2/ Spark needs to be used as collateral to make . According to the whitepaper, there needs to be 2.5 for every 1 FXRP. Given that FXRP is the same price as , the price of Spark needs to be at least 2.5x the amount of XRP used in smart contracts.
3/ Examples:
If 10% of the 45 Billion supply is used for smart contracts, that's 4.5B XRP locked up. If XRP is $1 (for easy calculations) then you'd need $11.25B worth of spark (in ) to collateralize that much .
4/ If you scale the 45B spark tokens to be worth 11.25B market cap, then you get a price of 25c per Spark coin.
However if 20% is locked in smart contracts with XRP = $1 then Spark = 50c per coin.
5/ If 10% of XRP is locked in smart contracts with XRP = $5 then this goes to $1.25 per coin.
If 20% of XRP is locked in smart contracts at XRP = $5 then Spark = $2.50.
And XRP gets to $100 then Spark = $12.50 with 5% locked up, $25 with 10% and $50 with 20%
6/ You can easily see how this could massively increase in value due to increased utility of FXRP in smart contracts.
Please someone correct me if any of this is wrong...
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1/7: I understand that #Ripple's selling concerns many people. But the question is... how do you responsibly distribute Ripple's 50B $XRP? Ripple holding so much #XRP is one of the biggest complaints about XRP and why so many people don't like it and may also prevent ODL adoption
2/7: Escrow was introduced to help this, but that $XRP is still in Ripple's custody. They really need to distribute it. But how? Ideally, it should already have already been done years ago, but you can't go back in time to do it. @JoelKatz has talked about this challenge before.
3/7: So we're against them holding it and we're also against them selling it. So how do they distribute it? They can't give it away, who gets it, how do they choose? Giveaways this late in the game also negatively affect prices. Higher supply = lower demand = lower prices.