# Usage tokens

`kaal:entity:usage-tokens`

**Status.** derived

This node is assembled mechanically from the 2 claims that carry the concept tag `usage-tokens`. It is a roster of what the corpus says under this term. It is **not** an adjudicated definition: no single statement here has been ruled canonical, and no first-appearance call has been made. Read the claims and judge for yourself.

## Every claim under this term

2 claims across 1 works, 2018 to 2018.

**2018**

- [3249860-026](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3249860-026) [empirical/evidenced] -- Thirty-two of the top 100 tokens have inherent value, for example as a currency, and thirty-two derive their underlying value from giving holders permission to use a digital service.
  > Thirty-two tokens have inherent value, for example as a currency. The underlying value of thirty-two tokens is that they give token holders permission to use a digital service.
  Wulf A. Kaal, Crypto Economics - The Top 100 Token Models Compared (2018). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3249860
- [3249860-027](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3249860-027) [predictive/evidenced] -- Permission to use a service via the token took over as the dominant type of underlying value in June 2017, and the author sees multiple indicia that this trend toward tokens granting rights to use services will continue.
  > Permission to use (a given service etc. via the token) took over as the dominant type of underlying value in June 2017. The author has seen multiple indicia that this trend towards tokens that grant rights to use services etc. will continue.
  Wulf A. Kaal, Crypto Economics - The Top 100 Token Models Compared (2018). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3249860

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