# Adjusting the current inflation model to sustain Treasury inflow

**URL:** https://forum.polkadot.network/t/adjusting-the-current-inflation-model-to-sustain-treasury-inflow/3301
**Category:** Governance
**Tags:** treasury
**Created:** [July 5, 2023, 7:22am UTC](https://forum.polkadot.network/t/adjusting-the-current-inflation-model-to-sustain-treasury-inflow/3301 "2023-07-05T07:22:15Z")
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### Author: ![rich](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/forum.polkadot.network/rich/32/159_2.png) [@rich](https://forum.polkadot.network/u/rich)
#### Post date: [July 15, 2023, 1:23pm UTC](https://forum.polkadot.network/t/adjusting-the-current-inflation-model-to-sustain-treasury-inflow/3301/39 "2023-07-15T13:23:04Z")

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> [@lucasvo](#):
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> Here’s how you could frame treasury spending: it’s basically Polkadot’s R&D, ecosystem development and marketing budget.

Perhaps even simpler than that, the treasury exists to bootstrap demand for coretime and all spending can be assessed through that lens. At some point spending on R&D that extends say the scalability of the systems, in the absence of demand, becomes wasteful.

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