Questions for the Phantasma “State of the Chain” — Focused on Growth, Trust, and Scalability 1. Making It Easy for Anyone to Build on Phantasma When will people be able to build on Phantasma without needing team assistance, guidance, or intervention? That kind of dependency creates a bottleneck—slowing adoption, limiting innovation, and discouraging builders, creators, and new users who might otherwise help grow the ecosystem. By providing complete, public-facing documentation and tools, Phantasma can unlock broader participation, scale without limits, and deliver the kind of adoption and ecosystem growth we’re all hoping to see—so it can truly thrive as a blockchain where anyone can build. 2. Growing Adoption Through External Marketing Can we commit a fixed share—such as 5%—of total inflation specifically to external marketing—clearly separated from team salaries or internal roles? A fixed, transparent budget for performance-driven campaigns like paid ads, influencer outreach, and user acquisition would scale naturally with SOUL’s price. It’s a simple, measurable way to show the community that real resources are being committed to growth—and could be key to gaining the visibility needed for Phantasma’s next leap forward. 3. Making the Most of Ecosystem Incentive Funds The whitepaper states: “Unless the ecosystem incentive portion of the annual inflation is allocated to specific incentives, it will be distributed to block producers.” Yet that same section clearly defines these funds as solely intended to maximize ecosystem quality and sustain developer contributions. Redirecting unallocated incentive funds to validator rewards could undermine that purpose and risks misalignment with the community’s growth goals. Will you revise or remove this fallback clause—so that unallocated funds remain reserved exclusively for development, dApp incentives, and network expansion? Clarifying this now would strengthen investor confidence, ensure resources are directed where they add the most value, and help Phantasma deliver on its stated mission. 4. Sharing Validation Power to Build Trust How many independent block producers are currently validating blocks on the Phantasma chain? If none are active yet, what steps are planned to transition to a decentralized validator model with multiple unaffiliated parties, as described in the whitepaper? Can you share a clear timeline with milestones—and a way for the community to monitor progress? Decentralized validation is essential to Phantasma’s credibility, security, and growth—especially with new users and developers watching for proof of decentralization. Can you commit to a plan that gets us there soon? 5. Ensuring Fair and Sustainable Team Compensation Team compensation being fixed in SOUL can result in disproportionately large payouts as the token price rises—especially as SOUL moves beyond $1. Will you commit to adopting and publishing a USD-pegged compensation model with clear, enforceable limits to keep pay fair, scalable, and sustainable—while preserving more inflation funds for development, adoption, and long-term ecosystem growth, and aligned with how most top blockchain projects handle compensation?