Austin Castellaw

So, what types of tokens should be used for which community purposes? As with most things in life, the answer is: it’s complicated! Each DAO needs to evaluate what type of community they are trying to build and determine the right combination of assets for economics, governance, and membership. But, generally speaking, we think it makes more sense... See more

As players earn and extract money out of the gaming economy it puts significant downward pressure on prices, as most people are just cashing out their winnings and not reinvesting back into the game.

Yet these two roles are in opposition to each other. A token needs to be exchangeable in order to be liquid. But the more liquid a token is, the less effective it can be as a pure signal of reputation. 

Delphi Digital has been analyzing and helping design token launching mechanisms for a long time. From the analysis, the team noted that there wasn’t a structure that could solve the above challenges and also align to its goals. The team then came up with Lockdrop and Liquidity Bootstrap Auction (LBA) to tackle these challenges. The first products... See more

I think one of the most important things is for protocol teams or communities to first figure out what it is that they’re trying to accomplish and what their token specifically will be used for. For a lot of work token models like KEEP, NuCypher, or The Graph, the token is used to provide a service — the token is serving as a tax medallion. And so... See more

Web3 emphasizes the freedom of the individual. In an ideal Web3 world, creator A is on a decentralized platform Z instead, which is run by smart contracts and gives creators more of their revenue. On top of that, platform Z probably has some tokens like $ZDAO that control governance - and this tokenization of governance disallows unilateral... See more

Obligated/Friendly Votes are mostly happening in big DAOs. In this case members will give to others just because they personally like them or because another member has a “higher role’ so they feel obligated to give them something. it may also happen because you naturally have more visibility over what your friends are doing.

And if nearly the entire audience who is playing the game is only there to make money, as soon as the earning possibilities go away so too does the audience, and then the game rapidly falls apart.