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The anime industry is booming, and is projected to grow to $60 billion by 2030. Yet, despite its massive popularity, the AnimeCoin Foundation sees a significant opportunity to tap into fans who have remained passive consumers of the art form. Intending to build an open and decentralized anime universe, the AnimeCoin Foundation is launching ANIME, a token designed better to align incentives between creators and fans of the genre.  Here’s everything you need to know about ANIME before its launch, which is scheduled for sometime this month.  What is ANIME? ANIME is described as a “culture coin” dropping on Ethereum and the Arbitrum layer-2 network. Launched by the AnimeCoin Foundation, ANIME will hold a total supply of 10 billion tokens, more than 50% of which will be given to the Web3 community, headlined by its premier launch partner, Azuki—a prominent NFT collection and crypto-native IP. Of the 10 billion token supply, nearly 77% will be unlocked immediately for trading upon launch. When is ANIME dropping?  A formal date has not been announced, but the ANIME token is expected to launch in January, according to a recent announcement by the AnimeCoin Foundation.  Who will get the ANIME airdrop?  The ANIME token supply will be distributed in six distinct buckets, allocating more than 5 billion or 50% of the total supply to the Web3 community.  Azuki community The largest allocation of ANIME, 37.5%, is set aside for claiming by the Azuki community. As the premier launch partner of ANIME, it is expected that holders of all three significant NFT collections—Azuki, Azuki Elementals, and BEANZ Official—will be eligible to claim the ANIME token.  Though no specifics were provided about the allocations afforded to each NFT from the Azuki community, the project has long utilized a points system or “Collector’s Status” within its user…

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