Most crypto projects’ tokens drop 90%+ within two years of launching. — Why? It’s the supply and demand! Isn’t that why prices drop everywhere? Too much supply, not enough demand? True, but in this article we’re going to dive deeper into how tokens allocated to insiders consistently prove to be the bane for web3 projects’ token prices. Like clockwork, when the vesting…

How to build a moat in web3 The playbook for competitive moats for traditional companies has already been written. Hamilton Helmer’s ‘7 Powers’ has emerged to be a popular favorite, but other frameworks abound. When you’re building in web3, you’re (hopefully) buying into the web3 ethos: open, permission-less innovation and avoiding user lock in. You’re building, knowing…

Growing a B2C startup is hard. It’s even harder when you’re bootstrapping growth, have no resources for paid advertising aka growth marketing and when you’re not part of the ‘in’ influencer crowds on Twitter, Clubhouse, Instagram and YouTube (which you should start working on right now by the way). But…

Crypto economics deal with incentives, game theory and mechanism design because incentives matter. Good incentive designs lead to good mechanisms and product outcomes. Bad ones lead to the reverse. Despite the current hype about friend.tech, the incentives on the app have been misdesigned and will lead to bad outcomes. There’s…

The promise of using tokens to jumpstart businesses, communities and creators has been a huge area of opportunity. In theory tokens can help bootstrap growth, get a community of fans engaged in helping build a product or diversify and increase offerings to fans and users. In this article I’d like…

The house financial services committee put out a massive 162 page crypto markets structure bill. It’s massive because it takes a swing at redefining how US law approaches a whole new asset class, by creating a new asset class: digital assets. These assets can be unique in that they start their life out as a security and change into a commodity like asset as they achieve decentralization. — What are the principles behind the legislation? I’d say they’re:

This week the SEC filed a suit against Kraken, the crypto exchange, alleging that their staking product is an unregistered securities offering. In response, Kraken has suspended their staking product in the United States. …

So you want to launch a token and are lost on where to start? Here’s the checklist for designing your tokenomics from start to finish. Figuring out your business Understanding why you need a token Building your token model Tuning the supply and demand dynamics of your token Token and…

Booms and busts are not new phenomena. As Mark Twain said: history doesn’t repeat, but it rhymes. This is definitely the case for financial history. …