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# Initial Distribution

## Design Target

It was estimated that this effort could go on for 10 years - at a comfortable distribution of 100 Million ATX/year (after launching), making the total possible to be issued, a total of 1 Billion ATX tokens. This is being shown purely for transparency and will be used as control guidance internally, but will not be an enforced rule. It could take more time to issue the total amount of tokens, or it could take less.

### Initial Distribution Channels

The first ATX tokens have started distribution via the [HPUD Giveaway](/atexoras-atx/tokenomics/issuing-channels/hpud-giveaway.md), in order to set direction on where this initiative could help.

Following that initiative, a month later, the [ATX 🍺 Pub](/atexoras-atx/participation/accounts/atx-pub.md) enabled the [Hive Pubs Community](/atexoras-atx/tokenomics/issuing-channels/hive-pubs-community.md) were posts could start getting issued ATX too, based on value and random selection. The details of that initiative are in [this](https://ecency.com/hive-178961/@atexoras.pub/the-pub-gatherings-evolution-level-1) post (in the "New Pub 🍺 Format 🚧" part).

Finally, after the creation of the ATX:SWAP.HIVE pool, we have enabled the ATX to be distributed via contract on the rewards pool. Check it you at [5 Years of Rewards Pool (ATX:SWAP.HIVE)](/atexoras-atx/tokenomics/issuing-channels/5-years-of-rewards-pool-atx-swap.hive.md).

This last one was the epoch of what we call, the [Initial Distribution](/atexoras-atx/tokenomics/initial-distribution.md): 105606000 ATX tokens to be contract-based distributed over 5 years time-span.

Along with these initiatives, more could be planned and announced at a later stage. Although we consider those outside of the [Initial Distribution](/atexoras-atx/tokenomics/initial-distribution.md).


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