/biz/ - Business & Finance

>>58612436
How do you arrive at the 60m number?

>>56820294
>Dilution death spiral
Max supply of 1 billion, with a emission schedule known in advance

>>56753982
>Rory said the team will dump 140 million link per year on the open market
He didn't say that.

>>56356500
>So if each year is 14% we are going to be getting dilutated hard in that fiver year span
The inflation rate will decrease each year as the unlock amount is a fixed amount of the total supply per year

>>55788601
>At this rate will all the tokens be distributed in 4 years?

By 2030:

>LINK should no longer be an inflationary asset, due to its fixed supply
>Chainlink Labs should have a treasury in the dozens of billions, ensuring continued support for the following decades
>CCIP should be used as the baseline bridiging layer for all of cross-chain crypto operations, including usage by Swift banks and clearing institutions
>Value capture for holders built into the tokenomics, with thousands of BUILD projects giving away % of their supplies accruing value, fee capture from services like CCIP, profit capture from top DEFI protocols, etc.
>most oracle networks could, theoretically, be profitable and sustainable with increased paying users, advances in cost reductions via L2s, SCALE, etc.
>Chainlink, as a whole, should offer a complete suite of essential web3 services with a total monopoly on standard crypto infrastructure, used across all industries and deployed on all the main chains instead of being restricted to a single ecosystem
>meaning more profit, and these profits being directly distributed to holders, with no inflation dilution and narrative
>it is, in essence, similar to the Amazon's dot com boom/bust and Google's hidden strategy situations https://abcnews.go.com/Business/story?id=87393&page=1

Now I realize 2030 isn't a sexy pitch. 99% of retail suffer from terminal high time preference. But it is what it is. While most other crypto will pump and dump and disappear, closer to gambling than investing, whereas Chainlink is built to stay and endure through various market cycles and inevitably climb up to top 3 mcap. Chainlink isn't get rich quick and fuck luxurious hookers until your dick falls off, but it is comfortable retirement and inter-generational wealth. Your dick might not work that well by then, but your children will be happy you did it. It is what it is.