Austin Castellaw

And so when people are designing these incentive mechanisms and tokens, what types of factors are they considering? Whether it’s things like fairness or liquidity or security or the developer ecosystem, or I’m sure there’s plenty of other considerations. But what do you find that people are thinking about and tend to value? For some of the... See more

Reputation tokens on digital platforms typically serve two purposes:

StepN isn't a P2E. It's a social fitness app. Different user demographic.  Running is a perpetual activity for those who wish to keep themselves fit.  Hence, StepN's base players are more sticky compared to other games.

If the token distribution is easy to game, value extractors will find a way maximize the number of tokens they earnTokens spent on these entities have a negative benefit, as the project doesn't receive real users or growth in return

So what IS SourceCred?

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.

Economic valueGovernance rightsMembership & access

Through off-chain scaling, users will have access to unlimited computation at a cheap cost. Thus, games' logic could be finally deployed on-chain as smart contracts. We will refer to this family of games as strongly on-chain games.