The Datamine Network has reached a major milestone in its multi-year journey toward absolute decentralization. By reducing centralized social media dependencies down to a single point, the ecosystem is executing the final phases of fully decentralizing the core DAM and FLUX tokens. ## The Road to Absolute Decentralization From its initial launch on June 8, 2020, Datamine has prioritized an immutable, ownerless, and smart contract-driven architecture. Unlike typical DeFi platforms governed by centralized companies, venture capital firms, or admin keys, the Datamine smart contract system operates autonomously. This design eliminates single points of failure, ensuring that the monetary protocols run independently without relying on private servers or human intervention. ## Decoupling DAM and FLUX The final steps to decentralize DAM and FLUX solidify their status as trustless, public-goods protocols. As the ecosystem's foundational assets, DAM serves as the capped supply layer (16,876,779 tokens) locked on Layer 1 to mint FLUX. This minting and burning framework is entirely hardcoded. By removing remaining administrative touchpoints, Datamine ensures that token emissions, burning mechanics, and equilibrium metrics remain completely immutable on-chain. With the core code finalized and audited by Slow Mist, these final updates guarantee that the smart contracts will continue executing indefinitely, entirely driven by the community, validators, and decentralized liquidity.