Austin Castellaw

Spending vs HoldingCash flowsGovernanceCollateral

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.

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.

The total market cap of all stablecoins is close to $200B. This represents around 10% of the entire crypto industry. They have quickly become a critically important piece of most DeFi products. There are several ways to create a dollar-pegged token, and each strategy comes with some tradeoffs.

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 pe

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