PIP-04 makes it official ✅ From day one, the intention has never changed: $NODE is the economic layer of the NodeOps Network. Its growth must follow the growth of the ecosystem itself. PIP-04 formalizes this vision and turns it into an on-chain, rule-based economic engine that aligns the entire Network around long-term, sustainable value. Here is what this really means: → Every dollar of real network usage now translates directly into on-chain burns → 50% of all protocol fees are burned permanently, enforced by contract and sent to an immutable address → 50% of revenue feeds an adaptive mint mechanism that only expands supply when the ecosystem grows → r (the mint ratio) stays conservative by default and can only increase with explicit governance approval → Weekly burns become predictable, auditable, and verifiable by anyone in real time This establishes a transparent, irreversible, and fully automated deflationary foundation for $NODE. And it does more than reduce supply: → It creates trust → It creates alignment → It creates a direct link between network maturity and token value Weigh in now: http:/forum.nodeops.network/t/...… NodeOps already burned 3% of total supply earlier this year, all sent to the same provably irrecoverable address. PIP 04 takes that commitment and hard-codes it into the Network’s DNA. This is the economic engine that will power NodeOps going forward: predictable, transparent, and built for institutional confidence. A self-reinforcing loop where: More usage → more burns → more scarcity → stronger value accrual That is the vision. That is the future PIP-04 unlocks for $NODE.