Liquidity is one of the most important things in an economy. Like an engine without oil, an economy without liquidity will seize up and fail immediately. Every seller needs a buyer, and every buyer needs a seller (maker/taker). These mechanics don't work any other way.
It's been said multiple times that Bitcoin's "killer dapp" is liquidity itself. Personally, I find this statement to be a bit reaching and maximalist in nature, but who knows, maybe it's true. However, I wonder what they will say when BTC is no longer #1 by market cap. The same people that say Bitcoin's killer dapp is liquidity are the ones who could never imagine Bitcoin sliding down the ranks of the top 10.
I personally can't imagine the "killer dapp" of a deflationary asset being superior liquidity.
In my opinion, Bitcoin's killer dapp is clearly security, via mega-high hash rate, slow block times, and extremely cheap nodes. Does Bitcoin have the best token distribution? No, but it's getting better. Does BTC have decentralized development? Again, no. Is inflation decentralized? Only for miners (a very small subset of the network making it centralized). This is an extremely niche asset, but maximalists seem to think it should do everything. It won't, I guarantee it.
Uniswap and Automated Market Making technology have shown us the true path to infinite liquidity. It will be very difficult for Bitcoin to adopt this model, because the incentive to provide liquidity for Bitcoin is low due to the stingy inflation model. Why farm pithy exchange fees when you can get 100%+ APR on a token that was built for it? The only way for BTC to capitalize on AMM yield farming is if defi tokens create the pair to Bitcoin themselves and reward it accordingly. Bitcoin is at the mercy of defi in this regard.
In working on my own token, I've also realized the extreme importance of liquidity. Liquidity within the system will be amazing, but getting value off of the platform will be tricky (at least to start). To this end, I added a table in my database that acts as a decentralized escrow service for those looking to exit back to Hive.
Simple enough!
Anyone will be able to create fire by destroying Hive (
Using this escrow service, anyone can shove fire into escrow and offer it for sale at a discount. In the example shown user_id 2 is offering 12766 fire for Hive at a 1% discount/bonus. Anyone that sends Hive to user_id 2 (
For example, say someone sent
If I'm being honest, the security for this 'solution' is pretty abysmal. If two people sent Hive to the same user at the same time it would be possible that the escrow account wouldn't have enough funds in it to cover what was owed. This is why it's called 'escrow' in the first place: there's always a certain level of trust involved, and no one should automatically trust a random account that's offering a big discount on fire.
Which is fine because on my frontend I don't need to list all the accounts offering a discount. I can show users whatever I want to show them, just like every other frontend on the Hive blockchain can do. Think the trending tab on Peakd.com is lame? Tell them to change it. It really is that simple. They don't need permission.
There are also escrow smart contracts on Hive that I can employ on the other side of the equation. This would make them much more secure than this hackjob I just put together on the fly. But again, even with escrow smart-contracts, one much trust the escrow account as the ultimate authority should the deal go south. Of course if that account is 
So to start the only way to exit the system will be though this firewall, so to speak. Which is fine. I'm not asking anyone to throw down a lot of money to make this thing work. It's going to work because I'm going to make it work (for free). I'm going to let a lot of you guys premine this thing quite early as to get a better distribution as I'll need alpha/beta testers. The cost will be $1 per day to
Infinite Liquidity?
While the liquidity to exit the platform will probably be thin (unless you offer a big discount on fire) the liquidity within the system is nearly infinite. AMM has a way of doing that. Just look at platforms like LEO.
I own like 1% of the supply of LEO. No small chunk of change. By my own definition of a whale (owning 1/1000) I have the stake of 10 whales. However, if I were to dump all of my LEO onto the market the price would only move 7%. That's insane, but it's also the simple magic that AMM farms provide. All coins are for sale at all times using a logarithmic/exponential curve. Exponential if the price is going up, logarithmic if the price is going down. It will never hit zero or infinity.
Imagine if someone dumped 1% of all Bitcoin on the market. That's like $7B worth of Bitcoin. If someone did that the market would just straight up tank, not only because it drains liquidity so badly, but because other people would panic as well and dump along side the mega-whale. With LEO I can dump 1% of all the coins in an instant. With Bitcoin it would take days to sell that much and you'd have to do it across multiple exchanges. So perhaps liquidity is not BTC's killer dapp after all.
On Magitek the liquidity to get lightning is theoretically infinite, because you can burn HBD to get it, which is also theoretically infinite. This is especially true after the next hardfork where Hive can be converted for HBD.
The liquidity to get fire is also theoretically infinite, but because we expect Hive to rise in price over time it should be harder and harder to acquire fire just as it becomes harder to acquire Hive as the price goes up.
Of course both of these assets will be paired to mana in an AMM pool, so the liquidity there will be extremely high as well. Yield incentives to stay in the pools to provide liquidity and accept possible impermanent losses will be extremely high.
Portals.
Magitek will largely be an oracle network. It has to trust the information it gets from other nodes. Most of all it has to trust Hive full nodes. Luckily
This idea behind oracle networks got me thinking about this "portal" technology. We could basically open an extremely temporary portal (1 day at a time with governance votes). This portal would allow another network (not Hive) to send assets to "
For example, let's say we wanted to allow CUB to be sent to
Should this system fail or get hacked/exploited, we would only lose a maximum of 1 day of inflation. This is because Aether gets destroyed every day and converted to mana, so even if someone was able to hack the portal/oracles/CUB/BSC and created trillions of Aether on Magitek, these trillions of Aether would only be equivalent to a single day's worth of inflation. Then we would obviously vote to close the portal and fix the problem before trying again.
Conclusion
My ramblings continue. Will I actually create a functioning product (or any product at all that sees the light of day), or will I just keep talking out my ass? Who knows! Not even I know!
I haven't quit my job yet, and I haven't been able to take this upcoming week off, which is annoying. I was able to change my shift choice to 4 shifts a week from 5, so I no longer will have to work Saturdays, which is the hardest day to take off.
At the end of the day I really just need to keep grinding this thing out. Time to get back to it.