Any 'public benchmark' needs to be built, maintained, and financed by someone. Treehouse's token design does not aim to be 'decorative', but to integrate TREE into three essential links: usage, staking, and governance. Invoking DOR, subscribing to data, and running contract interfaces incur costs, which are priced and distributed to the nodes providing services and the public goods pool according to rules; Panelists and service providers need to stake TREE to qualify for submitting observations or providing services, with penalties for errors or malfeasance; in governance, new DORs, parameter curves, fees, and funding all go through voting to avoid 'black box parameter adjustments'. The key to this structure is to ensure that 'who uses - who pays - who bears responsibility - who enjoys distribution' is traceable.
Early participants will also encounter a frequently mentioned component: Pre-Deposit Vault. The core idea is to lock TREE into a designated Panelist's Vault, with returns related to that Panelist's accuracy ranking and term settings, providing tiered APR upon maturity, while early exits result in zero returns. It serves both as a revenue channel for early contributions and a market-based ranking of 'who can steadily produce more accurate interest rates'. Before participating, make sure to clarify three things: locking time and redemption rules, yield calculation and ranking weights, and the emergency shutdown and arbitration path in extreme cases.
From the perspective of investment and governance, what truly determines whether TREE has long-term 'use value' is not the narrative, but five key data points: the scale of DOR invocation and payment, the on-chain occupancy and secondary depth of tAssets, the degree of decentralization of nodes and Panelists, the transparent disclosure of penalties and arbitration, and the expenditure direction of the public goods pool. By creating monthly comparisons of these five data points and observing the growth and retention after subsidy declines, one can quickly identify whether it is 'standing on subsidies' or 'standing firm on usage'. If you are an individual participant, the pragmatic advice is 'small amounts in batches + indicator review'; if you are an institution, the suggestion is 'compliance first + reconciliation connection + gray access'. For governance-related voting, try to express preferences based on quantifiable indicators, rather than relying on emotions.
To put it plainly: for Treehouse to be established, three things must be satisfied simultaneously—trustworthiness and citation of DOR, availability and exitability of tAssets, and the self-consistency of TREE's usage and distribution. Writing these down in your observation checklist is more effective than monitoring secondary market trends. When the day comes that 'usage data > story popularity', this fixed income layer will no longer be a concept, but will transform into infrastructure that you will use daily and be willing to pay for.
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