As previously mentioned token flow will still be inflationary until actual enticing utilities are devised and developed for PRE. As @Quindar calls it sinks, I call it utility, or value propositions for using PRE.
I have given a number of utility ideas none of which are on the roadmap yet which is why I continue to try to reiterate and educate on this fundamental token concern. Yes economics have to be in place but so does tokenomics and token flow. In fact if you improve token flow meaning more tokens are coming into the treasury than going out that actually increases the valuation of PREsearch because those tokens can be used for any number of network requirements (increased rewards, marketing, or even sold on open market to pay for development or legal etc.)
I also have explained we cannot just try to mimic TRAD search providers and we cannot also just mimic other stagnant failed crypto projects either (mostly 1-trick ponies with no real valuable utilities). You have to change the game!
The thing that entices everyone is opportunity, opportunity for income, privacy, better UI, better non-biased results, better AI or more AI options under one roof, more tailored search based on community affiliations, a potential slice of digital advertising space on a growing search platform, and of course the ability to make use of any PRE purchased held or earned, etc.
You change the game by adding lots of income generating opportunities and lots of uses for that PRE generated income. These become the Anchors (like anchor stores at a mall) the more the better. Those will entice many individuals, influencers, entrepreneurs and businesses when they see the potential of the system they can develop and use themselves they will work together to bring the world over as users of that fair and decentralized system that rewards people for the value given to the network. They will benefit themselves from bringing more people to the platform. The new users they bring over will also benefit from a constantly improving better value platform because value will be created every day by thousands of people instead of just a small team of developers (but those opportunities have to be available and currently they are not). Presearch obviously benefits from all of this because once the concepts/anchors are built they are utilities, ‘sinks’, free-marketing, value, and massive income to Presearch.
Do you think Amazon destroyed the competition by building everything themselves for themselves selling their own products themselves? No they simply built the anchors the platform that the world could use and yes PROFIT from and they collectively brought the world over giving the users of the platform WAY more value and opportunity than any other company of its kind that has come before it. Presearch needs to focus on building the anchors.
The only “anchors” I see on PREsearch are Nodes (net cost), search rewards(net cost), and at some point keywords (the only one that could provide PRE income but is far off due to low users and searches).
I am suggesting build the anchors/concepts that can create net PRE income to the project first, because they will get the project to equilibrium of token flow fastest making the biggest expenses for the project sustainable. This also becomes free-marketing, free organic user and search growth, protects the project for regulatory overreach because if these utilities are built out and being used and further expanded by the community that is no longer relying on Presearch they are relying on their own efforts and other users that see value in their efforts.