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# Economic Model

ThirdFi is creating a fair and transparent economy model for sustainability, accountability and environmental responsibility. 

* **Fees Structure**: 
  1. Contributors provide training data to builders
  2. Builders pay contributors’ data to build advanced AI agents or AI dApps.
  3. Developers, users or enterprises pay to access builders’ AI algorithms and data
  4. Node operators earn by providing essential services like data computation and data hosting. 
* **Reward Mechanism**: \
  Both monetary and potentially token-based rewards for participants and investment in the network.

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