VCs & Founders Shouldn’t Receive Any Tokens For 7+ Years We would like to thank Charlie Sandor at CMT Digital for his contributions & feedback. This piece wouldn’t have been written without his input. Let’s imagine a case where a crypto startup has raised capital from VCs for an equity…

Why Founders Are Misallocating Tokens to VCs? Tokenomics is typically associated with a pie chart allocation that represents what % of tokens would be allocated across team, investors, treasury and community. …

Which Player Types Would You Like To Have In Your Game? Web3 games allow in-game items to be traded on permissionless decentralized marketplaces in exchange for real money. This has created opportunities for financially motivated actors to speculate and earn while also enabling game developers to incentivize certain player behavior…

What Can Web3 Games Learn From Night Club Economics? Last month we got invited to a crypto party at NFT NYC. The party was top-notch in terms of production quality, live performance, and venue. Everything was great but there was something unusual. …

Fundamental Analysis on STEPN’s Token Economy In this article, in a data-driven way we explain why the STEPN bull case arguments won’t prevent GMT, GST and sneaker prices from collapsing. …

Introducing Vader Research Web3 gaming needs a new, independent research firm. Some crypto VCs have been designing and promoting ponzi tokenomics that align their short-term incentives at the expense of crypto’s long-term reputation. Vader Research is a thesis-driven research firm dedicated to the long-term development of Web3 Gaming. We are…

The P2E Crab Game with No Guilds 🦀 Crabada is a dual token P2E game with breedable NFTs similar to Axie Infinity. 3 Crab NFTs are required to play the game to earn utility token TUS (SLP) and governance token CRA (AXS). …

Virtual Land is a Trojan Horse for Web2 Corporations Social UGC gaming platforms such as Roblox, Rec Room, Core, Sandbox and Decentraland all have the same end goal; benefit from network effects by becoming the go-to platform for players and game developers. …

The Next Axie Infinity or a Temporary Fad? Pegaxy has been pretty popular among the Axie managers and scholars in recent weeks. PGX is trading at $400m FD market cap and went up 15% in the last 7days while ETH went down 40% during the same period. Pegaxy is a…