Andreas Park PRO
Professor of Finance at UofT
price
demand
marginal cost
marginal revenue
general idea: sell future output
two approaches for token sales
price
demand
marginal cost
marginal revenue
\(\Rightarrow\) shifts marginal revenue for entrepreneuer left because get only fraction of revenue
Result: underproduction
NB: Chod and Lyandres (2018) have the same result
price
demand
marginal cost
marginal revenue
Entrepreneur does not internalize that extra output unit affects revenue for tokenholders!
Result: overproduction
\(c\)
\(MR\)
Common result in the literature: only debt guarantees effort
Idea: entrepreneur can influence expected demand with "effort"
effort is costly
Is it worth it for the entrepreneur?
Optimal contract looks like debt:
Feb 2000
Aug 2014
blockchain only useful with applications
applications require (tech + economics) + business
understanding of economics on blockchain requires development
our paper: \(\exists\) real economic value in tokens, when used properly
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Presell \(t\) tokens.
If quantity produced \(q>t\), then share \(\alpha_t\) of revenue from incremental \(q-t\) tokens with tokenholders
As with equity, the entrepreneur receives the full NPV.
The entrepreneuer produces optimally at \(q^t=q^m\)
If \(q<t\) \(\Rightarrow\) redeem at rate \(t/q\) and tokenholders receive refund of \(c(t-q)\).
Data: coinschedule
for comparison: total size of
Toronto Stock Exchange: $2,200B
Toronto Venture Exchange: $41B
native to a blockchain for payment
examples: Bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash, Ether, Lumens, Cardano
Source: Satis Group LLC
Source: Morgan Stanley (Nov 2018) “Update: Bitcoin, Cryptocurrencies and Blockchain”
By Andreas Park
I used this deck for a presentation at the 2019 MMF symposium. Part of it is based on a research paper with Katya Malinova, available here: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3286825 and a summary is available here https://medium.com/@park.andreas/tokenomics-when-tokens-beat-equity-aa4c503bc5bd