Follow the money
A venue can process billions in volume without creating the same amount of economic value. Trading fees are one flow; funding payments between traders are another. Gross fees may then fund liquidity providers, infrastructure, incentives, reserves or token-related mechanisms.
A buyback is a mechanism, not a valuation
Read the rule before assigning value. Is the allocation discretionary? Is it based on gross fees or net revenue? Are purchased tokens burned, retained or distributed? Does another reserve supply the burn? Different answers produce different holder economics.
Avoid counting the same dollar twice
If a source already includes buybacks in holder revenue, adding buyback dollars again overstates the flow. Burning a token from a reserve is not a second dollar of cash paid to holders. Staking rewards funded by new issuance are also different from rewards funded by external revenue.
Normalize before multiplying
Annualizing one unusually strong month creates a scenario, not a forecast. Examine multiple periods, incentives and trading conditions. Then disclose the multiple and diluted-supply horizon. Our workbench makes those assumptions explicit; it does not decide them for you.
Further reading & sources
By the PerpsAtlas research desk · Educational analysis · Published 22 September 2026.
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