Meme Tokens

Instructors: Andreas Park

Blockchain: a history

History of Crypto and Blockchain how I'd like you to see it

single-purpose digital money

general purpose platform

DeFi applications

alternative digital money

alternative smart contract platforms

scaling solutions and higher level (d)apps

money applications

An Alternative View of Blockchain

crazy internet money with no value

a vehicle to create unlimited crazy internet money

utility
tokens

DAOs

NFTs

Meme

other crazy
money

alternative vehicles for vaporware

Crypto-Pumpers are getting more honest

Early new blockchains
- "Hey, look at my new blockchain and see what it can do - now buy my cryptocurrency"
- => 200-300 failed
ICO Bubble
- "Hey look at the platform that I am going to build! It's going to revolutionize [insert flavor du jour], now buy my utility token"
- => >1,000 failed
DAO bubble
- "Hey look at this entity that I created - it's called a DAO and it's totally decentralized and can do all these wonderful things. Now buy my DAO token"
- => 1,000s failed
NFT bubble
- "Hey look at this cool picture of an ape - I'm going to create a series of these and people will totally gonna buy this! It's like the Mona Lisa on blockchain! Now buy into my NFT series"
- => 100,000s failed and 1,000s of rug pulls
Meme coins
- "Hey, I created this coin. Nothing special about it except its linked to this AI generated picture. Let's pump it on Telegram, maybe some bots pick it up. No, it has no value, just buy it for fun.
- => failure technically not possible