# $A51 & Its Utility

The $A51 token serves as the native token of the A51 protocol and has multiple utilities:

1. **Revenue Sharing**: By staking $A51 tokens, holders are eligible to receive 50% of the protocol's revenue.
2. **Governance**: Staking $A51 also grants users the ability to participate in the governance of the protocol.

The $A51 token is live on Arbitrum and Polygon.

**Arbitrum**

Token address: 0xB3F13B0C61d65D67D7D6215d70C89533ee567A91

Uniswap V3 pool address: 0xbf79275cf760196f2369d0d8ac43f816a98ded55

Balancer V2 pool address: 0x934d3c04f0603332d6e182bf33289bc4c905fc22

**Polygon**

Token address: 0xe9e7c09e82328c3107d367f6c617cf9977e63ed0

Quickswap pool address: 0x86a448e1d9c1a31c093fa66f42b096a98297b072

**CoinGecko Page:** [**https://www.coingecko.com/en/coins/a51-finance**](https://www.coingecko.com/en/coins/a51-finance)

## Protocol Revenue

A51 is paired on Balancer with ETH at an 80-20 ratio. The LPs in the pool receive protocol revenue. The project will use 50% of the protocol revenue to purchase WETH (Wrapped Ether), which will then be distributed as a reward to those who have staked their A51 tokens in the Balancer A51-ETH pool.

## **Stake to Participate in Governance**

The A51-ETH LP holders vote on oA51 emissions. More on this [here](https://docs.a51.finance/carbon/usda51-token/foo-tokenomics).