# Why Berry exists New token projects can attract attention, but that does not create durable funding for ongoing work. Revenue appears early, depends on trading activity, and often arrives before meaningful work is done. ### Token fees only reward volume, not work Most dev revenue comes from trading fees, not from ongoing execution. A token doing about $1M in volume produces roughly $6,000 in fees for the dev, and quiet weeks pay nothing. ### The payday lands before the build The largest volume usually happens at launch, before the team has shipped anything substantial. Once attention fades, the financial incentive to keep building often fades with it. ### Investors fund the volume and receive nothing structural Investors generate the trading volume that pays the dev. They take the speculative risk and can end up holding a token whose dev may have already extracted the main payday. ### How Berry Pools aligns this * Devs get a real raise upfront with structured terms. * Investors enter below market with built in yield. * Both sides win from the same outcome, the token doing well long term. --- # Agent Instructions: Querying This Documentation If you need additional information that is not directly available in this page, you can query the documentation dynamically by asking a question. Perform an HTTP GET request on the current page URL with the `ask` query parameter: ``` GET https://docs.berryfi.org/introduction/why-berry-exists.md?ask= ``` The question should be specific, self-contained, and written in natural language. The response will contain a direct answer to the question and relevant excerpts and sources from the documentation. Use this mechanism when the answer is not explicitly present in the current page, you need clarification or additional context, or you want to retrieve related documentation sections.