# 9INCH token

The 9inch token (9INCH) is the main utility token for the platform.

<mark style="color:green;">**Pumpamental #1**</mark>

9INCH is consistently bought by the DEX contract and burned in order to boost its price. The more volume on the DEX, the more goes into the buy-and-burn function and the more the token price is defended.

<mark style="color:green;">**Pumpamental #2**</mark>

9INCH is deflationary. The entire supply is distributed after the [Sacrifice](https://9inch.gitbook.io/9inch-gitbook/features/sacrifice) Phase, and no more tokens can ever be minted.

<mark style="color:green;">**Pumpamental #3**</mark>

9INCH is used to cast votes on governance of 9inch's liquidity pools, such as which tokens will get the highest-yielding pools. 9INCH holders are a kind of whitelisting filter for the platform!

### Use-Cases Explained

#### <mark style="color:green;">Yield-farming</mark>

Holders of 9INCH can participate in the highest-yielding [farms](https://9inch.gitbook.io/9inch-gitbook/features/farming) and earn the reward token [BBC](https://9inch.gitbook.io/9inch-gitbook/tokenomics/bbc-token).

As no 9INCH will ever be minted after launch, the only way to participate in the high-yielding farms is to market purchase 9INCH and provide liquidity to it.

#### <mark style="color:green;">Voting</mark>

Holders of 9INCH can vote on which tokens are to be given special, incentivized liquidity pools for people to farm. The votes are weighed by your % share of the 9INCH supply, ie: 1% holds 1% of the votes.

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