- Transaction fees are paid by users when they trade dApp tokens with CHR
- Hosting fees are paid by dApps/Games directly to node Providers for their services
- Medium of exchange. To purchase dApp tokens, users have to buy CHR on the market.
- CHR is needs to be staked to create a validator
- Governance. CHR token will be used as a governance token

- Yield Farming (tokens get paired with CHR thus increasing demand for CHR)
- Medium of exchange to buy game currencies.
- Dapps need to pay hosting fees for used nodes.
- Collateral for node providers to validate blocks.
- In future: Governance and voting. 

Chromia offers efficient and cost-effective side-chains for decentralized applications (dApps) and games. Its competitive advantage is low transaction fees and high throughput. Users would use CHR for transaction fees like ETH does now. Games and dApp developers were attracted by the capabilities to deploy their apps on Chromia sidechains quickly and collect aforementioned fees directly from users.

The Chromia protocol currently needs a means of generating revenue, as the protocol has NO built-in income sources. All the fees collected from users for token swaps go to Dapps developers. The only designed source of token flow to the Treasury is % of transaction fees that should feed the System Node Compensation Fund. But this fund is designed to cover the expenses of system node Providers who don’t get paid by dApps.

The protocol has no direct ways to get revenue from running the blockchain. The only way for the treasury to increase in value is to increase CHR price