Revenue-tied tokenomics automation: governed burns & adaptive minting

Beyond Decentralization Theater Most projects treat governance as marketing. Launch a token, create a DAO structure, announce that "the community is in control," then make every meaningful decision through backroom coordination because actual community participation is too slow, too contentious, or too uninformed to be practical. I get why this happens. Governance is genuinely hard. Participation rates hover around 5-10% even in well-established protocols. Proposals get approved or rejected based on campaigns rather than careful analysis. Token holders vote with their attention elsewhere because they don't actually believe their input matters. But the alternative (centralized teams making all decisions while claiming decentralization) is ultimately unsustainable. You can't build credible economic systems when the community suspects every decision serves team interests first. You can't attract serious capital when governance is theater and everyone knows it. PIP-04 is our attempt to break this pattern. The proposal isn't about whether NodeOps should implement better tokenomics eventually, pending team approval and market timing. It's about whether you—token holders, infrastructure users, community members—want to activate these mechanics now and take responsibility for managing them going forward.