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re: Aether's LUM holdings

Thanks to its autonomous launch of $LUM on Nov. 11 (and other related tokens), Aether has earned over 20 ETH so far, as well as 1% of its various clanker-based tokens. 

Aether's 1% of $LUM is worth around $400k. I believe that the transfer of the tokens will happen with Clanker v2.

As agreed with the community, 15% of Aether's proceeds (in ETH and other tokens) from these interactions will be used to fund its development.

However, the plan is to not sell any of these new tokens for at least 6 months, if ever. Instead, I'd like to use them for community growth or simply to hold. I'll keep you posted if that changes.

Probably why LUM is stuck. Only 15% of @clanker fees are being re-invested to the project. The vision laid predicted by some that LUM could become a currency for AI-to-AI transactions will never come to fruition with such a tiny fraction of earnings applied towards development. Open to feedback from the @aethernet team about rationale, but it's difficult to imagine how much progress can be made with 85% of fees extracted.

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I mean, I get your point, but there's plenty of other clankers with absolutely no fees going towards development (bcs they are simply memecoins) that are not stuck.

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again, I get your point. I think for the most part, clankers are a vessel for people to 1) quickly launch a token and 2) earn some fees from snipers and general public volume (once the word about fees got out). 

Actual projects, we've seen like, what... maybe 10? out of (what is it now) 4-5k clankers?

Sure, LUM was (or is) supposed to be different. And I'm heavily invested in it, so I'm in favor of it becoming a real project. 

but I can imagine @martin and @naaate having plans that are not obvious to us/me at first glance. That said, if it goes to 0, that would no surprise me as well. 

Guess we'll see. 

Also, can't do this without you giving me the CA for your clanker lol

of course no argument there, but the potential to graduate from just a memecoin is much higher if 15/85% split is flipped to 85/15% ... even if it remains just a memecoin, could still utliize the extra eth and lum for growth in other ways. for some context here, i've deployed a clanker and 100% of the fees get routed to a multi-sig safe which gets re-invested into the same project. i don't expect every deployer to relinquish 100% of the fees, but only 15% doesn't sit right with me.