Deep Dive Into Babylon's $BABY Token: What You Need to Know
The $BABY token is the heartbeat of the Babylon ecosystem, and its tokenomics are carefully crafted to balance sustainability, security, and community involvement. Here's a fresh breakdown of how it all works—and what it means for you as an investor, builder, or enthusiast.
➡️Total Supply: Fixed & Fractional for Flexibility
The total supply of $BABY is locked at 10 billion tokens, creating a capped system that prevents unexpected dilution.
But there's more: each BABY token can be divided into 1 million smaller units, known as ubbn. This micro-divisibility means the network is primed for high-precision financial interactions, from staking rewards to micro-payments and dApps requiring granular control.
➡️How $BABY is Allocated
The distribution of BABY tokens is split across six strategic buckets, designed to fuel growth, incentivize participation, and ensure long-term alignment:
Community Incentives (15%)
1.5 billion tokens to reward users, grow adoption, and power campaigns like airdrops and staking bonuses.
Ecosystem Development (18%)
1.8 billion tokens for grants, partnerships, bounty programs, marketing, and potential acquisitions.
Operations & R&D (18%)
Another 1.8 billion tokens go to the core operations team to fund technical development and innovation.
Private Investors (30.5%)
The largest chunk (3.05 billion) was sold to early supporters and backers—giving them a long-term stake in Babylon’s success.
Team (15%)
Reserved for core contributors with a four-year vesting schedule, ensuring long-term commitment.
Advisors (3.5%)
350 million tokens allocated to strategic advisors who help steer Babylon’s roadmap—also vesting-based.
➡️The Core Utilities of $BABY
This isn't just a speculative asset—$BABY has real utility:
Governance: Token holders can propose and vote on governance upgrades, protocol changes, and treasury allocations.
Staking & Security: BABY tokens are staked to support validator nodes, helping to secure the Babylon chain.
Transaction Fees: All network transactions are paid in BABY, creating ongoing demand for the token.
Rewards Mechanism: Both BTC and BABY stakers earn BABY rewards, incentivizing users to participate in and secure the ecosystem.
➡️Staking Incentives & Inflation: A Balanced Approach
To maintain network incentives without runaway inflation, BABY uses a controlled inflation model:
Annual inflation rate: 8%
Distribution of new tokens: Split evenly between Bitcoin stakers and BABY stakers
This dual-staking model is unique—it helps build bridges between Bitcoin and newer PoS ecosystems, letting Bitcoin holders directly participate in Babylon’s security model without relinquishing their BTC.
➡️Final Thoughts: Why $BABY Matters
The $BABY token is more than just a speculative play—it’s a multi-functional asset designed for governance, security, and economic coordination within the Babylon ecosystem. Its well-planned tokenomics aim to strike a balance between decentralization, rewards, and long-term sustainability.
As the Babylon platform continues to grow—with more integrations, partnerships, and adoption—the $BABY token could play a pivotal role in shaping the next wave of decentralized finance infrastructure.
4 Crypto Founders Trump Pardoned and 3 Who May Be Next
President Donald Trump made history when he pardoned a corporation, the Mahe, Seychelles-based BitMEX. The crypto exchange has been operating since 2014.
In addition to pardoning it of its money laundering conviction following a guilty plea in July 2024, the president added its three founders and a senior employee.
Trump signed the pardons without publicizing them, so the BitMEX pardons were not as widely anticipated as that of Ross Ulbricht in January. While campaigning for reelection, the president pledged at the Libertarian Convention in May 2024 to pardon the Silk Road founder.
Now crypto communities are wondering if the president will grant some other founders clemency. They include some big names like FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried and Binance founder Changpeng Zhao.
Here are four cryptocurrency founders Trump just pardoned in March and three more that might follow soon.
BitMEX pled guilty to violating the Bank Secrecy Act of 1970 by failing to police its exchange for money laundering properly. As a result, the US Dept. of Justice announced a $100 million fine for BitMEX on Jan. 15.
Furthermore, the DOJ put the exchange’s parent company on two years of probation. U.S. Attorney Matthew Podolsky said the fine sends a message that consequences for violating anti-money laundering policies will be severe.
In addition to BitMEX’s conviction, the US government previously found its founder, Arthur Hayes, guilty of his company’s violations. After starting his exchange, Hayes became the youngest African American billionaire in history.
In May 2022, the government sentenced Hayes to six months in supervised home detention and two years of probation. Following his pardon in March, Hayes thanked the president in a post on X. Cardano founder Charles Hoskinson congratulated the Bitcoin exchange founder.
In his first blog update since the pardon, Hayes wrote a lengthy and technical critique of Trump’s trade wars using tariffs on imports.
After the pardons, BitMEX co-founder Benjamin Delo released a note stating the DOJ “wrongfully targeted BitMEX and its co-founders.” Delo also thanked Trump for the pardons:
“This full and unconditional pardon by President Trump is a vindication of the position we have always held – that BitMEX, my co-founders and I should never have been charged with a criminal offense through an obscure, antiquated law.”
Delo asserted regulators pressed the case against his exchange for political reasons:
“As the most successful crypto exchange of its kind, we were wrongfully made to serve as an example, sacrificed for political reasons and used to send inconsistent regulatory signals.”
