There is a very real problem that most people aren't seeing clearly in the crypto industry. In recent years, almost every token model that appears encourages people to profit from selling, not holding. And this creates a pretty bad scenario where insiders and early investors run away before retail, leaving everyone in misaligned positions.

Brian Flynn has been raising this issue for a while, and he's right. We see this happen constantly: projects that promise a united community, but in reality, the incentive is exactly the opposite. When you only profit if you sell cryptocurrencies, what's the motivation to stay? None. Then comes that rush to exit that destroys what the project was trying to build.

What Flynn proposes is quite different: imagine if token holders could profit simply by holding their positions? If they had a right to a share of the protocol's revenue, like dividends, but decentralized. It was like shareholder voting, but for crypto. This would eliminate the need for those lock-ups that nobody likes and create a real incentive for the long term.

The timing of this is critical. With regulators tightening the grip, the industry needs to show it can create more sustainable and aligned models. If we don't propose credible alternatives now, when regulatory windows close, it will be too late. It’s no longer acceptable to sell cryptocurrencies with that old narrative that everyone will get rich quickly.

This is the kind of fundamental change that could transform how we think about tokenomics. But it depends on everyone understanding that profiting from holding is much healthier for the ecosystem than profiting from selling.