“If Fortnite was developed in 2021, all the Skins would be NFTs and a robust in-game token economy would have powered the prizes, concerts and life in the Fortnite metaverse.” – 2021 crypto investors
The “web3 Fortnite narrative” was common …
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Before diving into the framework it’s useful to briefly articulate why we find DePIN so exciting.
DePIN, the crypto industry vernacular for Decentralized Physical Infrastructure, is an emergent category of networks that promiseS to replatform centralized infrastructure services like Telecom, …
Betting on opinions will make sentiment analysis more valuable and honest
This piece was originally published as a Blockworks OpEd. The full piece will be posted here after the exclusivity period…
What is the right mission for crypto?
One cohort believes that “winning” for crypto is replatforming the financial system; building better financial rails, tokenizing financial assets and creating new monetary instruments. They believe that the plethora of current crypto consumer …
Airdrops have been a common but understudied part of token generation events (TGE). The mechanism is simple – distribute freshly minted tokens to the right wallets to help establish an initial float, enable on-chain governance, power transactions, reward early contributors, …
Proof of Stake (PoS) networks are secured through staking. While using liquid staking or hosting a node on a third-party cloud platform are easy and popular ways to stake, running a physical node contributes most to decentralization and often produces …
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Decentralized Physical Infrastructure Networks (DePIN) are a rapidly emerging crypto use case. By combining distributed infrastructure with token incentives, many of the existing problems in centralized infrastructure are solved elegantly, enabling decentralized GPUs, storage, energy, wireless, and GPS networks. …
Unlike a bitcoin ETF — which locks people even further into a reliance on Wall Street — PYUSD could actually onboard those next millions into crypto
This article was initially published on Blockworks
The launch of PayPal’s stablecoin — PYUSD …
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As token engineers, our goal is to understand how different elements of token unlock design – namely the size, frequency, length and distribution of unlock – impact a token’s price stability and long term health.
We collected and analyzed …
TLDR; 6MV has developed initial Agent-Based models to contribute to the body of token research and help advise our Portfolio Companies on initial token generation / launch and mechanism design tradeoffs. We began by modeling ‘infrastructure’ economies, where the utility …