# What is POLLEN?

POLLEN is a governance token designed to support the stability and growth of the Beraborrow protocol by aligning incentives for NECT adoption and liquidity. POLLEN holders participate in protocol decision-making and contribute to governance-driven incentives that enhance Beraborrow’s ecosystem.\
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Initially, incentives will focus on the Liquid Stability Pool and stablecoin liquidity. Once sufficient liquidity is established in the stable-swap system, incentives will be redirected toward protocols and use cases that increase NECT's utility as a stablecoin, such as a trading protocol using NECT as a quote asset, a game using NECT to be able to perform transactions, or simply a new token launching pairing its initial liquidity with NECT.

## Protocol Interest Rate Allocation

Since Beraborrow does not have lenders, all protocol interest revenue is allocated to governance-driven initiatives that support ecosystem sustainability:

* Berachain Rewards Vaults: Governance participants can stake POLLEN to contribute to ecosystem governance and decision-making, aligning incentives with Beraborrow’s long-term sustainability.
* Protocol Liquidity Initiatives: Governance participants allocate funds to enhance stablecoin liquidity, ensuring the stability of NECT as a decentralized stable asset.

Creating a flywheel where more NECT utility enables more users to use Beraborrow for leverage, thus increasing total interest rates/fees are routed through POLLEN and to the vePOLLEN holders\
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See interest rates and Daily Loss to Volume calcs [here](/docs/pollen/pollen-emissions.md#daily-loss-to-volume)

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Staking
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Pollen can be Locked for vePOLLEN see all details [here](/docs/pollen/vepollen.md)

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## Initial `POLLEN` distribution

There are 420,000,000 `POLLEN` tokens.\
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Breakdown of token distribution can be seen [here](https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1MmVYxaOKlHe1KnfUH8HeWL6ZttxDMI8ny6a2HiGRg7w/edit?usp=sharing)<br>

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