Austin Castellaw

The total market cap of all stablecoins is close to $200B. This represents around 10% of the entire crypto industry. They have quickly become a critically important piece of most DeFi products. There are several ways to create a dollar-pegged token, and each strategy comes with some tradeoffs.

Distributing tokens to users through airdrops and ongoing liquidity incentives: Airdrops distribute tokens to users based on their past actions. They may be high-value users of other protocols or have previously used the present protocol — however, this approach rewards past behavior over future commitment. There is no assurance that these pe

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The network nodes can verify the attached proofs several orders of magnitude faster and cheaper than verifying the computation itself, thus enabling complex computation at a pretty cheap cost, such as gaming dynamics.

To provide a form of compensation that enables contributors to liquefy some of the value they have created into an exchangeable currency.

But there are other issues:

Defensibility in web2 comes from proprietary data network effects. Each application is a walled garden, and a bigger user base translates into more utility vs. competitors.  The social network with most data, content, users, etc. is more valuable.