@0xzerebro officially announced the ZerePy framework and standard, causing many to focus on why there isn't an anonymous token issuance, falling into a speculative myth about creating a new ELIZA community. This question is quite intriguing; let's discuss opinions.
1) For a DAO organization driven by a masterless AI Agent application like AI16z, the ELIZA framework standard represents a sense of community cohesion and the expectation for future open-source ecosystem development.
The influence of ELIZA as a framework standard in the GitHub developer community is growing at a visibly rapid pace. It is endorsed by AI16z as a community token and has garnered market consensus, influenced by many chance factors, rather than following an initially set development path. Therefore, how AI16z designs Tokenomics and clarifies the relationship between AI16z and ELIZA will be of utmost importance. However, the integration still has variables that need further observation.
2) The question arises: subsequent projects like ARC and Swarms have taken the route of initial token issuance through GitHub repo (IGO), and this novel MEME-based issuance method itself is a means of community financing, which is entirely understandable.
However, whether the framework standard itself should issue tokens and how to empower after issuing tokens becomes crucial. Currently, under market FOMO sentiment, issuing tokens seems to be a standard practice, but without a judgment criterion, there will likely be a phase of issuing tokens for the sake of issuing them, which is evidently undesirable.
3) The emergence of ZerePy serves as a model; essentially, the relationship between ZerePy and Zerebro is similar to that between OP Stack and Optimism. It will externalize Zerebro's successful deployment experience in individual AI applications in the form of an open-source foundational framework, enabling more Zerebro-gened individual AI applications in the market.
For Zerebro, this is a way to commercialize and expand the ecosystem through open-source traffic. Whether to issue new framework tokens or authorized MEME tokens is possible, but the choice depends on Zerebro's market focus. Recklessly issuing a 'split token' may not be wise for an ambitious individual AI.
Unless the ZerePy ecosystem develops to a certain extent with a trend towards platformization, and the old Zerebro's Tokenomics cannot accommodate ZerePy's incentive efficiency, the significance of issuing tokens will become evident. Until then, similar tokens can only be regarded as MEME.
Thus, I believe that soon, the question of whether the framework standard should issue tokens will evolve into an intrinsic logic.
To fully consider the efficiency of Tokenomics, it is necessary to leverage platform effects, with a focus on establishing a framework standard for chain operation. Issuing tokens is essential, but for ecosystems centered around individual AI or other types of DAO organizations, whether a framework should issue tokens must be analyzed on a case-by-case basis.
Finally, a reminder for everyone: the 'asset issuance' method first issued on GitHub is indeed novel, but early-stage scams are bound to prevail. It is essential to learn how to assess the quality of GitHub repository code, analyze the feasibility of its commercial application vision, and evaluate the reliability of team members.
Regarding community MEME tokens being officially endorsed, ELIZA set a precedent. It is fundamentally uncertain whether similar projects will exist in the future, especially since whether ELIZA can truly be empowered has become an unknown variable. Blindly buying into any framework standard poses a significant speculative risk.