In Chengdu, filling up a tank of gas has recently hurt noticeably. A few days ago, I passed a gas station and saw the price on the screen had risen by about a third since the beginning of the year. On X, I saw @tankdotcash say you can get some of that money back—the mechanism is a 3% tax on every $TANK transaction: 2% goes to the treasury to be converted into ETH, and 1% goes to Pons for uploading gas receipts after verification. Non-holders get 12% USDG back; holders get 30%. After reading it the first time, what I cared about wasn’t whether the story was compelling—it was who reviews the receipts. Receipts are physical documents, inherently prone to fraud. Manual review at scale becomes a black hole; automated review becomes a constant arms race against fraud costs. That’s the real barrier for projects like this—not clever tax design, but whether verification of real spending can outpace forgery. Right now, it’s still “Coming Soon”—whether the treasury can hold up or if trading volume will drop enough to make taxes insufficient—all speculative. Once it actually launches, the first data point I want to see isn’t the total cashback amount—it’s the percentage of rejected receipts. 😂 Disclosure: Not investment advice. #DYOR