Sometimes you stumble upon a gem, something special that reminds you why you still spend countless hours onchain, diving through endless vapour and bundles. Reminds you why you came here in the first place: the boundless innovation, and a better way forward.Â
@prism_lp has been this for me the second I really understood what was going on.
The tokenomics and mechanics are so novel and ingineous Iâll post some materials at the end from the source. Meanwhile, Iâll give you the smoothbrained ape version: there are 5000 Prism NFTâs. Whenever you trade the erc-20 token to fractionals and âbrakeâ one, itâs burned forever. So, deflationary supply. We are at about 4k already, two weeks in.Â
These Prism NFTâs basically represent ownership of the protocol, not in a memetic way, but in a direct value accrual thank god way, where they take a hefty 60% of fees.Â
They do so directly: this means that there's no staking, LP wrapper, router approval, no bullshit. You simply hold the PRISM in your wallet. Thank you Uniswap V4 hooks. This is increasingly important both because AI becomes ever better at surfacing attack vulnerabilities in staking contract but also cause: adoption! Itâs clear that utter complexities to take full advantage of cryptoâs possibilities is not something that nocoiners want to do. More on this as we go, as Prism adresses this 3 ways.
So, what are we accruing value from? Indexes! Yes, exactly the thing that almost every non professional uses to get exposure to stocks, and narratives in general. One of the biggest markets in the planet, that charges you a hefty yearly fee for the privilege. So, via Spectrum, the launchpad built on Prism, to whom all value accrues, you can âone click createâ what are basically on chain ETFâs everyone will have access to. First one live is a good example: a basket of Base AI projects with VVV as the main position at 50% or so and then a sliding scale of 20% to 1% of a dozen baby clankers. Thatâs some good low effort exposure to a strong and growing narrative most nocoiners wouldnât have any idea how to get access to, nor time for.
But the fact that onchain we have already exposure to erc-20 of Stocks, and highly efficient and regulated commodities like Paxgold, and new primitives like baskets of tcg cards means we can create something like 20% gold 20% btc 20% vvv 10% fucking pokemon cards 30% the fucking S and P 500 if our boomer inclinations so desire đ
Possibilities are endless. And again, this is non memetic, and hereâs the incentive for big names to do so. Whoever launches the ETF is entitled to 30% of all fees ever produced. But unlile other ETFâs where you have to PAY a yearly management fee here you are PAID to hold that ETF with 10% of all fees created. And 60%, reminder, goes back to PRISM holders.
I assume the 0 to 1 moment will be when
@VitalikButerin his DeFi ETF or
@punk6529 his art/TDH on chain ETF or
@blknoiz06 will make his Solana ETF.
People with reach and credibility in their own domain.
I donât put Vitalik there randomly, because he just wrote a longass post describing the next phase of DeFi, very same week this this launched basically, and all I could think reading it was:
$prism !
The one thing I donât particularly like about this model is that the ETFâs are fixed in allo. Wich, most etfâs are, but nature of crypto needs more flexibility imho. The reason for that choice is sound: not allowing people to just rug or buy random shit with it. Makes sense. I was happy though to know it was more of a âstylistic choiceâ and less of a constraint. Down the line flexible ones where âsocial trustâ does itâs thing will be good: again, Vitalik there as an example, or 6529 and itâs TDH crew make A LOT of sense in this context. So much can be done in that sense my brain was tingling with crazy possibilities of TDH crossovers in this system.Â
But I digress đ