What Makes Tokenized Communities Valuable? | Forefront

In other words, companies are valuable when they continuously extract value for shareholders. Protocols are valuable when they continuously create value for the public. ([View Highlight](https://instapaper.com/read/1492780094/19098815... See more

Tokenised communities have the potential to turn members into active participants and stakeholders, by using community tokens as the primary means of community access, engagement & coordination. Community tokens combine elements of fandom (belonging and connection), patronage (membership and support) and investment (liquid ownership and financi... See more

While they have much in common with more traditional organizations, tokenized communities promote fundamentally different economic models than the mainstream organizations that preceded them.

While using a token doesn’t inherently make a community self-managing or decentralized, the benefits of (and value accrual to) the token aren’t maximized unless those criteria are upheld.However, no organization will fulfill the first 6 criteria purely on day one. Tokenized communities are progressively working to fulfill the above criteria, making... See more

Community tokens serve as financialized coordination tools in previously unfinancialized communities.So how do tokenized communities economically sustain themselves? This is primarily a question of how individual members and contributors get paid, so that they aren’t forced to allocate time elsewhere. Unlike protocols, people need to be paid. 

Economic models for tokenized communities should be viewed through the lens creating value for the community rather than capturing value from the customer.