Quote from: FC Arsenal on February 27, 2018, 01:48:32 PM

Is it clear how contributors will be paid back? once you have established how the project makes money, how does a contributor get some of it?

From the ADAMANT Whitepaper (Page 24):

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«ADAMANT Grows»
To make ADM tokens even more valuable, all the dedicated for the ICO campaign tokens
being unsold will be distributed among the actual ADM owners their wallet balances
will proportionally grow by 5% monthly for an estimate period of a one year after the ICO
ends up.
As far as ADM is an Utility-token which is used to maintain the network infrastructure, the
ADAMANT Grows system is only aimed to protect the conceptual system aspect and not
suitable for gaining profits.
This distribution will be eventually stopped with the ICO wallet depletion.
Therefore, the earlier youll support ADAMANT, and the longer youll hold your tokens, the
more grow-bonuses youll get.
● Distribution beginning: 04/11/2018
● Distribution period: monthly
● Growth percent: 5%
● Distribution closure: eventually with ICO wallet depletion.
These wallets do not participate in token distribution campaign:
1. All initial system wallets (ICO, investors rewards, Adoption, reserve wallets);
2. Wallets with their balance being less than 10 ADM tokens.
The information about each distribution round details is open (hence will be published on
an official website) and all growth transactions are visible through the ADAMANT
Explorer.

From the ADAMANT Whitepaper (Page 14):

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Infrastructure maintaining and ADM token forging (mining)
ADAMANT infrastructure is handled by a system of distributed servers that are running
full nodes (blockchain). All servers support expenses are covered by ADM tokens forging:
1. Transaction fees
2. Rewards for blocks forging.
To participate in forging process, a node should be registered as a network delegate and
afterwards receive enough votes from ADAMANT users. Delegate registration fee is 3000
ADM. An ADAMANT user voting for another delegate is required to pay 50 ADM.
DPoS scheme functioning algorithm is based on a voting process that proceed in real-time
mode (with the use of the reputation level of the network members) which is aimed to
create a list of trusted nodes (delegates). After being elected, delegates have the
legitimate right to create and verify blocks for adding them to the blockchain and also
prevent invasion into the process. These nodes forge (create) blocks one after another in
an order that randomly changes after each round.
Delegates do forge (obtain or earn) themselves ADM tokens when creating new blocks.
The amount of tokens being produced this way is constantly increasing. With the system
inception it was to be 0.5 ADM per 1 block, but each 6 307 200 blocks (approximately a
year in real time) this number decreases by 0.05 ADM till fit 0.1 ADM. This forging reward
increase is going to motivate all delegates to manage the increasing network loads.
Regarding the calculations, the delegates will gain these rewards approximately for 140
years, after which the infrastructure will be fully supported by transaction commissions
only.
The number of active delegates participating in blocks forging is 101. In case when their
number is lower than that, these 101 votes will be allocated among the existing members
which operate as a full node. The minimum amount of such nodes is 3. The whole system
becomes more stable and reliable with the amount of nodes increasing.
To create (or forge) new blocks using DPoS, an election do take place in which 101 delegate
members are chosen from the delegate pool in order to make all ongoing 101 blocks.
The voting is executed by nods (all wallet owners) automatically, based on the trust in
particular delegates and their online uptime. After all delegates are being chosen, they are
given an order in which new blocks should be formed. Creating a que of 101 blocks
approximately takes 8 minutes.
Important to note however, that the payment for block forging starts only after the
sequence of 2,000,000 first blocks is being created. This measure guarantees that the
initial network participants wont get their tokens with the minimum amount of effort.

Other than these two incentives, you can sell your tokens when they're listed on exchanges.

Please see the ADAMANT Whitepaper to gain a deeper understanding:
https://adamant.im/whitepaper/adamant-whitepaper-en.pdf