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# Tokenomics

YPRED tokens are designed to empower, thrive and sustain the growth & economy of yPredict, an ecosystem of developers, quants, analysts and traders.\
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At its core, it’s serving the needs of two primary participants in the yPredict ecosystem.

1.  **Developers**: Incentivizing developers for offering their predictive model on the platform. This creates a passive income opportunity for millions of AI/ML developers.
2.  **Traders:** Can use YPRED to purchase subscriptions to these predictive models listed on the platform and gets real-time signals through these models. Additionally, Just buying into the YPRED token gives them free access to the yPredict Analytics platform and high APY staking reward pools.

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**Predictive Models:** These models are generated through predictive modelling, *a mathematical technique using machine learning, and data mining to predict and forecast likely future outcomes.*

*Applied in financial markets including crypto to predict the future price of cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin.*
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Since the project incentivizes two primary groups; Developers and traders. This use of duo incentive mechanisms creates buying pressure for YPRED.