Preface: Two flowers bloom, each with its own beauty. In the crypto world, we always see this situation: some platform coins have doubled in price, while others have returned to zero. The lucky ones have made a lot of money, while the unlucky ones have lost all their capital. For a time, the discussion and reflection on platform coins became more and more intense. Why, compared with altcoins, platform coins have gradually become the target of traders? What is the logic of platform coin appreciation? How to quantify the value of platform coins? Who is the "potential stock" among platform coins?
Before that, we must know one thing clearly: Token is an incentive mechanism based on the new blockchain economy and is the core pillar for achieving decentralization. How to make global decentralized network participants collaborate around a common goal in a decentralized network is the problem that token economics aims to solve.
As the industry develops, multi-scenario platforms and Web3 applications with diverse participants emerge. In order to capture the value, platform coins naturally become the primary key. As a relay currency between various currencies, it has some characteristics of stablecoins, but the fundamental reason is that the value of platform coins is built on the platform, and the value of the platform depends on the overall response of mainstream currencies.
However, many times, due to incorrect perceptions in the past, people believed that the blockchain industry was completely hype or even malicious fraud, and platform coins and mainstream coins were actually the same thing in the eyes of most people, making platform coins a new value trough.
At present, in the crypto world, platform coins, as an important part of its ecological layout, are gradually becoming a "standard configuration", such as the well-known BNB, OKB, UNI, TIA, SOL, etc. Among these many platform coins, Eternal's platform coin ELT is widely regarded as one of the most promising platform coins. As the bottom of the value trough, ELT has also become the first choice for most people to buy platform coins.
01. Small selling pressure + extreme deflation, the increase will be more than a hundred times?
It is reported that Eternal, as a comprehensive service platform focusing on crypto computing power options, not only has a diversified Web3.0 ecosystem including BTC options and derivatives trading, computing power products, computing power leasing, lending, NFT, etc., but also backed by Bitfarms Ltd, Canada's largest cryptocurrency mining company, which is wholly owned by it and has strong financial strength and industry advantages. As early as August 2021, Bitfarms Ltd acquired Canadian financial company Eternal and established a wholly-owned subsidiary to develop a comprehensive cloud computing power product options platform.
It is worth mentioning that Eternal has successfully obtained the MSB license issued by the Canadian Financial Intelligence Unit (FINTRAC), the US MSB license and the Australian DCE digital currency business license, becoming a trading platform with digital licenses from three countries. Therefore, whether in terms of financial strength or qualifications for compliant operations, Eternal is in a leading position in the industry, which plays a vital role in the value endorsement of platform coins.
According to Eternal's economic model design, 9.5 billion ELT (platform currency, accounting for 95%) are used for option trading margin calls, i.e. mining output. This also means that the circulation of ELT outside is extremely small, and naturally the selling pressure in the secondary market is also small. It is no wonder that the price of ETL can maintain a 1% increase every day.
Although the increase is 1%, if this increase is maintained every day, the exponential effect will generate considerable compound interest. Once the timeline is extended, how much more than a hundred times will ELT increase?
In addition, for platform coins, the supply side includes the number of platform coins flowing into the market, the price performance of the currency, the market value and other data, and also includes the most important part: the token destruction mechanism. Because the platform makes profits through handling fees, it uses the profits to repurchase and destroy the platform coins, further reducing the circulation in the market, thereby increasing the value of the platform coins. Obviously, Eternal has been relatively successful in this regard, and can also circulate in multiple application scenarios, and the handling fees generated by lending, pledge mining, various scenarios of computing power leasing, SWAP trading platforms, cloud computing power mining machines, quantitative strategies, etc., of which 30% of the handling fees are used for repurchase and destruction, greatly reducing the flow of ELT.
Eternal has created an ideal upward expectation for the platform coin ELT through multiple empowerments such as repurchase/destruction and strict control of the number of ELT in the secondary market, which has formed a positive positive cycle with the rapid development of Eternal. This can provide stable support for the long-term price trend of Eternal.
02. Delayed empowerment of rights and interests, greater room for imagination
Generally speaking, the platform coins of mainstream exchanges have been fully empowered in terms of rights and interests. Users of platform coins can enjoy various rights and interests. Therefore, the intrinsic value of these rights and interests has been reflected in the price of platform coins, and there is limited room for appreciation.
On the contrary, for Eternal's platform coin ELT, the current rights and interests are not fully empowered. With the opening of more ELT rights and interests, it will stimulate users to increase their demand for ELT, and enjoy the multiple rights and interests granted by the platform coin by purchasing or holding it, and obtain real benefits.
On the other hand, as more rights and interests of Eternal are launched, ELT is gradually empowered and its intrinsic rights and interests value is enhanced. These value enhancements will inevitably be reflected in the market price of ELT, forming the intrinsic support for its price. Therefore, it can be said that compared with an ELT that has realized various rights and interests, an ELT that is gradually expanding its rights and interests has more imagination potential and appreciation space, and is currently in a value trough.
In terms of expanding the application scenarios of platform coins, the platform coins issued first have advantages, because Eternal has developed for a long time and already has some partners, so it can expand external application scenarios, including digital banks, NFTs, DeFi lending, computing power leasing, mining farms, financial management, etc.
