From what I have heard the idea was that we would eventually launch SMTs, these SMTs would be tied to HIVE in that it would cost HIVE to create them and then it would also require resource credits to keep them running, more resource credits being required the bigger the token/community were to get.

That's the way I understood it to be.

Everything that runs on top of HIVE absolutely has to work like that.

Everything!

Otherwise, someone's getting a free lunch while someone else is footing the bill.