Quite unclear to me as well. Some algo’s will figure out how the network is doing. Here’s another topic about it. But still, no clear answer to your question:
Introduction
The SAFE network can be seen as a decentralized autonomous non-profit organization. It has internal capital, in the sense that it can recycle and issue new SafeCoins (to a limited extent). It has income in SafeCoin from clients PUTting data. It also has expenditures in SafeCoin by sometimes rewarding vaults who successfully serve data GETs. Another (relatively minor) group of expenditures is app popularity rewards (which for simplicity I’ll further ignore).
So in a way SAFE can be…