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
Alternative suggestions of diverting future cash flows to contributors fall short vs. minting as well.
YFI is valued at significant multiples over just its cash flows b.c. of things like governance rights, memetic premium, and social status (e.g. owning >1 YFI)
My largest minting concern would be fragmentation of the community but I think most people will get over it
Pragmatism > Dogmatism
So let's mint some coin, get the all star devs the all star compensation packages they deserve and attract even more all stars
And then moon it
Just so we retain some meme power the amount of mint I recommend is 3,333 bringing the total supply to 33,333
This amount should be more than enough to cover current comp packages + reserves for future contributors
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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