People are tired of getting rugged in crypto. Token buybacks are one attempt at restoring trust between tokenholders and teams. Another interesting approach is ownership coins. Popularized by @MetaDAOProject, this represents a new way to launch tokens, with prediction-market led, built-in governance and capital controls decided by tokenholders. Here's MetaDAO founder @metaproph3t from the @SolanaConf stage on the 2 ways tokenholders typically get rugged today (economic and exit) and how ownership coins solve this: "If you’re building a crypto-native business, you should launch a coin. You should raise from your users, the people who are going to shill you on Crypto Twitter as opposed to raising from private investors. What they don't explain is why you should launch an ownership coin. I think the key point there is people are tired of getting rugged in crypto. This has been a huge, huge problem. Both the problem of rugs like ‘yeah, this is a successful business. But actually, none of these cash flows go back to me as a token holder.’ I'm not even talking about buybacks. I'm talking about blatant rugs. Of teams just taking the money and running away, which has been like a pretty rampant problem in crypto."