Tomaino: Future crypto tokens will combine usage and work utility
Nick Tomaino · a16z Podcast | Mental Models for Understanding Crypto Tokens · Jan 2, 2019 · at 4:34
Nick Tomaino, founder of 1confirmation, explains how token economics will evolve toward hybrid models combining governance/work and transactional utility.
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“And by the way, these aren't mutually exclusive, so you can have tokens that are both usage and work tokens, and I think many tokens in the future will likely be that.”
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