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# Shard Essence Token

## Shard Essence Token (SHARD)

Shard Essence is made throughout the Kingdom by pulverizing shards from all 4 regions and mixing the shard dusts into infused pellets. Shard essence can be infused into core crafting elements or heated into powerful enhancement gems to enhance a characters core traits, weapons and gear. Those with enough stock can mold large parts of weapons and gear-sets from it. The Shard Essence token will have a maximum supply of 500 million tokens.

SHARD token will be available on Ethereum and Binance Smart Chain in late 2022. In 2023 an AFT/SHARD pairing (on ETH and BSC) will be added to the Banana Kingdoms central marketplace. A full tokenomics breakdown can be found [here](/afg-whitepaper/game-and-guild-tokenomics/a-complete-breakdown.md#section-4-banana-kingdom-token-tokenomics).