Austin Castellaw

If you look at the social DAO landscape, you’ll see communities with different social token models. Some, like FWB, use a fungible social token to gate community access. Many emerging PFP-based communities like BAYC use NFTs as the primary community gating mechanism. Whether fungible or non-fungible, social tokens in DAOs usually represent three di... See more

I think one of the most important things is for protocol teams or communities to first figure out what it is that they’re trying to accomplish and what their token specifically will be used for. For a lot of work token models like KEEP, NuCypher, or The Graph, the token is used to provide a service — the token is serving as a tax medallion. And so ... See more

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.

-Power naturally falls into a small group of people so you have to be intentional about giving away power as there are common roles that people can fall into. 

Doesn’t this sound great? Well, yes! Now, this is just one of the many examples of this ability to “Web3-anize” assets, i.e to convert from the older way of doing things to a newer model. I would like to further expound on this idea by just taking you on a journey to envision what an increasingly tokenized world could look like.

Social tokens have shown their efficiency to incentivize individuals to share their skills with others. Well-designed incentives are more than crucial as they can make your project tremendously grow. Social Tokens are best used when they scale or incentivize coordination and engagement between community members. Incentives are ideal when it's mutua... See more

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.

If more money is being extracted than what is being put in, then naturally the economy will eventually fall apart. Money doesn’t grow on trees after all, not even digital ones.

As players earn and extract money out of the gaming economy it puts significant downward pressure on prices, as most people are just cashing out their winnings and not reinvesting back into the game.