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In this post, I’ll introduce the emerging phenomenon of “User-Generated Capital”. This pertains to communities, creators, and other individuals utilizing blockchains to create their own digital assets, digital money, or other stores of value that are both specific to their community and can be owned and utilized independent of platforms.
When you start designing the tokenomics for a project, or when you’re looking at a project’s tokenomics, one important question is how the tokens are going to get into people’s hands. The way tokens are released into the wild can have a significant impact on the long term success of the project, so it’s not something you want to overlook. And if yo... See more
We’ll break it into three sections:Considerations for Launching: Including how many tokens to initially put into circulation, liquidity requirements, incentives, timing, token pairs, and when to launch. Tactics for Launching: Including Initial Coin Offerings, Initial Dex Offerings, Liquidity Bootstrapping, Incentivized Liquidity, Liquidity Bonding,... See more
Our generation is blessed with a chance to observe how technology is shifting the economic paradigm toward something previously unavailable to our imagination. Blockchain technology, which initially just offered an alternative model of transactions processing, has evolved into a whole new economic framework with its unique set of principles and way... See more
Blockchains are not simply about money. The modern-day alchemists who minted Bitcoin and other digital assets have animated a generation of technologists to reimagine how the financial and commercial world operates. The vision that these technologists aim to bring to fruition is not just about payment systems and other financial instruments. Large ... See more
Nevertheless, DAOs are not without their challenges. The ideal design of DAOs is still being explored, exposing challenging governance questions which may ultimately stymie their growth and development. DAOs are not formally recognized and do not fit neatly into existing forms of business associations, making it difficult for DAOs to interact with ... See more
So, of course, now it makes sense to investigate the nature of these digital innovations, how they form part of the architecture of our daily lives, how they come to market, who controls them and their heteroskedastic affects on different groups. We need to ask whether the interplay of these technologies with society and market forces has led to or... See more
The Merge is the culmination of years of coordination by Ethereum Core Developers, client teams and researchers and will reshape the world’s largest programmable blockchain. To understand the magnitude of this upgrade, consider an analogy. The Ethereum network is a car running on a gas engine, but instead of providing motion to the car, Ethereum’s ... See more