These are all reasons why I believe there is an opening for new decentralized stablecoin competitors.
But overcoming Dai will be not be easy by any measure.
The MakerDAO system is reliable, stable, secure, and proven. Just like anything at the base of the monetary system should be.
Key reasons why the moat is so strong.
Finally when I think about where value will accrue on Ethereum it’s hard not to think the protocols that issue currency like Maker will be in a powerful position.
They will be foundational infrastructure for the Ethereum monetary system that will set the price of currency and potentially accrue massive balance sheets that they may use for other revenue generating activities 💸
I’ve been guilty of fading MKR myself, but gotta respect the king of decentralized stablecoins.
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It's all about automating information flows and the evolution of the crypto investor.
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Currently if you want updates on assets outside the top 10 you’re out of luck if you only follow crypto news publications and twitter.
The result is you have to follow all these projects manually.
The problem of course is that staying on top of all these projects is an extremely time consuming process that requires scouring a wide range of disparate and idiosyncratic sources for high signal information.
To me it is when a protocol is designed from the ground up so that its token is an integral part of the protocol and involved in the value creation process, rather than just serving to extract rent.
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Over the past year in DeFi there’s been a renewed interest among the community in value accrual mechanisms for tokens.
Due to a combination of opportunism and naivete, the 2017 ICO era was flush with utility tokens that attempted to jam useless tokens into new projects.
Along this line of thinking, even if a token does implement some kind of fee capture it’s much better to reinvest those earnings rather than distribute as dividends.
UNI implicitly does this by not extracting fees from LPs (fee switch off).
This industry’s obsession with dividends is a backlash to the useless utility tokens from 2017.
Yes it’s important for tokens to have the potential to accrue value.
But earnings potential is not the same as dividends.
One of the more thought provoking essays I’ve read on Ethereum in a while.
In short Ethereum wins not by challenging nation states head-on for monetary supremacy like Bitcoin, but by growing its own digital economy until it surpasses that of the dominant sovereign powers.
“History teaches us that there’s only one viable method for a challenger willing to replace the current monetary reserve: it has to grow its own economy till the point it matches, and eventually surpasses, that of the main global power of the moment — currently, the U.S.”
This is a mental model I’ve long agreed with as well.
Bitcoin - a digital challenger to gold
Ethereum - a digital challenger to sovereign jurisdictions
Bitcoin : Digital Gold :: Ethereum : Digital Economy