# Shadow Token (SHDW) — machine-readable summary

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## Definition
SHDW powers Shadow, a decentralized physical infrastructure (DePIN) network built by GenesysGo providing decentralized storage (Shadow Drive), compute, and RPC services for the Solana ecosystem.

## What the holder owns (FORA-01 Q1)
SHDW is the payment token of the Shadow ecosystem, a decentralized physical infrastructure network developed by GenesysGo on Solana. Its documented function is paying for data storage on Shadow Drive, the network's decentralized storage layer. Coinbase states this consistently; the token is a straightforward pay-for-resource utility token rather than a governance or yield instrument.

## Verification verdict
Class C (Class C) — FORA-01 scale: verification, not a quality ranking.
q1 VERIFIED · q2 UNVERIFIED · q3 UNVERIFIED · q4 UNVERIFIED · q5 UNVERIFIED

## Plain-language utility
Pays for decentralized storage on the Shadow network.

## Key risks & notes
No formal whitepaper exists for Shadow Token; this summary is drawn from GenesysGo's official materials and third-party regulatory filings, not from a project-published whitepaper. SHDW is concentrated around the Solana ecosystem and the GenesysGo team; the operator set historically started small (~27 initial operators), so decentralization and resilience depend on continued operator growth.

## Primary source
- (no whitepaper found — drawn from official project documentation)

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