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Taikonomics

Taiko is a type 1 zkEVM L2 which uses ETH as a native token to pay for fees. This design makes value capture more difficult; Taikonomics is a token economic architecture which captures value to TKO in accordance with technical and design constraints.

Taikonomics

Created At

ETHGlobal Tokyo

Winner of

🤓 Taiko — Protocol Economics

Project Description

All of the info is in the presentation in the slides.

Users

Users pay in ETH

  • Captures value to ETH
  • Aligns with Ethereum ecosystem & promotes Ethereum network health Optimize for cheap tx's
  • see in other design components Pay proposers in ETH, not TKO, to minimize user friction while accruing value to ETH

Proposers No capital requirements

  • Minimizes proposers' barriers to entry --> Maximizes # of proposers --> decentralization ----> We want deceentralization of proposers because this ultimately drives down users' costs

Stakers subsidize proposers' required fees to provers in exchange for a DAO-set variable % of tx fees.

How it's Made

I followed the Eat Sleep Crypto / Token Dynamics Demand-Side Tokenomics framework

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_4QbbZJjsA

Include one bespoke tokenomic mechanism, designed to temporarily subsidize user fees with a mint-and-burn model

Also included staking pools to map the value of ETH flowing through the system to the value of all circulating TKO.

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