EP 21: What is Ampleforth? The Economics Design of AMPL Token [Case Study] - a podcast by Lisa JY Tan

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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