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>>22395322
To begin this discussion, I will ask, "What is an index fund?"
An index fund is a fund that can track a specified basket of underlying investments and in this case: BTC, ETH, LINK, and SNX all "balanced" with STA. These coins are set in the fund at a specified percent so as one goes up or down the others are automatically bought or sold to balance risk and maximize profit.
HOWEVER, the key is that STA is deflationary (whenever a STA transaction happens for buying/selling/pooling, 1% of said transaction is burned). This token burn along with tokens being locked in pools, pressures prices up to again make sure the other coins will be balanced, but also creates arbitrage opportunities across funds.


Why is increasing volume, liquidity and arbitrage useful with STATERA?
Well while pooling STATERA you earn a percent of all transaction fees in the liquidity pool. Please feel free to read the medium article outlining the first 2-3 months which came out to be an APY of 36% essentially creating dividends where there were none (https://medium.com/@stateraproject).).
The power of STA is that the ripple effect of: (1) compounded fees, (2) token burn, (3) price pulled by balancing with ETH, BTC, SNX and LINK leads to an exponential effect and positive feedback loop on price. This leads to the concept created by STATERA known as "Volume Farming."


Can the team dump?
No, this is the most decentralized token as the project much like BTC is out of Satoshi's hands, STA is out of the hands of the devs who only own <4%. In fact, I own more STATERA than some of the devs.

>>22395330
Can’t I just hold BTC, ETH, LINK or any other coins and balance my own index fund?
Yes, but can you add in a way to collect dividends (>36% APY) on your coins based solely on their volume/trading? Can you add in a mechanism that causes constant upward pressure in your index fund? Can you capitalize on every arbitrage opportunity for all the above coins to auto-balance and make gains when possible 24/7? Can you do all of the above in a trustless and truly decentralized (largest holder ~6% of supply) manner?


What is the low volume/high volatility problem?
If an asset or contract has low volume then it is susceptible to high volatility. This leads to the premature failure of many promising projects and contracts early in development and is one of the main barriers to a fully decentralized and digital world. A simple quant balancer cannot solve this as in finance 1.0 because if the volatilty is too high then such a balancer is subject to fail also. However the addition of a deflationary mechanism creates inherent feedback ensuring that it cannot fail unless the entire digital market (ETH, BTC, LINK) collapses. It allows new projects and new contracts to solve the initial growing pains of high volatility and manipulation.
But what if bad actors simply manipulate STA?
This is why the fully decentralized aspect is important.

>>22395353
Based $10 EOY IS FUD.

400k whale finished dumping, price bounced to 9c almost instantly. Price has bottomed out this week, don’t think we are going under 8c again.
Runours about the team developing an UI - maybe for farming purposes?

Bullish as hell anyway, I’m ready for the next STA pump. Previous pump was nearly 10x so $0.80 is expected.

>>22395322
It’s ogre, anon. Let it go

COMRADES

NOT ONE STEP BACK

HODL THE LINE AND BUY MORE PUSH IT UP COMRADES

>>22395465
You've posted this exact same fud every day, anon

>>22395461
Correction, we went from 3c floor to 46 cents so at 8 cents we are going to $1.22

>>22395465
>All of this statera fud makes me so bullish. The problem is that now I am getting erections at the sight of dog shit. Fucking dogshit fudder has fucked up my wiring.

>>22395565
Fuck we need this now.