Welcome to the MPATH Weekly Report.
Again, we are able to increase the token price in line with the underlying asset value of the whole fund. The distribution value has risen, due to an increase in profits, but the net yield has gone down very slightly, in line with the continuing shallow fall in the Hive blockchain yield.
Compared to so many other Hive-Engine tokens, maintaining a stable price is equivalent to a significant rise in value, especially in HIVE and USD terms. there will be some volatility as there are few open buys, but the price pops back up to par as soon as there are liquid funds to trade.
The issues with our voters continue to be a frustration, so here is our message, again:
"One other thing to report is that there continue to be on-going issues with our voters, and perhaps you have noticed that even doing manual operations can be glitchy and error-prone. Once this is sorted then we can fix our script, but note that members have been getting manual votes instead - for those with low amounts of MPATH, it is more efficient to give out one large vote rather than many smaller ones. Those with higher amounts will see votes also coming from our secondary voter, maxuvd. Indeed, most members will see more vote value than is delivered automatically, just that it will arrive in larger but fewer votes."
Having said all this, our lower estimate comes in at over 24% APR, which is still pretty good!
On a positive note, a welcome to new MPATH members. The issue with the voters also means there is sometimes a delay in actually starting to vote. I would encourage all new buyers of MPATH tokens to just let us know in a comment - this will speed up being added to our voters.
Here is a graph of the MPATH token price. (Thanks to 
As you can see, it is a rather jagged affair, mainly because the spread remains wide so those spikes are merely the difference between someone buying tokens and someone selling them.
A reminder that this is a market, and not a shop, so although official prices are designed to guide the market, you can sometimes find cheap MPATH tokens. I reiterate that our promise is that we will guarantee official buybacks equal to that week's income. Anything above that will require some waiting for an increase in power-downs.
MPATH has finally broken through what seemed like a 60-cents resistance level! I shall continue to narrow the buy/sell spread slowly as we move up. Worth a reminder here that MPATH is asset-backed, so our buyback price is fully-funded by HIVE assets.
And on to my usual closing remarks...
As ever, I give the caveat that individual member returns depend on many things, but these are our baseline figures to see how income changes from week to week. This is also a good time to remind members that such high returns may require adjustments at times so that our Voting Power does not get too low. We have plenty of capacity left, so this is not an issue, as yet, but members with 2000 MPATH tokens are getting votes from about 35k HP, so even if the VP is down to 60% that's still an effective vote from a 21k HP account.
A final reminder that the maximum holding to receive votes is 2000 MPATH, and the maximum to receive reward distributions is 5000 MPATH. You may, of course, own more than this as an investment. We shall increase these if we see the demand to do so, but they are there to attenuate the effects of large accounts and thereby help the smaller accounts. Also worth a reminder that any accounts below 10 MPATH will receive no benefits.
For full details, please read How the MPATH Program Works [May 2020].
Have a good week!
The MPATH headline figures are:
MPATH tokens active = 42,370
Earning HP = 43,060
Voting HP = 33,220
HP in MPATH = 22,090
Other HIVE = 4,440
Total HIVE = 26,530
MPATH ABV = 0.5980 HIVE (+0.001, +9.0% APY)
Sale Price = 0.6315 HIVE (spread 0.0335 HIVE)
Estimated Gross Earnings = 7.83 HIVE per 1000 MPATH = 40.7% APR
Estimated Net Earnings = 4.64 HIVE per 1000 MPATH = 24.1% APR
(4.64 = 1.46 income + 3.18 votes)
Total MPATH Distribution = 61.0 HIVE = 96 MPATH tokens at 0.6315 HIVE sale price
Hive est. vote APR = 19.5% (-0.5)
Hive est. curation APR = 9.8% (half of the vote APR)
Note that "Other HIVE" is the sum of all holdings not powered up as HP: liquid HIVE and HBD plus holdings within Hive-Engine. Also note that such values are volatile, especially any holdings priced in US$, so the above numbers are a snapshot and may have changed when you look at the @MPATH account.
The Asset Backed Value (ABV) is our total holdings calculated in HIVE divided by the number of active MPATH tokens.
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