EP 21: What is Ampleforth? The Economics Design of AMPL Token [Case Study]

What is Ampleforth? What is supply elasticity? Why do I have more
tokens and suddenly less tokens? Where does Ampleforth come in,
in the #DeFi space? How does Ampleforth work?! I don't understand
Ampleforth!


Fret not, let's start Season 2 with a deep dive and case study of
Ampleforth, using the Economics Design framework for tokens.


Things covered:


What is Ampleforth

Objective of Ampleforth

Token function

AMPL vs AAVE

AMPL vs COMP

AMPL vs USD

Economics design framework

Main USP of AMPL

What is Synthetic commodity money

Economics utility vs financial utility of AMPL

How AMPL works using example of hot and cold water

Monetary policy of Ampleforth

Graph analysis of AMPL

Valuation model for AMPL

Global trade impacts of AMPL

Distribution and allocation analysis of AMPL



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