A British national, Delo is giving away half of his crypto fortune to charitable causes:
“A legal wrong has been righted today and despite the distress I have been through over the past few years I’m pleased to have cleared my name and to be able to continue my life and philanthropic work without the burden of an unfounded conviction.”
BitMEX CTO Samuel Reed also got a pardon from Mr. Trump. He pled guilty along with his business partners to violating anti-money laundering and Know Your Customer regulations in Mar. 2022.
As a result, he got slapped with a $10 million fine while facing down the possibility of five years in prison. He wound up getting 18 months of probation instead.
In addition, the exchange’s former Head of Business Development, Gregory Dwyer, received a pardon for his Bank Secrecy Act conviction along with the others. He agreed to pay a fine of $150,000.
BitMEX has stayed busy in the meantime, building its extraordinary reputation for security. Last November, the exchange marked ten years as the crypto exchange with the longest streak of losing zero customers’ funds to hacks. This month, BitMEX boosted staking rewards for BMEX by 50%.
The pardons prompted CNBC’s Jim Cramer to wonder out loud if Trump might spring Sam Bankman-Fried from a 25-year prison sentence. His financial news site, TheStreet, reported :
“As Trump’s pardons stir debate across the crypto world, speculation grows over who could be next — with names like SBF, CZ, and Roger Ver dividing the prediction markets.”
Ross Ulbricht founded the legendary Silk Road exchange under the screen name Dread Pirate Roberts in 2011. The “dark web” exchange allowed users to buy and sell illegal items and services like scheduled drugs and assassin services and pay vendors using Bitcoin.
While serving a life sentence for criminal enterprise, drug trafficking, money laundering, and computer hacking, Trump pardoned him with overwhelming support for the move from the cryptocurrency community.
The day Trump pardoned him , the odds on PolyMarket rose to 93%.
At his sentencing hearing, Ulbricht said, “I wanted to empower people to make choices in their lives and have privacy and anonymity.” He’s set to share his story in a new documentary.
The FTX exchange founder, known online as SBF, is serving a 25-year sentence for wire fraud and financial fraud that surfaced during the crypto market crash in 2022.
In January, Bloomberg reported that SBF’s parents are seeking a pardon from the president. Once a big donor to the Democratic Party, SBF has made a hard right pivot.
He bashed SDNY Judge Kaplan in a February New York Sun interview by telephone, the judge who handed Trump a loss in a salacious civil trial.
Then turned around in March and gave a bombshell prison interview to Tucker Carlson that the jail administrators did not authorize.
Ultra-early Bitcoin (BTC) and Bitcoin Cash (BCH) investor Roger Ver has been in detention in Spain since Apr. 2024, fighting extradition to the US on charges of tax evasion.
Because of his status as a very early Bitcoin and crypto promoter, the media nicknamed Ver Bitcoin Jesus. In Feb. 2024, a grand jury in California indicted Ver for “three counts of mail fraud, two counts of tax evasion, and three counts of subscription to a false tax return.”
He reached out in January to President Trump for a pardon, posting on X:
“Mr. President, I am an American, and I need your help. Only you, with your commitment to justice, can save me @realDonaldTrump.”
Ross Ulbricht came to his defense in February in an X post suggesting he should just be allowed to pay any taxes owed and be free again.
CZ, the software engineer and business mastermind behind the globally class-leading crypto exchange Binance, is already out of jail after a four-month stint in California last year. He has denied rumors of any business involvement with the Trump crypto enterprises.
But the BitMEX pardons added fuel to the fire of rumors that Trump may pardon Zhao next. That would allow him to get back to a leadership role at Binance.
Crypto Fear & Greed Index falls 14 points to 31, remaining in ‘Fear’ zone
The Crypto Fear & Greed Index, provided by software development platform Alternative, stands at 31 as of April 14, down 14 points from the previous day. Amid weakened sentiment, the index stayed in the "Fear" zone.
The index ranges from 0 to 100 where 0 signifies extreme fear and 100 indicates extreme greed in the crypto market. The fear and greed index takes into account six different factors: volatility (25%), market momentum/volume (25%), social media (15%), surveys (15%), Bitcoin dominance (10%) and Google Trends (10%).
SIX 社群媒體數據
過去 24 小時,SIX 社群媒體情緒分數是 3,社群媒體上對 SIX 價格走勢偏向 看漲。SIX 社群媒體得分是 0,在所有加密貨幣中排名第 1193。
根據 LunarCrush 統計,過去 24 小時,社群媒體共提及加密貨幣 1,058,120 次,其中 SIX 被提及次數佔比 0%,在所有加密貨幣中排名第 1200。
過去 24 小時,共有 17 個獨立用戶談論了 SIX,總共提及 SIX 1 次,然而,與前一天相比,獨立用戶數 增加 了 42%,總提及次數減少。
Twitter 上,過去 24 小時共有 0 篇推文提及 SIX,其中 0% 看漲 SIX,0% 篇推文看跌 SIX,而 100% 則對 SIX 保持中立。
在 Reddit 上,最近 24 小時共有 1 篇貼文提到了 SIX,相比之前 24 小時總提及次數 減少 了 0%。
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