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# What is PAPA?

PAPA is the secondary token issued by Papaya protocol.

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PAPA is **not** a governance token 
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PAPA captures the fee revenue that is generated by the system and incentivizes early adopters.

PAPA holders can stake their tokens to redeem a portion the fees generated by trades on the Proactive Market Maker as STX as well as fees collected from PoX Stacking rewards as sBTC.