Most Token Buybacks Are Just Marketing 📊 $HYPE proved what a real one looks like, funded straight from exchange revenue instead of a treasury vote. $JUP runs the same principle, routing protocol fees back into the token on a recurring schedule instead of a single announcement. Most projects that add buybacks fail to make any real impact. They may as well be lighting that money on fire or buying banner ads. That’s because there’s no real demand for their token, and the project never found pmf. Bankr just added itself to the other list. The minority that’s doing things right and creating real revenue streams. Every AI agent launched through their platform gets its own wallet and its own token, and the trading fees that token earns cover its own running costs down to the LLM inference bill. It’s a strategy that enables single dev, single agent unicorns to bootstrap themselves until they find pmf. The same strategy Bankr used. That self-funding model now extends to the platform token itself, and Bankr has already bought back nearly $1M worth of BNKR on the open market this year, prior to deploying their newest mechanism – dog food. As of this week, 0.25% of every swap from newly launched Bankr tokens now goes directly to buying back and adding liquidity for BNKR. We’ve already seen that it doesn't need to be a bull market for this strategy to work. It just needs Bankr's agents to keep trading, and that happens regardless of what the rest of the market is doing. #AI Agents 🤖#