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# $MICRO Utility and Supply

Utility is embedded into every friction point of the game to ensure constant market demand.

* **Total Supply:** Exactly 1,000,000,000 tokens.
* **Genesis Minting:** Required for forging all Agent NFTs.
* **Arena Entry:** A mandatory fee of 70 MICRO is required for each PvP match.
* **PvE Access:** MICRO is burned or taxed for entry into strategic simulation zones.
* **DEX Pairing:** Mandatory pairing on decentralized exchanges links agent performance to the core ecosystem value.