# 5.1 $Salt

## <mark style="color:green;">**About $SALT Token**</mark>

$SALT token is the cornerstone of the Salt Ecosystem, utilized across various platform functionalities including protocol participation, tasks, staking, DeFi activities, fundraising, and protocol expansion. The Salt ecosystem is fundamentally comprised of players and builders and is designed to be community-owned, contributed to, operated, and maintained over time. It is intended as a tool to distribute the value and power of specific operational instances of the Salt Treasury.

The design of the $SALT token encourages the community to use it in ways that benefit the entire ecosystem within a sustainable environment. It provides incentives for early contributors and ecosystem participants. The maximum supply of $SALT will decrease over time through a burn mechanism.

<figure><img src="/files/BYhG0aQTipud8H5o7OSk" alt="" width="280"><figcaption><p>$SALT Token</p></figcaption></figure>

* **Name:** *Salt Token*
* **Symbol:** *$SALT*
* **Decimal**: *18*
* **Total Supply:** To be announced 🤐
* **Contact Address**

<table><thead><tr><th width="191">Chain</th><th>Contract Address</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td>TBA🤞</td><td></td></tr></tbody></table>

## <mark style="color:green;">$SALT Token Use Cases</mark>

To be announced 🤐

### <mark style="color:green;">Token Distribution</mark> <a href="#token-distribution" id="token-distribution"></a>

To be announced 🤐

### <mark style="color:green;">Token Vesting</mark> <a href="#token-vesting" id="token-vesting"></a>

To be announced 🤐


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