Ethereum has a very simple investment narrative, but we've managed to overthink it
1) The play is infrastructure for the future global financial system
2) Ethereum will serve as the settlement and interoperability layer, which is a winner-take-all market
3) The strategy is to keep fees low and drive mass adoption and then capture some of that much greater value in the future via appropriate pricing (gas fees)
4) We're already seeing mass adoption taking off (ie stablecoins), and Ethereum is already the very clear winner; no close competitor
And that's it. Just a very straightforward, very profitable business model.
No 'ETH is money' confusing things; no ultrasound anything; no triple point or however many point thesis. Just a simple, easy narrative that's very difficult to refute.
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@aakashg0@verge He's right on different price points, but there's also a lot he's leaving out (or not realizing).
First off, Meta is a software company trying to do hardware, going up against a hardware company. Not just any hardware company; the best hardware company in the world.
@aakashg0@verge In hardware, the cost of getting it wrong when you've already built the product and established the supply chain is orders of magnitude higher than in software, where you just have to reverse some lines of code.
@aakashg0@verge This is why apple does tremendous market research and user focus groups, and consistently releases great products.
If Meta (FB) did user focus groups, we never would have had the poke button, or the Oculus avatars with no legs.
SBTs can be:
• Issued to a wallet (Soul)
• Made revokable by the issuer
• Publicly visible or private
• Convertible to and from regular NFTs (based on vesting, for example)
Ethereum staking is getting financialized before our eyes.
While staking directly yields ~5%, you can more than double this without adding much risk.
It requires understanding staking pools and the related financial derivatives 🧵
We're all pretty familiar with Ethereum staking.
For Ethereum to switch to its Proof of Stake (PoS) consensus mechanism, it requires stakers to deposit ETH in order to participate in the consensus voting.
In return, new ETH is issued to stakers instead of miners.
However, direct staking comes with several drawbacks:
• It requires technical know-how to set up and operate
• Min deposit of 32 ETH, which not everyone has
• Staked ETH is locked up until after the PoS merge