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To view keyboard shortcuts, press question mark View keyboard shortcuts Home Explore Notifications Follow Chat SuperGrok Premium+ Articles Business Profile More Post noice @noicedotso Article See new posts Conversation brian flynn @Flynnjamm How to Fix Tokens 45 37 205 48K I spent the last five years trying to solve the incentive alignment problem in crypto. Here's what I learned: Most tokens are designed to make their holders compete against each other. That's the opposite of what they were supposed to do. Tokens were supposed to align teams, investors, and users around a shared goal. If everyone holds the same asset, everyone wants the project to succeed. That idea was right. But we built token models where you make money by selling, not by holding. And that one design choice broke everything. This isn't a pitch for something I'm building. It's what I think the industry needs to get right, and what we should be asking regulators to support. We've watched the same cycle for eight ye

I spent the last five years trying to solve the incentive alignment problem in crypto. Here's what I learned: Most tokens are designed to make their holders compete against each other. That's the opposite of what they were supposed to do. Tokens were supposed to align teams, investors, and users around a shared goal. If everyone holds the same asset, everyone wants the project to succeed. That idea was right. But we built token models where you make money by selling, not by holding. And that one design choice broke everything. This isn't a pitch for something I'm building. It's what I…

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