Austin Castellaw

In this third part, I’m going to cover utility. Utility is a subsection of the Demand side of the tokenomics equation. Even if a token has a great supply model, it still needs a good reason to exist and for people to hold it. Without those, there will be no demand for it, and no one will buy or hold it.

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

If you look at the social DAO landscape, you’ll see communities with different social token models. Some, like FWB, use a fungible social token to gate community access. Many emerging PFP-based communities like BAYC use NFTs as the primary community gating mechanism. Whether fungible or non-fungible, social tokens in DAOs usually represent three... See more

Hybrid — Some projects like Frax Finance use a hybrid approach to find a balance between these issues. The peg to USD is algorithmically maintained, but they also have reserves available to handle periods of extreme volatility and market demand. This strategy seems the most likely to survive long term.

Reputation tokens on digital platforms typically serve two purposes:

Is Coordinape a perfect tool ?

Summary: If you assume the next 5 years of crypto venture funds produce blended 10x returns, then (based on recent investing volumes) these cohorts of token projects will need to produce an estimated $2T of market cap and over $800B of float would enter markets on a 5-10 year time horizon. This cannot be absorbed by retail; it will require... See more

Doesn’t this sound great? Well, yes! Now, this is just one of the many examples of this ability to “Web3-anize” assets, i.e to convert from the older way of doing things to a newer model. I would like to further expound on this idea by just taking you on a journey to envision what an increasingly tokenized world could look like.