1/ Today, after 1 month of working closely with the @AragonProject team and community, our proposal to buyout $ANJ holders who lock their converted $ANT for 12 months was voted in at a conversion price of 0.044ANT/ANJ ($0.138 at current prices)
2/ This represents an excellent outcome for $ANJ holders who only 8 weeks ago were being forced to sell at 0.015 ANT ($0.05 at current prices)
The price of $ANJ has already reacted, up over 100% in the hours since the vote
3/ While this process has had its share of hiccups along the way, we’re proud of $ANT holders for listening to the $ANJ community, paying a multiple that appropriately reflects the commitment made by $ANJ holders and the upside given up via merging into $ANT
4/ According to our calculations, this premium can be paid with no more than ~9% dilution by $ANT holders (assuming all $ANJ holders choose to convert which is unlikely)
We believe that's a cheap price to pay to acquire an engaged community of committed supply-siders
5/ @synthetix_io has already shown the power of token lock-ups and liquidity mining incentives in bootstrapping a strong supply-side and community
6/ With the merger behind us and a community of engaged supply-siders, the onus is now on the Aragon team and community to buidl and begin attracting users to the newly formed Aragon Protocol
7/ Governance is a multi-trillion dollar opportunity and while there are open questions regarding value capture and TAM, Aragon starts with a significant traction lead and a large war-chest
We look forward to helping Aragon capitalize on these advantages over the next year
8/ This represents the first decentralised governance powered crypto M&A transaction, setting an important precedent going forwards
As crypto matures and token projects converge to the startup failure rate of 90%, we expect blue-chips to increasingly engage in M&A
Stay tuned next week as we’ll be producing a full video walkthrough of the $ANJ merger process from beginning to end. Exclusively for @Delphi_Digital subscribers
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1/9 I believe most DeFi credit protocols like will end up creating their own insurance pool underwritten by tokenholders. Why?
🔸Gives governors skin in the game and an incentive to make good decisions
🔸Better product for users who want insurance as they deposit
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🔸Transforms idle market cap into balance sheet, generating fees
🔸Risks can be bundled into products and offered to users based on their particular preferences
3/9 While we believe this makes a lot of sense as a token model, we don't think it is competitive but rather complementary to @NexusMutual
This is because insurance relies on leverage to be efficient and leverage requires diversified, uncorrelated risk exposures
As someone who is #irresponsiblylong both Bitcoin and DeFi, I cannot understand the constant tensions and bickering between the communities
In yesterday's daily, I explore why I believe Bitcoin and DeFi are symbiotic rather than competitive
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1/11 Bitcoin can be seen as "Digital Gold", with its like for like characteristics as a store of value being superior in every way
However, it's also much more than this as it's natively digital nature enables programmability, utility and financial innovation at software speed
2/ Bitcoin is not only a financial asset that is no one else’s liability, it can also be used as part of a broader financial system without becoming someone else’s liability
Rather than trust a counterparty, users need only trust cryptoeconomic incentives and human greed
While my time investing in crypto and previously playing poker has gotten me used to experiencing large daily personal net worth volatility, it's never a pleasant experience
Short thread (by my standards...) with some ramblings that help me get through it 👇
1/10 Imo, some DeFi projects represent 10-1000x upside opportunities
Obviously, like all of crypto, it is extremely risky and can go to 0. That said, given the magnitude of potential outcomes, it just doesn't have to succeed that often to make it a massively +EV bet
2/10 As with all early stage tech, realising these outcomes will require 4-8 year holds
Unlike early stage tech, crypto investors will have liquidity, i.e. the possibility, and thus the temptation, to sell
With the yield farming craze and recent market drop, we've begun to hear calls of a so-called "DeFi Bubble", with a few arguing DeFi has topped
In today's daily, I take a longer term view and look at YF, DeFi vs ICO boomand where I think we are in the cycle
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(1/27) First, it's important to realise speculation has always been crypto's killer app
The ICO boom was only the most extreme example, but crypto's history is dotted with boom and bust cycles, dating back to 2013 and Namecoin, Mastercoin (now Omni) and Maidsafe
(2/27) For those who lived through the ICO madness, the recent food coin high season 🍣🍠 🍝 may bring flashbacks of the futility coin fuelled 2017 boom (ht @Obstropolos)
While the underlying mechanism is the same, there are some fundamental differences worth exploring