Davide
@0xdavide
🐻Today a brief focus on the functioning of native tokens on Berachain. Berachain is a layer1 with a different consensus method: delegated proof of liquidity. Berachain Ecosystem has 2 tokens+1 stablecoin: 1) BERA (gas fee) 2) BGT (non-transferable Governance token, obtained by providing liquidity) 3) HONEY (stablecoin) Users deposit liquidity (LP) and obtain BGT. They then delegate BGT to validators (who produce blocks for the network), obtaining rewards. Validators pass the emissions to liquidity pools that return them to users (LP) in the form of BGT. This is a loop. To pay for transactions, BERA is used, which is also used by validators to produce blocks (the base fee, as on Ethereum, is burned. The other part goes to validators as block rewards and to delegators). BGT can be burned 1:1 in exchange for BERA. So through Proof of Liquidity: the BGT delegation token is decoupled from the BERA gas token. Furthermore, BGT can only be earned by providing liquidity and not purchased on the open market.
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Monteluna
@monteluna
Not enough is actually said about the Honey arm as well. I think a rough model of berachain is that its as if MakerDAO woke up, and bought out xDAI before Gnosis, and moved to be a cryptobank plus promoting a sovereign L2 that they could enable DeFi on with their own stablecoin. They are effectively vampire attacking Ethereum by giving native equity in the chain to Dapps, and by using Honey are back channel investing the stables and driving more yield to BGT stakers.
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Davide
@0xdavide
The model is actually different from the others and if you are EVM it is the only way to try to get noticed on hundreds of identical solutions. However, I still believe that competing with Ethereum is not easy at the "smart money" level. Large institutions will always prefer a solution that has been running for years. $ETH instead (intended as crypto) seems to be in great crisis and I am seriously thinking of dumping it entirely at the end of this cycle.
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