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

Algorithmic — The value and supply of algorithmic stablecoins are controlled by code. If the demand for the coin starts to increase rapidly, the protocol automatically creates more coins to bring the price down. If the value drops too low, some of the supply is burned to bring the price back up.

Social tokens have shown their efficiency on incentivizing individuals to share their skills with others. Projects that have succeeded in creating thriving communities all have strong Tokenomics. Tokenomics is a successful community’s superpower.

Blockchains charge a monetary fee to the users proportional to the computational burden the nodes must verify. Thus, on this monolithic stack, the computation cost is quite high. Developers have been forced to write their code around such constraints, not being able to express the true potential of on-chain applications.

-Most atomize compensation by role and piece work. Perhaps a third way where something like core contributors have a base role and then are rewarded for extra work. Compensation can be hard to pin down for roles like business development or strategy.

Games like Axie Infinity, Crabada, and The Sandbox belong to this category.