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Something worth noting for the $SNAP allocation algorithm: it was built for the future, not the past. Hypersnap doesn’t have the benefit of a pool of VC money to run nodes and encourage users/builders. All of this is done by the community and incentivized by a community token. But a token with a bad mechanism can’t work in the long run. So the team churned through dozens of different allocation algorithms and got feedback internally and externally. This is how major botnets were found and their network impacts significantly reduced algorithmically, not manually. Why is this important? Anyone running a similar botnet in the future won’t be rewarded. This is baked into the allocation algorithm. The team used past data to come up with a solid algorithm for the future. This algorithm was created in public via the FIP process and can be changed the same way. So if you’re wondering why x got y, it’s because they had some sort of network impact in the past. And their efforts will helped Hypersnap shape the algorithm to avoid farmers in the future.

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