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# Economic Flywheel

Axiom is built to create a self-sustaining loop between truth, capital, and yield.

The flywheel operates as follows:

1. **Markets create trading volume**
2. **Trading generates commissions**
3. **Commissions flow into the Axiom Prime vaults**
4. **Yield increases share prices**
5. **Higher yield attracts more stake**
6. **More stake increases governance security**
7. **Higher security creates more trust in market accuracy**
8. **More trust increases trading volume**
9. **The cycle repeats**

Bootstrap incentives such as Axiom Points and proposer consensus bonuses accelerate early phases of this loop


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