So everyone will be able to vote on 11 users to become 'granters'; this works similar to the Steem witness vote but it is done with ENGN tokens. The top 11 users then split daily inflation of the ENGN token -- which they then presumably use to either a) fund their own development on Engine, using Engine, etc. or b) fund others' development on Engine, using Engine, etc., likely a combination of both.
That way, the network can be easily kickstarted without an ICO -- there will be a tiny giveaway of ENGN tokens at the beginning for who gets the first few ENGN (anyone can receive these, they just have to be precise with their timing; I'll be definitely getting some). Then these owners of the first ENGN vote on granters who then start receiving the newly minted ENGN. Right now I'm not sure how the ENGN inflation curve will work; I'm thinking of doing some sort of tweaked logarithmic or something... Any ideas on how to make a good curve (some sort of formula for at day X how many ENGN Y are distributed to granters...).