# Currencies

Civitia is powered by Initia’s token INIT in order to make the game economy fully circular with in-game sinks and Initia’s native inflation.

On top of that, Civitia has one non-tradable in-game currency: Tax Points.\
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Additionally, Civitia SILVER and GOLD are soulbound tokens that reflect players activity and achievements in Civitia.

<table><thead><tr><th width="126">Currency</th><th width="148">Description</th><th>Utility</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td>INIT</td><td>Initia native token</td><td><p>Required to play and perform basic actions:</p><ul><li>Playing and paying rents</li><li>Minting city units</li></ul><p>All rent payments are also distributed to users in INIT.</p></td></tr><tr><td>Tax Points</td><td>Utility game currency</td><td><a href="contributions-and-tax-points">Tax points </a>can be earned and spent but are not transferable and therefore have no utility outside Civitia (they cannot be exchanged).</td></tr><tr><td>SILVER</td><td>Soulbound token</td><td><a href="../community/silver-and-gold">SILVER</a> is non-transferrable. It is a metric to show how much a user is contributing to Civitia.<br><br><a href="https://app.initia.xyz/vip">Initia's VIP distribution</a> is based on SILVER earnings.</td></tr><tr><td>GOLD</td><td>Soulbound token</td><td><a href="../community/silver-and-gold">GOLD</a> is non-transferrable. It is a metric to show how much a user contributed to Civitia Incentivized Testnet.</td></tr></tbody></table>