ultimately one of the main points of this revenue is to build up a reserve of complementary assets (gold, usd, staked sol...) that can be used to buy back ORE you can think of it as a set of limit orders that buy back ORE and bury it during downturns the endgame is for the Reserve to have enough buying power to absorb the sellable supply at a defined minimum price before it is depleted once it reaches and sustains that point, ORE's appeal as a savings asset becomes stronger, because holders have a floor against which to assess their downside risk if there’s one metric to track right now it’s the growth rate of this Reserve the Reserve however, is only half the story. if building it up is defence, then the offence lies in establishing a long-term monetary premium ore's potential for a monetary premium is strong, thanks (in part) to its fair launch, slow initial distribution, credible long-term scarcity, and growing mining participation (particularly from non-professionals) to see this clearly you also have to see why it makes sense for something like ore to exist in the SoV design space (read this essay for my longer form thoughts here: xitter.cf/sacha/status/211252140…) in sum, continuing to establish this monetary premium is the primary objective. the Reserve just preserves some of the capital generated along the way (in effect turning activity during the bull into buying power during the bear) naturally, offence and defence here are intertwined, in the sense that this buying power also reinforces ORE's memetics and appeal as a long term SoV