# Role of Various Community-Driven Valuations Our community-driven valuation design is a source of immense pride for us and a token launch model that we believe others will use or take inspiration from in the future. By designing our initial emission event in this way, we’ve put the future of VAPE fully in the hands of our capable community. Here’s a quick rundown on why each of these community-driven values is important. * Cost to Acquire creates and quantifies an organic profitability floor * Initial Valuation uses Cost to Acquire plus a subjective/aspirational markup value to establish a new valuation * Market Valuation requires individuals to pair their VAPE with the real value of VAPE, ensuring that someone isn’t likely to create the secondary market at a 1000x the token’s cost to acquire * Cost to Acquire also ensures that the Market Valuation isn’t less than the initial genesis valuation, unless the community is willing to lose value on the secondary market --- # Agent Instructions: Querying This Documentation If you need additional information that is not directly available in this page, you can query the documentation dynamically by asking a question. Perform an HTTP GET request on the current page URL with the `ask` query parameter: ``` GET https://docs.vapordex.io/vapordex/vape-token/genesis/role-of-various-community-driven-valuations.md?ask= ``` The question should be specific, self-contained, and written in natural language. The response will contain a direct answer to the question and relevant excerpts and sources from the documentation. Use this mechanism when the answer is not explicitly present in the current page, you need clarification or additional context, or you want to retrieve related documentation sections.