What is a "gtc" neuron?

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I see in the governance canister that there are two methods that make mention of a ‘gtc’ neuron:

claim_gtc_neuron and transfer_gtc_neuron.

can anyone tell me what these two functions do?

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GTC stands for genesis token canister, a canister running on the NNS subnet.

If you take a look at any neuron on the dashboard, you will notice that it has a “is genesis” field. The tooltip says that it “indicates whether this is a genesis neuron that was given to early contributors and seed donors.”

And that’s the answer: Early contributors and seed donors could request the creation of their locked neurons by calling the claim_gtc_neuron endpoint on the genesis token canister.

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