/biz/ - Business & Finance

>>57765094
Hold yourself to a higher standard. Imagine all the absolute slime that thing compares you to.

$51,000 staked in December are currently worth $110,000 ($91,000 a week ago). This is amidst a recession, and before GMX fees, BUILD rewards and CCIP general access.

A claimable reward stack (~310) alone is currently worth $4,680. While modest, you have to remember the average market participant is priced out of such a stack and the average normie doesn't even have this much on his bank account. If LINK continues to run (it is likely that it will), then returns on staking are exponential.

As staking expands with each subsequent year, then more of the supply will get locked. This should coincide with CCIP revenue growing, creating more demand for the token. Less supply, more demand, what happens next?

Let's discuss inflation, currently fixed at 7% annually (total supply), meaning ~14% in real terms for the current year (against the circ. supply). What this means is that with each subsequent passing year until 2030, inflation in real terms will linearly get reduced from 14% to real 7%.

By 2030, 7,000 staked at 5% will have accrued +2,100 free linkies. That's without accounting for extra APY for restaked linkies and BUILD airdrops, GMX fees, etc. By 2030, there will be no more inflation of the supply and one single link could be worth +500 dollars in a bullrun (fairly conservative estimate for 2030). Such accumulated staking income could be worth +1 million US dollars. That is without accounting for the principal stack.

Post-2030, LINK will no longer be an inflationary asset and the Chainlink networks are expected to operate in a sustainable economy with direct self-service payment for users and therefore direct revenue capture built-in for service providers (including stakers), although one can surmise that if lacking sufficient maturity, ecosystem growth could continue to be bootstrapped by the CLL entity contingent on their accumulated runway in USD, meaning post-2030 could actively be *purchasing* LINK tokens with their billions instead of dumping.

Patience.

>>56380511
>>56382895
but it can INCENTIVIZE truth. that's what every poster in this thread has failed to grasp. the truth machine doesn't just output truth, it incentivizes it. In the future, every person of worth and every corporation of worth will be staked.

>>55841897
just standard brown mutt mouthbreathers seething at blue eyed white males

>>55133194
two blue eyed white males

very problematic