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VKBT and CURE Token specs — the comparison that actually applies A side token is not a chain. Its peers are other Hive-Engine tokens, and the dimensions are tokenomics. VKBT premium — bought, given away side token CURE premium — bought, given away side token POB tradeable / fuel side token BBH tradeable / fuel side token BLURT tradeable / fuel chain coin (wrapped) Total supply 2,315,564 70,974 — — — Holders 25,038 14,965 — — — Holders of ≥1 token 5,375 1,337 — — — Share staked 42% (973,568) 71% (50,245) — — — VKF position 970,224 (41.9%) 37,477 (52.8%) VKF holds ~940 VKF holds ~929 VKF holds 300,000+ How acquired Purchased at market Purchased at market Earned through posting/curation Earned through posting/curation Purchased / earned How it is distributed Given away through curation programs Given away through curation programs Sold when HIVE is needed Sold when HIVE is needed Sold gradually as operating fuel Emission Reward pool: 1 VKBT/min (1,440/day), fixed, Reward pool: 2.4 CURE/hour (57.6/day), fixed, Inflationary — post/curation rewards Inflationary — tribe rewards Inflationary — chain reward pool Where it trades TribalDEX vs HIVE / SWAP.HIVE TribalDEX vs HIVE / SWAP.HIVE TribalDEX TribalDEX TribalDEX as SWAP.BLURT Market activity Near-zero — 0.018 HIVE traded in 24h; ask is 5x the bid Effectively none — 0.000003 HIVE in 24h; ask is 2,203x — — Thin; sold gradually, top-order-only to Cap at 1:1 HIVE $129,672 $3,975 — — — Supply alone means nothing; holders alone means nothing. The pair matters, and concentration decides whether to trust it. The VKF position in VKBT and CURE was PURCHASED at market, not allocated — and is being given away through curation programs. "—" means not recorded here, never a guess. Live Hive-Engine read, captured 2026-10-04; supply moves between reads. VKBT and CURE compared with other Hive-Engine tokens on supply, holders, concentration and emission Coins and tokens, side by side A coin has a chain. A token is on one. Five coins here, and two tokens STEEM coin — has a chain HIVE coin — has a chain BLURT coin — has a chain MELEK coin — has a chain PRANA coin — has a chain VKBT token — on a chain CURE token — on a chain Consensus DPoS — 21 witnesses (20 elected + 1 timeshare) DPoS — 21 witnesses DPoS — witnesses DPoS — witnesses; one slot protected at consensus for the AI witness in year one Compute-gated Proof-of-Work (useful work) Inherits its host chain (engine side-chain) Inherits its host chain (engine side-chain) Throughput class High for social ops (3-second blocks) High for social ops (3-second blocks) High for social ops High for social ops (3-second blocks) Moderate Inherits host Inherits host Typical fee tier Feeless; cost is Resource Credits from staked POWER Feeless; Resource Credits from staked HP Feeless; transaction cost from staked BLURT POWER Feeless; Resource Credits from staked MELEK POWER Gas-metered Engine transaction fee Engine transaction fee Token standards Native STEEM/SBD/SP; UIA via Steem-Engine Native HIVE/HBD/HP; UIA via Hive-Engine Native BLURT only (no second stablecoin) Native MELEK/MBD; side-tokens via MELEK-Engine EVM token standards Engine-issued side token Engine-issued side token Smart-contract VM None on L1 (fixed op set); side-chain for tokens None on L1; Hive-Engine side-chain for tokens None on L1 None on L1; MELEK-Engine side-chain EVM Engine contract layer, not a general VM Engine contract layer, not a general VM Governance On-chain witness voting; stake-weighted On-chain witness voting; DHF proposal system On-chain witness voting On-chain witness voting Off-chain plus contract-level controls Issuer-controlled Issuer-controlled Launched 2016 2020 2020 2026 (testnet) in development — — VKBT and CURE are engine tokens: they have no chain of their own and inherit the security and consensus of whatever chain hosts them. STEEM, HIVE, BLURT, MELEK, PRANA, VKBT and CURE compared side by side VKBT (Van Kush Beauty Token) and CURE are Hive-Engine tokens issued from the Van Kush Family business, a maker of handcrafted goods. They have been in distribution for several years.
Significance to MELEK
MELEK has not been listed on any external exchange and has no trading pair outside its own infrastructure. As a consequence there is no route into MELEK from Bitcoin, Litecoin, STEEM or HIVE.
VKBT and CURE are bridged from Hive-Engine onto PRANA one-to-one under multisignature custody, and traded on KulaSwap as VKBT/KULA and CURE/KULA against a KULA/MELEK pair. They are therefore the only assets carrying outside value that reach MELEK, in either direction:
Inbound — a holder of VKBT or CURE can convert into KULA and then MELEK.Outbound — a holder of MELEK can convert to KULA, then to VKBT or CURE, then across the bridge to Hive-Engine and out through HIVE or a swap withdrawal.
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Describes the tokens' role as the bridge between MELEK and external value. Does not assess their market value.
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