They also have a Technical Scheme of compensation for the community that encourages all those developers to undertake and use the technology of "Ontology" for their endeavors. ONT only began trading in March, 2018 and the history behind it is the more interesting. Unlike many of the startups that get into cryptocurrency via ICOs, Ontology carried out an airdrop. It involved 20 million ONT tokens being given to NEO holders at the time of the airdrop. It works similarly to NEO in that it utilizes the Ontology Gas (ONG) to transact on the platform.