# Token Distribution The $CANDY token plays a crucial role in the Candy ecosystem, enabling governance and voting rights, staking and farming opportunities, and contributing to the platform's overall sustainability and growth. * **Investing(20%)**: Allocated for early investors and influencers in the crypto community, to support the launch of the project vision and expand Candy's reach and credibility. * **Team (20%)**: This portion is allocated to the development team, ensuring ongoing enhancements and support for the Candy platform. * **Ecology-Incentive Rewards(20%)**: Reserved for marketing efforts and platform development, driving awareness and adoption of Candy and its native token.Incentivizes token holders through staking rewards, LP participation, and ecosystem contributions, fostering engagement and sustainability. * **Marketing(10%)**: Used for mass marketing, KOLs and partners co-marketing to increase Candy’s brand awareness. * **Community(10%):** Reserved for marketing efforts and platform development, driving awareness and adoption of Candy and its native token. * **Liquidity (10%)**: Provides liquidity on decentralized & centralized exchanges, enhancing trading opportunities and stability for Candy's native token. * **DAO Treasury (10%)**: 100% locked by default, usage to be decided by DAO. Dedicated to the growth and development of Candy, ensuring future milestones are reached. --- # Agent Instructions: Querying This Documentation If you need additional information that is not directly available in this page, you can query the documentation dynamically by asking a question. Perform an HTTP GET request on the current page URL with the `ask` query parameter: ``` GET https://candy-ido.gitbook.io/candy-whitepaper/usdcandy-tokenomics/token-distribution.md?ask= ``` The question should be specific, self-contained, and written in natural language. The response will contain a direct answer to the question and relevant excerpts and sources from the documentation. Use this mechanism when the answer is not explicitly present in the current page, you need clarification or additional context, or you want to retrieve related documentation sections.