December 06, 2018

Alpine’s Rocco and Jacob: Creative Token Destruction and Evolution

1 hour 12 minutes

Host Tom Shaughnessy of 51pct.io is joined by Gregory Rocco and Jacob Blish, two token designers and engineers as ConsenSys' Alpine Spoke. The conversation covers everything from the use cases and design of utility tokens, to designing for governance and positive incentives and even token doomsday scenarios.

Topics covered include

How the two design tokens for crypto projects

How to decide which projects actually need a token

The use cases of tokens (payments, voting, work, and representative) tokens.

Why we don't need so many utility tokens, we can just use Ethereum.

Convincing enterprises why shared infrastructure through token usage is the future, and convincing them how to use work tokens.

Why Brave doesn't need its BAT token

0x Project and MakerDAO token dynamics

The idea of futility tokens, and how projects that issued tokens that don't need them will pivot.

designing tokens that offer real foundational governance

How to design token governance the right way

Doomsday scenarios; how changes to the base protocol of blockchains can negatively impact all of the decentralized applications and smart contracts built on top of it.

We also detail Rocco's posts; The Death of Decentralization (the buzzword).

How to design for decentralization

Debating whether a project having a centralized leader is a good thing or a bad thing

How to handle token voting.

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Follow Tom on Twitter @Shaughnessy119

Follow Rocco on Twitter @Obstropolos

Follow Jacob on Twitter @chaingenius

ConsenSys' Website

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Disclosure: Tom Shaughnessy owns tokens in ETH, MKR, ZRX, HYDRO, CVC, POLY and GLA. This podcast is NOT investment advice and is only informational. Do not make investment decisions based upon this podcast. 51percent was not compensated by any party for this podcast episode. Tom has no investment stake in ConsenSys or PegaSys.

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December 06, 2018

Alpine’s Rocco and Jacob: Creative Token Destruction and Evolution

1 hour 12 minutes

Topics covered include

How the two design tokens for crypto projects

How to decide which projects actually need a token

The use cases of tokens (payments, voting, work, and representative) tokens.

Why we don't need so many utility tokens, we can just use Ethereum.

Convincing enterprises why shared infrastructure through token usage is the future, and convincing them how to use work tokens.

Why Brave doesn't need its BAT token

0x Project and MakerDAO token dynamics

The idea of futility tokens, and how projects that issued tokens that don't need them will pivot.

designing tokens that offer real foundational governance

How to design token governance the right way

Doomsday scenarios; how changes to the base protocol of blockchains can negatively impact all of the decentralized applications and smart contracts built on top of it.

We also detail Rocco's posts; The Death of Decentralization (the buzzword).

How to design for decentralization

Debating whether a project having a centralized leader is a good thing or a bad thing

How to handle token voting.

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Follow Tom on Twitter @Shaughnessy119

Follow Rocco on Twitter @Obstropolos

Follow Jacob on Twitter @chaingenius

ConsenSys' Website

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51percent's Institutional Crypto Podcasts are to the point discussions with crypto leaders for analysts, funds and institutions. Make sure to add your email on 51pct.io

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Advertisers: To advertise on this podcast, email [email protected]

Potential Guests: If you're interested in appearing on the podcast, email [email protected]

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