EP 21: What is Ampleforth? The Economics Design of AMPL Token [Case Study]

Economics Design

English - August 23, 2020 03:27 - 1 hour - 66 MB - ★★★★★ - 9 ratings
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What is Ampleforth? What is supply elasticity? Why do I have more tokens and suddenly less tokens? Where does Ampleforth come in, in the #DeFi space? How does Ampleforth work?! I don't understand Ampleforth!

Fret not, let's start Season 2 with a deep dive and case study of Ampleforth, using the Economics Design framework for tokens.

Things covered:

What is Ampleforth
Objective of Ampleforth
Token function
AMPL vs AAVE
AMPL vs COMP
AMPL vs USD
Economics design framework
Main USP of AMPL
What is Synthetic commodity money
Economics utility vs financial utility of AMPL
How AMPL works using example of hot and cold water
Monetary policy of Ampleforth
Graph analysis of AMPL
Valuation model for AMPL
Global trade impacts of AMPL
Distribution and allocation analysis of AMPL

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