In #economics, we always talk about supply and demand. They are 2 lines. And usually when they intersect, that is what we call "market equilibrium". That point where the 2 lines meet is the market price and market quantity.
But what these lines share, is the relationship between both parties. When prices are low, buyers will demand more. When prices are high, buyers will demand less.
It is the opposite for sellers. When prices are high, sellers want to sell more. When prices are low, sellers want to sell less.
The buyer's line shows at what price, how much the buyer wants to buy. The seller's line shows at what price, how much the seller wants to sell.
When the lines meet, it is the specific price where both buyers and sellers are comfortable with buying and selling at.
2. Economic incentives to be used in the present (through game theory and mechanism design)
3. Desired system properties in the future (through token design)
Tokenomics (or token economics) is a subset of crypto economics. It is basically economics of the token; aka the crypto project. It does not include the crypto-system (aka blockchain technology like #ETH, #NEO, #NEM).
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.
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
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