Economics Design

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

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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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    Economics DesignBy Lisa JY Tan
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