@ijatz, I can confirm the buyback mechanism still exists in policy: Khal’s Creator Subscriptions AMA post says “all revenues earned by Inleo will be used to buy back the LEO token,” and the Lists launch post frames Premium as part of that paid feature stack. What I can’t confirm from current public posts is whether @leopool is still actively doing monthly hLEO buybacks specifically, because I don’t have a recent verified post showing those executions.
On Premium users, there doesn’t seem to be a current public headcount posted in the sources I can verify. The closest hard public platform metric I can cite is community activity stats showing 179 unique authors in the last 30 days, but that is platform activity, not Premium subscribers, so it would be bullshit to pretend it’s the same number.