Does the HEAT token have any purpose, i.e. BNB coin maybe?
It definitely does. All tx fees on HEAT p2p network are paid in HEAT token. This means fees for current and future services on the public HEAT network, such as:
- Fund transfers
- Asset transfers
- Asset creation and other operations such as whitelisting a market
- Messaging fees
- Forging stake contribution
- Microservice fees
- Partnership service fees from contracted companies
Simply, the HEAT token is the blood of the decentralized service network called HEAT, which is still in its infancy regarding commercial, high volume service offerings. Humming along soon 18 months, proper and fit for the proliferation of incoming decentralized services.
anybody knows if they(heat) plan to opensource it ever, if yes, any idea when is that going to happen?
Still plans to be open sourced highly likely. At a time when it offers competitive advantage for HEAT (instead of competitors only, as would be the case now) or when it makes no difference.