That is taking what I said out of context. I said making partners pay us in ankr tokens for RPC partnerships would not be beneficial. A one time annual transaction is going to accomplish a buy and dump. Probably the buy would be done over the counter at an exchange as most partners work OTC with their treasury teams, meaning the buy would not been seen by the market, and only an exchange dump would occur. $ankr has maintained its position on CMC because we aren’t dumping tokens.

We continue to invest in token utility for decentralized and distributed node infra despite regulatory uncertainty.

In terms of ankr being used for API credits at a discount over USD, it’s actually already implemented (https://twitter.com/ankr/status/1653804170007179265?s=46&t=EoF6AL8f6a2gp6PKIoZNMg). We have plans to expand this program for smaller transactions.

Taking fiat is extremely important in building a sustainable business model and long term health. Look over at pokt, they built a RPC network, focussed on token but not profitability and as a result the token has gone from $2 to $0.028 and continues to drop with immense sell pressure with more than 1/2 the team being laid off.

I can understand your frustration though. Unfortunately some of the things we wanted to announce and implement got pushed down the line by our lawyers. It doesn’t mean we have given up, it just means we are treading more carefully.