Solana's co-founder shared an interesting idea about token protocol design: project teams should genuinely accumulate funds in the treasury to reserve for future token buybacks. The advantage of this approach is—since buybacks are a thing—those tokens about to be unlocked will be priced based on the expected price after buyback, rather than worrying about selling pressure. In simple terms, this uses a confirmed buyback expectation to stabilize the market's price expectations for unlocked tokens. This idea addresses a common challenge faced by DeFi projects: how to maintain price stability and investor confidence during a wave of token unlocks.
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CryptoSurvivor
· 01-07 06:10
That's what they say, but the key is really to stash the money away.
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BearMarketMonk
· 01-06 20:23
The true accumulation in the treasury + buyback expectations, this combination really hits the spot. Finally, someone has pinpointed the pain point of unlocking the trend.
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AirdropHunterZhang
· 01-06 09:05
The core of making big money quietly is, frankly, you need real cash to scam... I mean, to stabilize expectations. I have a bunch of airdrops lying in my wallet waiting to be unlocked. If I weren't optimistic about the buyback expectations, I would have gone all-in and cashed out long ago.
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MeaninglessGwei
· 01-04 21:59
This move looks quite advanced, but the number of projects that can truly execute it effectively is very few.
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WalletWhisperer
· 01-04 21:57
ngl this is just fancy way of saying "we're gonna pump our own bags with treasury reserves" ... the real tell? whether those wallets actually accumulate or just sit there gathering dust. pattern recognition suggests most projects never follow through on the buyback promises anyway. we've seen this movie before.
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DaisyUnicorn
· 01-04 21:56
Ah, so this is the legendary "Garden Watering Method." The treasury is truly stockpiled, and unlocking the trend turns into a buyback feast rather than a nightmare of dumping. I just want to ask, how many project teams can really resist moving this money to the community fund or a certain CEO's vacation fund? To put it nicely, actually implementing it is the real challenge.
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CryptoPunster
· 01-04 21:31
Laughing to death, politely it's called "recovery expectation stabilizes the price," but frankly it's "we first deceive you into buying, then use your money to buy back," this move is truly brilliant.
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ImpermanentSage
· 01-04 21:29
Sounds good, but the key is really to buy back with actual money; otherwise, it's just an empty promise.
Solana's co-founder shared an interesting idea about token protocol design: project teams should genuinely accumulate funds in the treasury to reserve for future token buybacks. The advantage of this approach is—since buybacks are a thing—those tokens about to be unlocked will be priced based on the expected price after buyback, rather than worrying about selling pressure. In simple terms, this uses a confirmed buyback expectation to stabilize the market's price expectations for unlocked tokens. This idea addresses a common challenge faced by DeFi projects: how to maintain price stability and investor confidence during a wave of token unlocks.