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Crypto is in a constant state of flux. Tokenomics is no different. 

Of course, there are absolutes in crypto. Private keys always grant access to digital assets within that public-key pairing, for example. That someone will inevitably launch a memecoin for every passing fad in our collective culture is another.

But crypto’s non-stop experiments with tokenomics have become integral to the asset classes’ core thesis.

How projects fund themselves, entice venture capital and encourage early participation is, in many cases, a large part of the identity of those individual coins. 

For bitcoin, there…

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