# Token Utility ### - Utility of SYNTH SYNTH serves as the primary medium of exchange and value settlement within SynthOS. Its use cases span across robotic services, AI agents, and decentralized infrastructure: #### Gas for Machine-to-Machine Transactions SYNTH acts as the gas token enabling robot-to-robot and agent-to-agent communication and execution.\ Every autonomous interaction such as robots negotiating tasks, agents verifying data, or modules executing computations requires SYNTH for transaction settlement. #### Payment Unit in SynthOS Marketplace Developers and providers list robotic services, AI modules, and datasets in the SynthOS Marketplace.\ Users and enterprises pay for these resources directly in SYNTH, establishing it as the universal unit of account within the ecosystem. #### Staking Collateral for Security & Governance Network participants must stake SYNTH to secure the protocol.\ Stakers participate in governance, voting on upgrades, payout rules, and economic parameters.\ Misbehavior such as malicious activity results in slashing, ensuring security is economically enforced. --- # Agent Instructions: Querying This Documentation If you need additional information that is not directly available in this page, you can query the documentation dynamically by asking a question. Perform an HTTP GET request on the current page URL with the `ask` query parameter: ``` GET https://docs.synthos.link/usdsynth-token/token-utility.md?ask= ``` The question should be specific, self-contained, and written in natural language. The response will contain a direct answer to the question and relevant excerpts and sources from the documentation. Use this mechanism when the answer is not explicitly present in the current page, you need clarification or additional context, or you want to retrieve related documentation sections.