FARM token
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In order to provide incentives to yield farmers using the Harvest platform, the $FARM token was released when Harvest (formerly known as Harvest Finance) launched on September 1st, 2020. The token was launched without any premining, presale, venture capitalist, or investor funds, with 0 circulating supply at launch. Tokens were never sold at ICO / TGE or any kind of fundraising venture.
The FARM token is emitted on a weekly schedule over a four-year period from its launch date. Below is a breakdown of token emissions:
70% of the FARM tokens will be utilized as rewards for liquidity providers, liquidity provisioning on decentralized marketplaces, market-making services across exchanges, and for the creation & ongoing maintenance of any deployed strategies (Including any payments associated with strategy development). New emissions details are released weekly on the Medium blog or Official Discord server.
10% of the FARM tokens will flow to the Operational Treasury to pay for contributions to the maintenance of the protocol, including community contributor rewards and business operation expenses, including any legal fees to support Harvest operations and/or its contributors.
20% of the FARM tokens will flow to the original founding Development Team.
The specific weekly distribution of incentives is monitored by the community contributor team with the goal of providing the greatest benefit to liquidity providers and FARM token holders.
In Week 5, FARM holders voted overwhelmingly to cap the maximum supply to 690,420 tokens by reducing the emissions of tokens by 4.45% every week until week 208 (27 August 2024) which is exactly 4 years from launch. As a result, token emissions were set to follow this curve:
At 07:46 PM UTC on September 6, 2024, the last FARM was officially minted and emissions ended.
$FARM was launched with a hard-coded maximum supply of 5,000,000 tokens which would be minted over the course of 4 years.
In this initial period, it was noted that emissions were higher than needed for the growth of the project. As a result, a total of 14,870.23 $FARM tokens were burned irretrievably to 0xffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffff to decrease the total circulating supply. Considering this amount to the maximum circulating amount of 690,420 $FARM is 705,290.23 $FARM which could be verified through the totalSupply amount in the smart contract of $FARM.
All $FARM tokens circulated in L2 networks are all bridged tokens from the Ethereum mainnet and are not tokens minted over the 690,420 cap.
The FARM token was also used to determine voting power in Harvest governance proposals when originally launched. The snapshot governance page can be found here: https://snapshot.org/#/harvestfi.eth/about.
Today the Harvest protocol has moved away from formal voting and instead comes to consensus through contributor proposal and discussion. The FARM token does not give holders a vote on incentive distribution, strategy deployment/updates, addition/removal of vaults, etc. When voting is utilized, it is used for higher-order strategic decisions, such as the above mentioned supply reduction.
$FARM is available for trading on several centralized and decentralized exchanges:
Centralized Exchanges
Binance, Coinbase, Crypto.com, Kraken and many more
Decentralized Exchanges
