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Activist investor calls for Polygon to scrap 2% inflation and launch buybacks to rescue POL’s price and restore investor confidence.
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Tokenomics News
Tokenomics is the science of a token economy, encompassing various aspects of token creation, distribution, regulation, utilization and sometimes removal. In 1972, B.F. Skinner, a psychologist at Harvard University, first suggested the idea of tokenomics, calling it the “science of token and its economics.” Tokenomics reveal how cryptocurrencies work in a broader ecosystem and how tokens influence the activity in a network.
Tokenomics can be related to how demand and supply affect the outcome of digital currencies. Assessing the methods used to drive the coin’s usage, adoption or importance can be useful in estimating the future value of a cryptocurrency. Important methods are employed to drive the demand and supply of a cryptocurrency. Each crypto project has an approach used to grow the value of a coin and its adoption, such as mining and staking, token burns, rebasing, activity rewards, yields and many other methods.
Tokenomics provide a solution to what value a crypto has, how the crypto will appreciate, why the developer created the cryptocurrency and what the future of the coin or the token looks like. Some cryptocurrencies, such as Bitcoin (BTC), have a deflationary supply wherein there is a decrease in the supply of coins over time. In contrast, others strive toward stable usage with an inflationary supply that increases over time, like Dogecoin (DOGE).
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US First Lady Melania Trump promoted her MELANIA token in an AI video, but questions linger over $10 million in team token sales and a 98% price collapse.
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A crypto asset manager wants future HYPE emissions and community rewards to be cut, slicing its token supply by 45% in a bid to make HYPE easier to value.
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TGEs promise liftoff for new blockchains, but too often, they end with early exits, fading ecosystems and selling pressure for long-term supporters.
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Hyperliquid’s HYPE token faces a monthly supply overhang of $410 million due to its vesting schedule, warned Arthur Hayes’ Maelstrom Fund.
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The proposal seeks to create more value for long-term WLFI tokenholders, while exploring additional protocol revenue sources for token buybacks.
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Wormhole’s native token has had a tough time since launch, debuting at $1.66 before dropping significantly despite the general crypto market’s bull cycle.
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Polkadot said that under the old tokenomics model, the total supply of DOT could have swelled to more than 3.4 billion tokens by 2040.
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Sonic Labs has passed the proposal to make a $200 million foray into the TradFi market, with plans to create a US company and launch an exchange-traded product.
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Over 70,000 wallets piled into the YZY memecoin, but most lost money as its price collapsed by over 80%, underscoring the risks of celebrity-backed tokens.
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Andrew Tate is back on the memecoin bandwagon but hasn’t nailed the trading game as his wallet approaches losses of $700,000 on Hyperliquid.
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Traditional staking rewards capital over contribution, creating unsustainable token economies. Tokenomics' future lies in performance-based tokenomics that reward measurable work.
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The new solution aims to create a sustainable revenue stream for builders, which may enable them to move away from fundraising via cryptocurrency launches.
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Users can directly participate in this protocol’s success by bidding on bundles of network fees in a deflationary auction model that anyone can register for.
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HYPE is up 300%, and Hyperliquid leads the DEX perp market. But with a $38B valuation and just 21 validators, some question whether the rise is sustainable.
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