Hi @Marroz,
Thanks for this, it’s a fair question.
One word on the revenge point, since you flagged it as personal. I understand the feeling, but that is not the reason. We go where the users and the blue-chip DeFi already are, and today that is Ethereum and Base.
On your main point, you are right. As things stand today, the step from product revenue to ASTR value is discretionary, not automatic. There is no rule converting a fixed share of Astar Fi revenue into ASTR.
Two things I can add.
First, the missing fees, because that one is not an accident. Charging now would brake the only thing that matters at this stage, which is whether people find the product genuinely useful. The core stays free, and monetization arrives later with premium features worth paying for; multi-wallet and the AI assistant are the first of those, and they land with v1.5. Free features bring users in, some of them convert to paid, revenue makes the product better, and a better product brings more users. We will not switch paid on until the free product is actually good.
Second, that is how Astar Fi becomes a real business, it is not yet how ASTR token benefits. Those are two different questions and you asked the second one.
Astar Fi is not a separate company’s product with Astar’s name on it, the value it creates is meant to come back to Astar, with ASTR at the center of it. Concretely, the paths, with an honest label on each:
- Reach and brand. Astar Fi is built for an audience that is not here today, and every user it brings in grows Astar’s reach and ASTR relevance. Real and happening now, and the least mechanical of the four.
- A door into the rest of the stack. Users who arrive through Astar Fi can be brought to Astar’s other products, where ASTR already has a direct role. Real, and it grows as the stack grows.
- A bigger audience for what already exists. A larger, more relevant Astar means more people able to take part in opportunities like Burndrop, and every ASTR burned tightens supply for the holders who stay.
- Revenue routed back to ASTR. Using a share of product revenue for buybacks, giving ASTR a role in premium access such as holding or spending it for discounted access, or directing part of what comes back into burns so usage turns into supply reduction. This is the one you are really asking about, and it is the one that is not decided yet. None of it is announced, and some of it will not survive the design work.
That last one is what we are working on now, before the revenue exists, so it is not bolted on afterwards. I am not going to give you a percentage I might have to walk back.
The order matters here. Build something people actually want, get it into enough hands to matter, then make the value it creates work for ASTR. Skipping to the third step with a formula and no users would give you a good paragraph and nothing behind it.
Thank you for pushing on this, keep it coming.
Gaius_sama 
Astar Foundation