Your portfolio may be down by 50% but the market stays moving - a few more Initial DEX Offerings (IDOs) are planned for this week with seemingly no plans to delay.

It's not the end of the world. Give it 3 weekly candles.

The market has experienced a major downturn this week, here are some of the biggest remaining declines post market recovery.

On the other hand, numerous substantial raises have been completed over the last 7 days 🚀

Don't forget to pivot sometimes. I never knew Instagram started off as a location check-in app.

Despite the market-wide downturn, there are some big pumpers across numerous sectors.

How do we value tokens? Why is it so crucial to know that value ≠ price? Why do tokens drop by 99%?

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Great post and great meme 😂

I am, at the Fed level, libertarian;
at the state level, Republican;
at the local level, Democrat; and
at the family and friends level, a socialist.

If that saying doesn’t convince you of the fatuousness of left vs. right labels, nothing will.

- Nassim Nicholas Taleb

For all the founders in our channel 😆

Some more upcoming IDOs this week.

How Yen Carry Trade caused last weeks crash

Last week, stock markets suffered their largest loss in value since the 2020 COVID crash, with over $2.9Tn being wiped out on August 2nd.

Was Japan at fault for this financial turmoil?

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One of our clients wanted to reward users who lock tokens for longer with exponentially greater rewards, but wasn't sure on the specifics.

After contriving the minimum and maximum reward quantities as a function of time, we built this custom formula where simply changing α from 0 to 1 makes the discount go from linear to exponential, giving the client freedom to adapt the rewards based on demand with ease.

Token economics isn't just vesting schedules and TGE unlocks.

Traditional token vesting is limiting.

🔐 100% token unlock at TGE (not into liquidity) = price collapse.
🔏 Predetermined token unlocks are a gamble.

How many tokens can we release onto the market?

→ Too few? Prices skyrocket unsustainably
→ Too many? Prices tank

We need a better way. Maybe KPI vestings are a necessity.

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The markets have been indecisive in choosing a direction, although there have been a few significant drops this week.

"Community" is mostly a synonym for "exit liquidity". Is that a bad thing? No. Even community members see each other as exit liquidity, driving engagement to subconsciously pump their own bags.

Airdrops are the perfect examples of this.

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