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Visualizing Value Flows In & Out of Avalanche
...period Avalanche was also able to offer a big discount on fees which was likely viewed as an appealing value...Let’s analyze the bridge activity to better understand how much value crossed over the bridge and how...The visualization below illustrates value flowing across the bridge by asset over the 23 days since launch...
4 Min
Layer 1 / L1
Feb 2021
The Fat App Thesis: An Inflection Point in Value Accrual
The question is: what is stopping apps from similar tactics to maximize value capture and minimize value...Value is being abstracted away from the base protocol layer....Chains were valued under the assumption that usage equals value accrual....These are not indicators of value creation, but rather value dilution.
43 Min
Layer 1 / L1
Apr 2025
Exchange Tokens: Features and Value Accrual
...creates a correlation between the demand of the underlying protocol and the token price, strengthening value...A token’s value accreting properties can be altered at the discretion, and without notice by management...holders instead of equity holders necessarily makes the latter worse off due to the fixed amount of value...
6 Min
Data
Apr 2021
Visualizing Value Flows In & Out of Avalanche
...period Avalanche was also able to offer a big discount on fees which was likely viewed as an appealing value...Let’s analyze the bridge activity to better understand how much value crossed over the bridge and how...The visualization below illustrates value flowing across the bridge by asset over the 23 days since launch...
4 Min
Bridges
Feb 2021
Vega Protocol Update: Evaluating Value Accrual
...looks against competitors in the market, whether the token economics makes sense, and the potential value...As a result, transaction fees from using the chain are an additional value driver for OSMO and other...are still highly valued by the market....App-chains have the added advantage of having network level value accrual on their application.
9 Min
Spot Exchange
Feb 2022
Valuing Layer 1s - Memes, Money, or More?
...described why productive assets (i.e., fixed supply is not enough) are the superior form of long term store...of value....The best long-term store of value needs to be better than just a sturdy rock, it’s necessary to also...Store of Value Assets – Monetary Premium “Cryptocurrency” is often a misnomer, but sometimes it isn’t...
30 Min
Proof-of-Stake
Apr 2022
ENS Soars, Whirlpool Farms, & Valuing L1s
Valuing Layer 1s – Memes, Money, or More?...However, it doesn’t actually say anything about value capture for the overall token itself....It’s net neutral to value capture either way, you’re just deciding who it helps....In this situation value is captured either way, you’re just deciding who it helps....It’s all just moving value around and I’m breaking even.
5 Min
Layer 1 / L1
Apr 2022
More Than Just Governance: Unpacking Value Accrual Mechanisms
value....Risk Free Value (RFV) was popularized by OlympusDAO during its run up, and is a method of valuing a treasury...Risk free value is book value if all tokens were written off to their true floor price....the market to determine a fair value rather than trying to directly influence the fair market value...its treasury-backed value.
27 Min
DeFi
Oct 2023
A Nuanced Approach to Estimating Mark-to-Market Crypto-Asset Values
A maximum loan-to-value ratio needs to be set in stone based on this....If the value of the collateral drops such that the loaned XYZ token is now valued at $75M, then FTX can...This plays out smoothly as long as the mark-to-market (MTM) value of the collateral equals the USD value...of assets, but not the true realizable value.
15 Min
Macro & Markets
Dec 2022
Transaction Ordering Policies & Value Accrual in L2s: Timeboost, OP PGA, Fastlane, and OEV Network
Recently, there has been an increasing focus on value accrual within blockchain networks....We will examine how these transaction ordering policies influence value capture at both the application...Transaction ordering policies are a critical aspect of network design, as they directly affect value...Value Accrual Auction proceeds are sent to Arbitrum DAO’s treasury.
16 Min
Layer 2 / L2
Sep 2024
A Framework for Valuing Lighter Points
But again, that would just be fair value.
5 Min
Derivatives
Oct 2025
Real Vision: Macro, Crypto, and Value
Kevin Kelly joins Real Vision senior editor, Ash Bennington, to discuss the macro tailwinds driving crypto markets, how investors are realizing yield in crypto, and the relationship between the many t...
Asset Management
Sep 2020
DEXs vs Front-Ends - Who Captures Value?
Therefore, given their liquidity network effects, DEXs have historically been valued at a premium relative...of the value....Crypto Markets, I laid out the bull case for why front-ends are positioned to increasingly capturing value...In other words, who captures value in a world where the transaction supply chain looks something like...
5 Min
DeFi
Sep 2024
Does Value Accrue to Frontends? Solana Outage's & ETH Narrarives
Jose, Yan, Duncan, and Ceteris discuss the mechanics of value accrual to frontends in crypto, the Solana...
64 Min
DeFi
Feb 2024
Sam Williams: Pay Once and Store Data Forever on Arweave
...archived, why can’t you store primary sources webpages?...You pay once to store forever....So for something like storing a web application or even storing your post, blog posts, Tweets, whatever...They have a real underlying value to them....value of those tokens, in this case, securities, equities, actually come from.
Infrastructure
Apr 2021
OEV: How Auctions Influence Value Capture In Lending Protocols
Liquidations on a lending protocol happen when a borrower’s collateral value drops too low, causing the...This ensures that lenders get their money back even if the collateral loses value....Why do lending protocols have to let go of all of this value? Let’s dive in further.
3 Min
DeFi
Jul 2024
More Than Just Governance: Unpacking Value Accrual Mechanisms (Executive Summary)
...holders but also exert a direct impact on the token’s market value....We explore four value accrual mechanisms implemented by tokens....Tax tokens haven’t proved ideal for value accrual towards token holders....OlympusDAO was one of the book value tokens we’ve looked into....value back to the token holders tangibly benefit.
3 Min
DeFi
Oct 2023
Bitcoin's New Narrative: Ordinals
Users have to pay fees to miners to store that data in a block....Where an Ordinal sits in the timeline of inscriptions drastically affects their value....The slower pace of Ordinal inscribing on Bitcoin will likely affect their value or drive collections...Ordinals, on the other hand, are stored directly on-chain.
16 Min
Layer 1 / L1
Feb 2023
Opyn Options With Ribbon
The DeFi options market is very young and cumulatively has less than $200m in total value locked....Mercenary capital is defined as the amount of value that was withdrawn from the vaults within a week...Calls expire with value ITM – since oTokens are “cash settled”, the market makers withdraw the difference...
7 Min
Options
Aug 2021