Austin Castellaw

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

Fully backed and over collateralized — Every stablecoin issued is backed by reserve assets in a vault that represents more than 100% of the total Stablecoins issued.

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

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.

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 people

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-Yearn started just doing grants or gifts for contributors after they did great work. Some studies have shown that financial incentives can inhibit creativity. Coordinape is based on the gift economy where every month there is a budget and the members receive give tokens which they can give to people and people receive compensation based on those... See more

There are a variety of different strategies that can be employed to achieve a long term, stable value for a token. ‘Locking tokens’ is one of these strategies and is commonly seen as an effective way to keep a token’s value high in the long run. Token lockup refers to a specific period of time during which the tokens cannot be transacted or traded.... See more