interesting or promising. Doing this will earn them a cut of the overall sales and enable stakers to acquire more $ROBOT consistent with the proportion of their stake. Furthermore, it will create an organic method of marketing through creating incentive for stakers to promote the projects they stake into. Stakers will want to see these projects be successful. As such, they will take it upon themselves to creatively market these projects in a healthy manner, one that does not come off as insincere shilling.

### Closing Thoughts
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