Blockchain business firm Hedera announced that holders of its HBAR token that decide to lock their crypto assets will be compensated with more than cryptocurrency.

In a blog post on Dec. 23, the company announced that, offset in early 2022, HBAR holders that participated in the token sale will be able to accept part in a plan that would compensate them with almanac allocations of boosted coins. In exchange, investors would have to postpone the release date of the tokens caused in their original investment.

Payments driven by adoption

The offering is aimed at accredited investors who signed a simple understanding for future tokens (SAFT) and bought a hereafter crypto asset from the house. The release of the additional tokens will be calculated past Hedera annually based on network adoption speed.

Per the announcement, x% of transaction fees and treasury sales would be released to SAFT holders that locked their tokens. The cap on this bonus would be the holder'southward investment corporeality in U.S. dollars. The mail explains:

"Whatever current SAFT holder that chooses to participate volition receive the full number of coins expected in their original SAFT agreement, merely will agree to extend the distribution schedule for what remains of their original SAFT allocation by 25%. In exchange, Hedera volition repay the total value of their original investment over time, in coins."

The mail is only a summary of the firm'southward plans and no investor action is required as of all the same. Detailed documents pertaining to the offer volition be released early on next year. Hedera also announced that side by side yr the source code of its platform and tools volition become open.

Every bit Cointelegraph explained in September, Hedera Hashgraph is a decentralized public network targeting enterprises that claims to be capable of processing ten,000 cryptocurrency transactions per second (TPS). Some analysts expressed skepticism regarding the house's claims, which also include the purported ability to run a network's total node on a mobile phone.

Notably, the 10,000 TPS that the network purportedly is able to handle are not processed by the virtual machine, which means that the number is valid simply when one considers business relationship-to-account transfers and not smart contract execution.