If you’re poking around the DataHaven blog, there’s a good chance you’re curious about how this whole thing actually works. What powers it? Who gets rewarded? How does the token play into it all?
Let’s talk about $HAVE, the token at the heart of DataHaven’s decentralized storage system.
We’ll keep it simple here. For a deep dive (with charts, supply breakdowns, and release schedules), you can check out the full tokenomics page.
$HAVE: More Than Just a Token
$HAVE is the native utility token of the DataHaven network. It’s designed to align incentives across storage providers, verifiers, developers, and end users. This isn’t a speculative asset bolted onto a product—it’s part of the system’s core logic.
You’ll use it to pay for storage, secure the network via staking, and participate in governance. Behind the scenes, every transaction flows through $HAVE.
Where Do the Tokens Go?
DataHaven is building the storage layer of the internet—one that’s transparent, resilient, and user-owned. $HAVE plays a key role in that: it ensures those who contribute to the network are rewarded fairly and verifiably.
The total supply of $HAVE is capped at 10 billion at genesis, with a controlled annual inflation cap of 500 million tokens. Here’s how it’s distributed:
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- Community (50%). The largest portion of tokens is reserved for the community, reflecting our belief in the importance of individual contributors and the core ethos of the web3 projects we support. These tokens will be used for decentralization and governance, participation and growth, and ecosystem development.
- Core team and contributors (20%). Reserved for the people building the protocol. This allocation has a long-term vesting schedule.
- Treasury (20%). Tokens held by the DataHaven Foundation for operating, R&D, and other relevant expenses to maintain network operations.
- Moonbeam Foundation (10%). DataHaven was launched by the Moonbeam Foundation, and this allocation compensates for time and expenses incurred. Importantly, DataHaven has no investors—meaning no cliffs and no traditional selling pressure. The Foundation’s allocation is structured for long-term alignment and ecosystem growth, not short-term gain.
(At TGE, 11% of tokens will unlock, with only ~4.5% expected to enter circulation right away. The rest will unlock gradually over time based on clear vesting schedules.)
TL;DR
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- $HAVE is the native utility token of the DataHaven network.
- It’s used for storage, staking, verification, and governance.
- 50% of the total supply goes to the community.
- It launches with a capped supply and a transparent unlock schedule.
- This is a fair launch. No early insider pricing, no VC carve-outs.
- The full breakdown lives here.
