XFuel is an ‘internal development token’ that the team created ‘out of thin air’ and used as a means of payment for work that was completed. The team promised there would be transparency into the distribution of XFuel, but nothing has come of it. The truth is that we do not know exactly how freely XFuel was distributed, nor do we know how much XFuel each team member holds. Ashley had said that Dave and Borz pay themselves 1 million coins each every 2 weeks, but who knows how much truth there is to that.

Point being, did the team really ‘pay’ thousands of dollars? No, not really. Imagine if any time you needed money, you had the ability to just create some out of thin air. That’s what they did. Is it thousands of dollars? That’s determined by the market. But did they really work for it or did they just ‘wave a wand’ and make it so? We don’t know. There are so many questions surrounding XFuel and its distribution— questions which were promised to be answered, which years later now have not been addressed.

Either way, of course the team paid for it. They need it to be listed on an exchange so that they can sell their stake. I’d imagine most team members have a hefty supply built up that they want to unload on the market in order to get some fiat. It’s in their best interest to get XFuel listed, no matter the cost to do so.