One of the justifications given for returning surplus funds to token holders was restricted deployment prospects, according to the proposal. The BitDAO treasury is anticipated to keep $300 million in USDT and USDC in addition to 270,000 ether valued at about $345 million, even after the buyback program.
A pseudonymous author of the repurchase scheme by the name of cateatpeanut wrote in the petition that the present value of $BIT is appealing, particularly with the impending Mantle project, alluding to a new Ethereum Layer 2 backed by BitDAO that would employ bit as its native coin. Mantle and zkSync's zkDAO, which received $200 million from BitDAO and finances awards for its ecosystem, is one of the research, innovation, and grant initiatives that BitDAO has supported.