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Seasons & Longevity of Community Tokens

Recently, there's been quite an interesting exploration of social/community/creator tokens. $JAMM, $RAC, $ALEX, $JOON, etc, all tokens either resolving around people, a brand, or a specific community.

Teams like Zora, Foundation, Rally, Roll, StakeOnMe, etc, are helping tackling the problem of empowering creators through these new novel economic systems. Recently, Zora helped the musician, RAC, launch his own community token. Particularly interesting, was how RAC launched the token by retroactively rewarding fans and contributors. To continue longevity, I propose the concept of seasons in community tokens.

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Personal Tokens (2020 Edition) & Social Reputation

Recently, the topic of personal tokens started gaining traction again in the blockchain community. This is particularly driven by new tooling and platforms (such as Uniswap), enabling easy trading of personal tokens. This is a far cry from 2014, when I first proposed ideas around personal tokens. Back then, the only way to experiment with this was to launch your own blockchain. Glad times have changed.

New examples of personal tokens take various forms. I'll explain some of them, and then propose a new variant for liquid, social reputation tokens.

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