Tag: Token

Token hoarders defeat the purpose of most DAOs: Study

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A pair of researchers from the University of Texas at Austin and Princeton University conducted a study to determine how tokenization affects decentralization in decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs). Their findings indicate that many of the challenges to autonomy are related to the reasons individual users have for participating.  According to their research, the larger a DAO grows, the more incentive participants have to consider DAO tokens investments: “The presence of investors diverts the subsidy away from users and thus harms their participation. More importantly, investors may even take a majority…

Ripple’s XRP Token Ruling a ‘Milestone Win’ for Crypto Industry, Says J.P. Morgan

“Large capital pools have been reticent to engage in the industry with unclear rules of the road, while the related overhang has also slowed innovation, adoption, and just overall crypto ecosystem valuation, in our opinion — accelerating as regulatory actions heated up over the past year,” analysts wrote. Source CryptoindustryJ.PMilestoneMorganRipplesrulingTokenwinXRP CryptoX Portal

Polygon proposes upgrading MATIC into a multipurpose token for all chains

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Ethereum layer 2 development firm Polygon proposed upgrading its in-house MATIC (MATIC) token into a multipurpose token that can be used to validate multiple chains. The proposal for MATIC’s technical upgrade is subject to approval from the Polygon community. Once approved, MATIC’s upgrade to a multipurpose token will result in its renaming to POL. According to the announcement shared with Cointelegraph, POL’s utility will span all the Polygon protocols, which includes Polygon PoS, zkEVM and Supernets. Sharing details about the anticipated upgrade, the announcement read: “Primarily, it enables the pool…

LUNC token burn nears historical high of 70 billion

Approximately 68.3 billion LUNC tokens have been burned so far, accounting for approximately 0.99% of the total token supply. Of this burned amount, 44.8 billion LUNC tokens have recently been sent to the burning address. Restore the digital currency’s reputation Luna Classic HQ has announced that 68,303,850,914 tokens were burnt, representing 0.99% of the total supply, and of this amount, 44,789,088,501 has been sent to the burning address. The update comes as part of the decision to burn all Terra Classic tokens from the community pool and the tokens that…