In the near future, Eternal will jointly negotiate with venture capital institutions to identify special purpose companies for SPAC, and pilot the implementation of traditional finance based on investment and financial management. Funds will be managed by fund managers or teams, and investment portfolios and quantitative trading methods will be used to facilitate users to achieve diversified investment strategies and empower the platform currency ELT ecosystem.
In addition, according to Eternal's current development layout, in addition to working hard to improve the product line at the product level and launching a variety of activities at the user level to attract and retain users, it is also promoting its global compliance business and market progress, screening and recruiting high-quality merchants and strategic partners worldwide to expand the Eternal ecosystem and ELT's landing application scenarios. It is expected that we will see the emergence of more ELT ecological scenarios in the future, including banking, financial derivatives, investment and financial management, public chains, computing power products and other aspects, which will also provide ELT with a steady stream of value and support.
03. Behind the value is: decentralized platform currency
For every investor, when choosing an investment target, it is generally necessary to intervene before the project or company has officially grown and developed, so as to grow with the project and obtain the huge potential benefits brought by the rapid growth of the project. We call such projects or companies "potential stocks" or "growth stocks."
The same is true for current investments in the platform coin field. Everyone’s ultimate goal is to choose platform coins that have potential and development prospects, have large room for appreciation but are currently underestimated by the market.
In comparison, the prices and market capitalizations of platform coins of mainstream exchanges have remained high, the tokens have been allocated by the market, and have been in circulation for a long time, the valuation levels are relatively reasonable, and the potential for appreciation of the coins has been relatively fully explored. In the later stage, they can only gain growth value through the development of the exchanges themselves.
But for Eternal's platform token ELT, the total supply is 10 billion. 95% is produced by mining, and the remaining 5% tokens are distributed to Partner LPs in proportion. The distribution of ELT shows the true decentralization of Eternal. Compared with most crypto projects, a large proportion of the total supply of tokens is reserved for the founding team, consultants and investors. ELT is almost completely decentralized, and no centralized entity or group holds a large number of tokens.
In this way, when the interest groups of coin holders have not yet been formally formed, and the coin price and liquidity have not yet been truly released, it is the time to scramble for territory. From Eternal's recent frequent actions, it can also be seen that it is constantly empowering the platform coin ELT, improving its rights and interests and landing application scenarios, and enhancing its intrinsic use value and value-added potential.
04. Deploy RWA and build a value bridge
As a decentralized lending platform (protocol) built on the Binance Smart Chain blockchain, Eternal operates through smart contracts, allowing users to borrow and lend cryptocurrencies and real assets (RWA) without permission. During the lending process, borrowers need to pay interest to lenders. At the same time, users can cash out stablecoins from their cryptocurrency assets and earn greater profits, and can also enable users to borrow and lend quickly and seamlessly. In short, Eternal users can enjoy the decentralized financial (DeFi) ecosystem without the interference of middlemen.
But this is just its initial form. In the future, Eternal will serve as a bridge between the traditional financial market and the cryptocurrency world. For Eternal, cooperation with traditional finance means at least two benefits:
Uncovering a larger demand for lending: Although the market size of existing cryptocurrencies is growing rapidly, it is still far behind the traditional financial market in terms of volume, and the native demand categories of the DeFi market are still relatively single, focusing more on mining, arbitrage, trading and investment in the cryptocurrency circle. The asset volume and types, number of users, and demand categories of the traditional financial market are far greater than those of the cryptocurrency circle. The sooner Eternal intervenes, the sooner it can take on huge amounts of funds and rich demands from outside the crypto world, and achieve rapid growth in its business.
Get rid of the violent cryptocurrency cycle: With Bitcoin as a representative, the price of assets in the cryptocurrency circle has a strong cyclicality and violent fluctuations. Affected by this, even high-quality projects with a clear market and good cash flow will inevitably see their business fluctuate greatly with the market cycle. Taking Eternal's lending business as an example, upstream demand in the bear market, such as trading, mining, and arbitrage, will fall into depression as the overall price of cryptocurrency assets plummets, and Eternal's business as a lending service provider will inevitably shrink accordingly. However, after opening up traditional financial business, Eternal's business has a more stable market, which can provide ELT with a more stable price base.
It can be said that Eternal has jumped out of the scope of "conventional trading platform" and is more like a set of tools for asset tokenization. It is not a single-function application, but a DeFi infrastructure that supports multiple advanced DeFi applications on the chain. In the future, Eternal is committed to creating a fair, transparent and innovative financial ecosystem to break down the barriers between traditional finance and the crypto world. For currency holders, they can obtain stocks of corresponding listed companies by purchasing tokens; for listed companies, they can tokenize stocks, and even users who do not belong to their own listed trading areas can easily purchase asset allocation, realizing cross-regional, cross-field, freer and more efficient asset allocation channels.
By then, with the perfect integration of Eternal and traditional finance, its ecology will usher in explosive growth. Will the price of ELT still be low? This is the ultimate form of Eternal!
Conclusion: Obviously, platform coins are essentially carriers of value. The future value of platform coins is more reflected in the platform's own performance, its own ecological development, the implementation of application scenarios, and other aspects. In the future, as the use scenarios continue to expand and Eternal's ecological layout becomes more and more perfect, the use value of platform coins ELT will become greater and greater, driving a multi-layer growth flywheel and achieving incentives for all participants. If investors are optimistic about the future prospects of digital currencies, it is not a wise investment choice to appropriately allocate some valuable platform coin assets before the next bull market comes.