> For the complete documentation index, see [llms.txt](https://docs.yin.finance/llms.txt). Markdown versions of documentation pages are available by appending `.md` to page URLs; this page is available as [Markdown](https://docs.yin.finance/faq/general.md).

# General

### Where is your team?

We are a decentraised team with members across North America, Asia Pacific and the European Union.

## YIN Token Model

**Details of TGE/Unlock schedule**

Unlock time is different for investment institutions and investors that participate in different stages. Please refer to [YIN Allocation & Release](https://yinfinancemaker.github.io/YinTokenChart/) for more details.

### **YIN Token can be used for:**

* **Governance**

  Yin Finance is based on the support of community. After the ecosystem becomes more mature and the token distribution distributes more extensive, Yin Finance will be gradually turned into Dao mode, and the future development of the protocol will be determined by the community governance mode.

* **Staking**

  In order to incentivize users to participate in perpetual contract governance, YIN holder stake their token into the staking pool can be rewarded. Pledgor will acquire a portiom of trading fee and staking rewards (one staking Epoch every 7 days) generated by transaction.