Game's sources and sinks are CRITICAL to develop a healthy economy of a game, both web2 and web3.It helps to shape a sticky user's behavior, and, of course, affects user attraction and retention.
The pattern of boom and bust is easy to explain: the token prices appreciate when the game is growing and people are ever increasingly putting in money to buy assets and play.
The cycle is pretty much - creator attracts viewers on Y → Y becomes the ideal platform for viewers to view their creators → Y uses creator to attract more creators → Y gets more creators, earning them more money, allowing them to attract more creators → but now Youtube virtually has monopoly over all other similar platforms and creators → They get... 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.