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This Altcoin’s Developer Broke Project’s Promise: Announced They Will Mint Additional Tokens

Nick Forster, co-founder of onchain options exchange Derive, has proposed increasing the supply of the platform's native token, DRV, by 50% to support ecosystem growth and accelerate deals with institutional ￰0￱ proposal, published yesterday, calls for the minting of 500 million new DRV ￰1￱ stated that the tokens to be minted will be transferred to the Derive Foundation (formerly the Lyra Foundation). Under the proposal, existing investors will experience a maximum dilution of 8.25% per year over four ￰2￱ stated that Derive has already secured a “major partnership to provide institutional-grade liquidity and custody services,” and that advanced discussions are underway with leading liquidity providers and traders in the industry.

However, the name of the partnering institution was not ￰3￱ the proposal, 46% of the newly minted tokens will be allocated to the core team, whose vesting period has largely been ￰4￱ is intended to ensure team members remain on the ￰5￱ tokens will vest over four years and can only be sold when DRV's market capitalization exceeds $150 ￰6￱ to CoinGecko data, DRV's current market capitalization is $28.5 ￰7￱ was previously known that Derive had pledged not to print any new ￰8￱ the conversion from LYRA to DRV, the total supply was kept constant at 1 billion ￰9￱ News: Pay Attention to This Date for the Major Altcoin - Penalties Will Be Imposed on Users Who Fail to Comply Forster argued that increasing the token supply was necessary to compete with Deribit, the options market leader that was recently acquired by Coinbase in a $2.9 billion ￰10￱ also announced that it has parted ways with some team members and investors who previously supported its merger with ￰11￱ merger plan was scrapped in May after investors criticized the options platform for undervaluing it. *This is not investment ￰12￱ Reading: This Altcoin’s Developer Broke Project’s Promise: Announced They Will Mint Additional Tokens

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