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Lockdrop + LBA: The Future of Tokenomics?
Private token sales with long-term vesting schedules: DAOs can raise cash by entering long-term partnerships with investors such as VCs or angel investors exchanging native tokens for a fixed price for cash following a long-term vesting schedule. Similarly, a DAO could raise cash from its community members following similar deals.
A Fresh Look At DAOs – The New (Digital) Family Offices - GCR
Key Trends for Token Buckets: Token distributions can be broken down into 6 main segments:Community Treasury, Core Team, Private Investors, Ecosystem Incentives, Airdrop, Public Sale
Lauren Stephanian • Optimizing Your Token Distribution
The big recent example of this is LooksRare. As Cobie explained in his post on the topic, half of the farming rewards were available to early investors whose tokens were still locked. So while retail investors might have been under the impression that they were earning most of the fees of the platform, they were actually going to the early investor... See more
Nat Eliason • Tokenomics 102: Digging Deeper on Supply
The most important takehome is that tokens are not equity, but are more similar to paid API keys. Nevertheless, they may represent a >1000X improvement in the time-to-liquidity and a >100X improvement in the size of the buyer base relative to traditional means for US technology financing — like a Kickstarter on steroids. This in turn opens up... See more