# Macha Ecosystem

With Macha's discovery layer and federated network there are boundless opportunities for builders to invent for creator economy, affiliated marketing, distributed commerce and 

## Application and Inspirations

### Discovery for Creators Content - 

* Creators and curators participate in federated network to aggregate content. 

### Integrate Distributed Commerce

### Affiliated Marketing and Ads Network

* The seller lists the products they want to be promoted on the affiliate network.
* Affiliates browse the affiliate network for products that are a good fit for their audience.
* The affiliates promote those products to their audience.
* Customers follow a referral link that lets them check out.
* The affiliate and affiliate network are paid their commission.

## Economic Model

Macha has future plans to launch MNT - Macha Network Token. MNT is expected to be the ERC-20 token that helps to access and govern the Macha.

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We have thought of some usability of MNT that will allow participants in the network to form economic model that will make Macha a self sustaining system moderated through governance. Yet this is very early and will have a proper foundation set by a research conducted by contribution from across the world.&#x20;

Some usecases to MNT:

* Use of MNT for curation and referrals bids on Federated Network
* Use of MNT for purchase of storage on Federated Network
* Use of MNT for running data nodes in the network
* Use of MNT for higher search ranking on Federated Network
* Use of MNT as staking asset, locked in the network
* Use of MNT as currency for purchase
* Use of MNT for governance and community participation