EP 23: How to use Bonding Curve Beyond DeFi

09/03/20 • 37 min

We've talked about bonding curves so many times. You'd think I've exhausted the content. HAH! Not a chance.

Today, we have with us Jeff Emmett from the Common Stacks team, sharing with us about augmented bonding curves, generalised bonding curves and various "behind the scene" concepts of bonding curves.

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We've talked about bonding curves so many times. You'd think I've exhausted the content. HAH! Not a chance.

Today, we have with us Jeff Emmett from the Common Stacks team, sharing with us about augmented bonding curves, generalised bonding curves and various "behind the scene" concepts of bonding curves.

Absolutely follow him on twitter at https://twitter.com/jeffemmett.

Want more in-depth content? Sign up at our Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/economicsdesign

Previous Episode

EP 22: NFT, Bonding Curves and Harberger Taxes w Simon de la Rouviere

Today, we have a guest on our episode, Simon de la Rouviere. He's known to start talking actively about bonding curves and it's making a huge impact to the future that we are building — #DeFi and crypto.

Things we covered:

What are Harberger Taxes
Evolution of "Art is Always on Sale" V1 vs V2
Patronage as an asset class
Taxation and its impact on time horizon of holding assets
Relationship between art work and incentive to artist
Bonding curve with NFT via a price floor
Utility as a marginal incentive function in bonding curve
Various curve relationships between art and prices
Governance in NFT
Sustainable funding and efficient economy for artist
Combining DeFi with Bonding Curve for collectible art and virtual assets
Bonding curve uses in personal tokens
2 advice to economic and system designers

Some links on the things we talked about:

Radical markets [Book] — https://amzn.to/31wRteX
Cadcad [Programming] — https://cadcad.org/
Wild Cards [Project] — https://devpost.com/software/ethcapetown_wildcards
This Artwork Is Always On Sale v2 — https://blog.simondlr.com/posts/this-artwork-is-always-on-sale-v2
Exploring Harberger Tax Rates in Virtual Collectibles & Patronage Markets — https://blog.simondlr.com/posts/exploring-harberger-tax-in-patronage-markets
Patronage As An Asset Class — https://blog.simondlr.com/posts/patronage-as-an-asset-class

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Next Episode

EP 24: A Special Episode on Ponzinomics in Defi and Crypto

The plan for this week is to do a deep dive for Sushiswap. But friday happened and the weekend happened. A lot of gains is swiped out in the S&P financial market and defi financial market. And since the video on "Why DeFi is more than just a Ponzi Scam" has gotten quite a bit of traction, I figured it's good to talk more about Ponzinomics.

For Sushiswap, the video will still be produced, with my hypothesis and analysis of the future of $SUSHI. It will be available to premium subscribers on Patreon, so do subscribe to our patreon to support these content!

In this episode, we chat about what is ponzi in defi, what ponzinomics really is about, the 10 ponzinomics mechanisms, 2 case studies of scams and how you can protect yourself from ponzinomics scams!