On April 4, 2024, Binance announced the launch of the 51st new coin mining project Saga ($SAGA). Based on the recent Binance Launchpool funding, comparable valuations, and mining cost calculations, we believe that the reasonable opening price of SAGA tokens is between $2.5 and $3.5.

1. About Binance Launchpool

Token Name: Saga (SAGA)

Maximum Token Supply: 1,000,000,000 SAGA

Initial circulation: 90,000,000 SAGA (9% of the maximum token supply)

Total mining volume: 45,000,000 SAGA (4.5% of the maximum token supply)

Research Report: Saga (SAGA)

Smart Contract Details: Saga Security Chain

Restrictions: KYC required

Individual hourly mining hard cap

BNB mining pool: 37,500 SAGA

FDUSD Pool: 9,375 SAGA

2. Project Introduction

Saga is a Layer 1 that allows developers to develop parallel, interoperable, specialized chains for different virtual machines - "Chainlets", providing unlimited scalability for applications. The Saga protocol is a fully decentralized proof-of-stake chain. Each Chainlet has the same validator set and security model as the Saga mainnet.

Each Chainlet has the following functions:

Unlimited horizontal scalability: All Chainlets are parallelized application chain instances, allowing applications to elastically scale to their peak performance and speed.

Low-cost transactions and low and predictable chain fees: Developers can choose any monetization model they prefer, including their own token (or no token at all), fiat currency, stablecoins, or even another ecosystem’s token. All Chainlet fees are determined by a daily reverse auction between validators, encouraging commodity pricing of blockspace.

l  Automation: Developers can build a Chainlet by simply clicking a button in the Saga WebApp.

l  Interoperability and fast bridging: Users can freely and quickly transfer assets between Chainlets and Saga and other ecosystems using automatic interoperability and asynchronous composability. Since each Chainlet provides fast transaction finality, users can also take advantage of fast bridging to other chains.

l  Fully flexible stack: Developers enjoy their own dedicated chain, allowing for optimal flexibility and customizability of the environment.

 

For a more detailed introduction, please refer to the Saga introduction on Binance Research: https://www.binance.com/zh-CN/research/projects/saga

3. Team Introduction

The Saga team is mainly based in North America, and its core members all have technical backgrounds and many years of entrepreneurial and work experience.

Rebecca Liao is the co-founder and CEO of Saga and the co-founder, advisor, and former COO of Skuchain. She is currently an advisor to Sommelier Protocol, designing their DAO, and a fellow at Stanford University's Program in Law, Science, and Technology, where she focuses on technology policy.

Jacob McDorman is the co-founder and CTO of Saga, and previously co-founded software consulting company Cellaflora. He holds a bachelor's degree in mathematics from Purdue University.

Jin Kwon is the co-founder and chief strategy officer of Saga and was previously the vice president of corporate development at Ignite. He holds a master's degree in computer science from the University of California, Berkeley.

Bogdan Alexandrescu is the Co-Founder and VP of Engineering at Saga and a Partner at Blocktech Ventures. Prior to joining Saga, he worked at Apple and Twitter as an engineering leader, managing engineering organizations focused on developing cutting-edge solutions in the areas of advertising, data engineering, large-scale ML/AI, and infrastructure projects. Bogdan's expertise spans a variety of areas including engineering management, software development, and project leadership. His educational background includes a Master's degree in Computer Science from the University of California, Davis, with outstanding academic records, and a degree in Management, Business Administration, and Leadership from Harvard Business School.

4. Financing history

According to Binance, Saga has raised $15 million. Investors include Placeholder, Maven11, Longhash, Samsung, Com2uS, Polygon, Merit Circle, Figment and Chorus One.

5. Community situation

Twitter: https://twitter.com/Sagaxyz__ , Follower 113263

Discord:https://discord.com/invite/UCRsTy82Ub ,Member 41613

Telegram:Telegram: Contact @sagaofficialchannel ,Member 4097

6. Token Economy

$SAGA is the native utility token of the Saga protocol and is used for the following functions:

Payments for Chainlets: Developers pay network validators in $SAGA tokens to instantiate and keep their Chainlets alive.

Staking: Stakers help secure the network and receive rewards in $SAGA tokens and tokens of projects built on the Saga protocol.

Governance: $SAGA token holders will be able to vote on network governance decisions.

Maximum Token Supply: 1,000,000,000 SAGA

Initial circulation: 90,000,000 SAGA (9% of the maximum token supply)

7. Online prediction

1) Binance Launchpool recent data

Judging from Binance’s recent IEO data, ETHFI’s performance is quite impressive, with a relatively large increase, while the performances of others are relatively average.

2)       Funding comparison

Binance Launchpool has recently seen a large amount of capital participation in transactions, among which ENA is the most prominent. The trading volume on Binance alone exceeded 1.07 billion US dollars, the turnover multiple was 25.05x, and the increase in circulating market value was 25.83x.

3) Comparable valuation

Since SAGA is a Layer 1 blockchain based on the COSMOS ecosystem, we selected similar projects for comparison. From the estimated opening market value and total market value of SAGA, there are 26.1x and 5.45x growth potentials respectively.

5) Borrowing costs

As of April 7, 2024, the on-chain borrowing cost APY is around 75%, and the opening price needs to reach $1.614 to break even.

4) OTC Price

Currently, the OTC price of SAGA tokens is around 3u.

5)       Comprehensive calculation

In summary, we believe that the reasonable opening price of SAGA token is between $2.5 and $3.5.