The YFI minting decision can be distilled down to the following:
Will the value created by minting outweigh the cost of minting (i.e. dilution) for token holders
The answer is clearly yes
Productivity of development is key to protocol growth. A 3x increase in development productivity and output will translate to token price which obviously all of us care about
Love the 30k meme, but retaining + growing contributor/dev talent is more important
YFI is meant to be a productive cash flow producing asset, not digital gold
1/ There's an interesting dichotomy that has emerged between the #BTC price targets of traditional institutions and the battle-hardened crypto natives
The former targetting $400k-$1m+ have become the moonboys, while the latter is much more conservative targetting $50k-$120k
2/ Previously, I'd align myself closer to the latter group
But the ostentatiousness of the moon targets should not be ignored. It tells me that these massive capital allocators are fully bought in and committed
They've aligned their personal accounts, funds, and social capital
3/ Guggenheim, Scaramucci, Saylor, etc.
They will shill their hearts out with 1000x the impact that any of us can hope to have or thought possible
1/ Algorithmic stablecoins seem primed to explode this coming year similar to how oracles ( $LINK, $BAND, etc) had a great past year
2/ Stablecoins have achieved product-market fit at a mind-blowing scale - with demand for stables pushing total supply into the tens of billions and still exponentially expanding
They're used as SOVs (Eurodollar 2.0) and MoEs in & outside crypto
3/ The issue with current stablecoins is that they are not truly censorship-resistant. They can be shut down & represent a weak link in our DeFi ecosystems.
What's desperately needed are truly decentralized stablecoins. These can make DeFi applications truly unstoppable
1/ Genericized Impermanent Loss Insurance - A new proposed financial primitive for bootstrapping AMM markets
2/ Last year, @synthetix_io pioneered liquidity mining - the model of incentivizing liquidity in markets via paying rewards to LPs in @UniswapProtocol and @CurveFinance
Rewards are streamed through the "mintr contract" which has become a mainstay of liquidity mining programs
3/ Liquidity mining allowed new projects to disintermediate centralized exchanges and market makers and bootstrap their own liquidity - saving significant time & resources for projects with many other positive externalities