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The "Cornered" Crypto Issuer: When Projects Dump Despite the Dump

28 Oct 2025 4 minute read 0 comments Mojtaba Mohkam

We’re all familiar with the crypto horror story: a token’s price is in freefall, and yet, the team behind it seems to be selling more, relentlessly dumping their treasury reserves onto the market. From the outside, it looks like sheer madness or mali...

Don’t Create Cornered Foes: Why Annihilating a Competitor Backfires

12 Sep 2025 3 minute read 0 comments Mojtaba Mohkam

We've all seen it: the toxic tribalism, the gleeful schadenfreude when a rival chain has an outage, the maximalist rhetoric hoping for a competitor's total collapse. In crypto, competition is often framed as a war. But what if this win-at-all-costs m...

Shelter the Cornered Traders: How a "Crypto Asylum" Could Break the Cycle of Loss

8 Sep 2025 4 minute read 0 comments Mojtaba Mohkam

We've likely seen this behavior around us. Maybe we ourselves were even involved in such behavior. The trader who is down 80% on a speculative Altcoin, yet instead of cutting their losses, they mortgage their logic and buy more. They’re not buying ou...

Stop Digging: Spotting "Crypto Extremism" and Escaping the Cornered Trap in Your Portfolio

30 Aug 2025 6 minute read 0 comments Mojtaba Mohkam

We’ve all seen it; maybe we’ve even been it: the trader who watches their portfolio bleed out, yet instead of selling, they borrow more to buy the dip. The Bitcoin maximalist who, faced with a rising Ethereum, digs their heels in deeper. The degen wh...

Incorporating tokenomics into cities

19 Jun 2021 8 minute read 10 comments zrixes

Satoshi Nakamoto gave us the Bitcoin Network and a new incentive model - tokenomics which allows users to bootstrap network effects. For the past 12 years, tons of innovation, and experiments have gone into understanding and utilizing blockchain tech...

Do Algorithmic Stablecoins Provide the Required Stability for DeFi

29 Mar 2021 6 minute read 0 comments kev_nag

INTRODUCTION: "An algorithmic stablecoin is a token that adjusts its supply deterministically (i.e. using an algorithm) in order to move the price of the token in the direction of a price target.... At the most basic level, an algorithmic stablecoin...

Why Cryptoeconomies Are Different Than Real-World Economies

23 Mar 2021 6 minute read 4 comments Allen Taylor

It doesn’t take long before someone new to cryptocurrencies discovers some similarities, and a few differences, with real-world economics. In fact, at the most basic level, there is no difference at all. All currency values are directly tied to the l...

A Cypherpunk Introduction to Cryptoeconomics

22 Feb 2021 4 minute read 10 comments Allen Taylor

Cryptoeconomics is the fusion of two social science disciplines as old as civilization itself: Economics and cryptography. I’m going to assume that most readers are familiar with the fundamentals of economics. If you understand that the price of tea...

Fiat, Liquidity, and the Future of Crypto

8 Apr 2020 1 minute read 0 comments Fredwriter

The Long-Term Value of Fiat On a recent Reddit AMA, Financier Ray Dalio cast doubt on the USD's long-term prospects as a store of value. According to Dalio, who heads up mega hedge fund Bridgewater Associates, the strong dollar is a reflection of the...

DeFi, Cryptoeconomics, and CBPP Research Roundup

2 Apr 2020 7 minute read 0 comments Ledgerback

Introduction Hi everyone! Here is a short and sweet roundup on three interesting research papers we have recently found discussing commons-based peer production (CBPP), decentralized finance (DeFi), token engineering (often used synonymously with to...