You've heard of no-loss lottery. Now, get ready for no-loss stable coins! This week, we discussed $ALCX, @AlchemixFi, ft interview with @scupytrooples!
Deposit DAI into the system to borrow alUSD
Borrow up to 50% of the DAI collateral
Deposited DAI is used to generate yield
The yield is used to pay off the 50% alUSD borrowed
Why is it a no-loss stable coin?
Both assets are correlated
You can always trade alUSD for DAI
And they move in the same direction
Think of it like So Alchemix "brings forward" the yield generated to what you can use today, in the form of alUSD.
You can use it now, while the collateral works for you to generate the said yield.
The protocol has 2 pools:
1) turning DAI to alUSD 2) turning alUSD to DAI
if alusd > $1, mint more
if alusd < $1, someone can go to pool 2 to get DAI out and deposit alusd
What about $ALCX?
% of the yield generated goes to $ALCX holders
Alechemix DAO is coming soon
Check out the full video for other parts, including comparison with other protocols & some opinions + limitations.
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First of all, we need to understand that NFT is essential items that can be collected. Like a painting, rather than a typical token which has lots of incentives associated with it to increase buyer demand.
Therefore, valuing NFT is like valuing a real-life precious item; whoever feels it has a price, will pay that price.
Example: There are a lot of abstract paintings that are worth a few thousand dollars. Very few people understand what they mean, for example, but people still buy them.
During this period, it goes into this pool called Mempool. There, everyone can see that "hey, Lisa is going to buy 100 ETH. It is not executed yet."
The risk? Because this is public, bots can come in to pre-trade. They are called flashbots. The basically front-run your trade. They execute the trade before you.
In HEGIC you just have one asset let's say ETH. You add liquidity into the pool and what we want to do is to get all these little smaller guys with some capital put them all together.
With Uniswap people can trade and exchange so if I have ETH and I want to change it for USDC or if I’ve USDC and want to change it to ETH.
A long episode this week on What is @AmpleforthOrg and the Economics* Design of .
*because it's the analysis of the entire economics, not just the token design mechanism 👇🏼
The first episode of S2. Season 1 was all the fundamentals of token economics and economics design. Now is where the serious and fun things begin.
Grab your headlights. We're going deep.
Covering
- AMPL vs / (Which @BanklessHQ 100% got it wrong)
- AMPL vs USD
- What is Synthetic commodity money
- Economics utility vs financial utility
- Monetary policy
- Graph analysis
- Valuation model
- Global trade impacts
- Distribution and allocation analysis