Today, let's introduce the product Almanak again and take a look at its token economics.
The vast majority of tokens in the crypto space are useless, coupled with malicious actions by project teams and a lack of transparency in rules, which leads to most altcoins tending towards zero value. What role does Almanak's token economics play? The official Twitter made an introduction today, which can be summarized as follows:
What is Almanak? It is attempting to provide an incentive infrastructure for the 'AI-driven financial era'.
Imagine this: Future protocols will no longer bribe for 'liquidity', but instead for 'real trading volume brought by AI'.
Here are the key points of Almanak's token mechanism:
- Curators use Almanak's AI Swarm to create and optimize trading strategies
- Users utilizing Swarm must pay computational fees, with 1–10% going to the treasury or emission pool
- Strategies are deployed in the form of Vaults to attract liquidity providers
- Curators can charge management fees and performance fees, part of which can be transferred to the treasury, with the decision made by DAO voting
- Treasury income can be used for ecological expansion, such as token buybacks
- Token emissions are distributed based on Vault performance (TVL × ROI), rewarding high-quality strategies and LPs
- Users can stake ALMANAK to participate in emission voting
- Locked positions can earn veAlmanak, enhancing voting weight
- Protocol parties can also stake and vote, directing emissions to their own Vault, effectively 'bribing' for AI-driven traffic
In summary:
Almanak is building a new paradigm: agents are responsible for decisions, and incentives determine how capital flows. Almanak is one of the few attempting to bridge 'real use × value capture × governance incentives' in a new type of token model, which, compared to the vast majority of altcoins, is indeed more capable of constructing a long-term value support structure.
