Truly the main reason for the token is so that the soft-consensus can easily manipulate and force transfers of tokens. Basically, this sidechain network has no control over the Steem coin so it's hard to develop high-level DApps using just Steem. So we make people convert their Steem to ENGN which is running entirely on the sidechain so the network has full control, making it much easier to create DApps. Plus, the token's inflation and profits of subDApps on the platform will fund future development/marketing/community building through a decentralized devgrant based system

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