NFT idea: 1. develop a trait/attribute model for your NFT collectibles 2. Allow "tokenizing" the NFT and issuing N (fungible) tokens based on M attributes 3. Allow buying and selling in "attribute markets" 4. Can only unwrap if you have 1:1 of each attribute of the target NFT
Bonus points if the attribute model is scalable to account for underpriced or missing attributes
NFTs themselves will never be 1:1 swapable, but their underlying attributes can be decomposed (according to a model) and made swapable to establish more efficient pricing
This works for non-collectible use cases too:
- Houses (location, BR/BA, age, etc.)
- Fine art (creator, style, age, auction history)
A lot more...
Using the house example: 1. I tokenize a (a) 3 BR, (b) 2.5 BA, (c) 2000 sq. ft. house I own in (d) Hollywood, CA (with my house deed as collateral) 2. I now have 3 (a) tokens, 2.5 (b) tokens, 2k (c) tokens, and 1 (d) token 3. I put some of these in an "attribute AMMs"
4. I earn a % on those attribute AMM tokens 5. Someone comes along 3 months later with the right set of tokens that represents my house 6. They "unwrap" my house, signing over the deed to themselves. It is theirs. 7. I still own the tokens, which is the "sale price" of the house!
The entire time that house was "on the market", the tokens I owned and added to the AMM were bought and sold at the given market price for each characteristic. Now, I am earning a % on my tokens for the length of time the house was on the market for. That's kind of cool!
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So Curve is awesome for swaps between similar assets, right? The fact that they trade very close to each other is a key part about how Curve works, using it's custom swap invariant function.
That's step 1
Step 2 is that Synthetix is awesome for creating "synthetic assets" (aka synths) which are assets that trade like other assets, that are backed by another, entirely different asset. Basically, a plastic banana that I can buy and sell like a real banana.
So this psuedo-cartel of US miners only processes "compliant" transactions, meaning that they use their hashrate to exclude transactions from countries on the US financial sanctions list
But they only have 8% hashrate, so what's the big deal?
Well, that's all good and fine. That means 92% of Bitcoin hashrate should, in theory, process the remaining transactions, because it is economically profitable to do so. This mining cartel even says it themselves, they take a 0.35% hit to profits to provide this service
This doesn't sound so bad at all. Bitcoin works as intended, it might take a little longer to mine your transaction, but one of the non-US mining pools will include it, eventually.
This is excellent:
The EIP repo is seen as a place where EIPs are drafted and kept as records. The hard-fork coordination process now is a separate process that passes EIPs “into law.”
Some background: past EIP-related "governance blowups" (such as ProgPoW) stemmed from a mis-use/mis-consideration of the EIP process by most. An EIP being moved to Accepted signaled to some that it was "official", where the reality is anything but.
By making this change to streamline the EIP process to Standardization-only, we remove the space for politics to derail important technical work in Ethereum. With this change, an EIP can move all the way to Final if it meets the technical requirements of the EIP process.
Let's say you have a protocol token that earns dividends.
It earns $20m in fees per year (on average). Those fees are split evenly among it's holders.
Let's say there are 20k tokens. That means each token earns $1k per year (this is called earnings)
What should the price be?
Well, if you're naive about it, then the price could be $1k per token. That means if you held it for a year, it would effectively pay for itself. Almost no asset trades at a price to earnings ratio (P/E) of 1:1. No one is that conservative!
Typical P/E ratio is more like 5-30
Why is that? Well, the asset has underlying value above and beyond it's earnings potential, such as it's *potential* to keep increasing it's earnings potential, which makes it trade at a premium to the simple considerations of earnings.
When you are investing in a token, you are *not* investing in the software it runs on.
Not in the technical community members who pour their energy into new creative ideas.
You are not investing in someone else, you are *asking* to join a community and build value for yourself.
The software? It's meaningless. Just bits and lost ether.
Technical community members can add a lot of value through their creativity, but that value ultimately doesn't matter without a community that cares enough to use it (and use it correctly).
A token isn't just a meme.
I mean, a lot of people treat it like this. They think smart people are going to make their bags moon, a lot of other people think they can make money betting against it.
This is the marketplace of ideas, made liquid. Buy and sell ideas, but ideas are meaningless without action.
And sometimes you just need someone chad enough to stick themselves into that probe. Our job is to keep those brave souls as safe as possible while exploring the new frontiers of DeFi!
This is my personal design philosophy I bring when I contribute to yearn.