Welcome to the MPATH Weekly Report.
A decent week, with a higher distribution , largely due to an increase in income while vote yields are tracking the Hive blockchain lower.
We are keeping the buyback price on a tight leash as the capital base improves. It is looking much better than a month ago, so we shall increase the price further as and when is prudent.
The issues with our voters seems to be fixed, but worth quoting again last week's message, just in case they happen again - or, more likely, something else happens.
"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."
The Hive blockchain yield is dropping a bit, but remains volatile due to the market price.
As I also mentioned last week, we may see MPATH moving slowly towards a higher vote and lower income in relative terms to each other.
Having said all this, our lower estimate comes in at 26% APR, which is still pretty good!
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 buybaks 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 = 43,180
Earning HP = 43,650
Voting HP = 37,070
HP in MPATH = 22,740
Other HIVE = 3,450
Total HIVE = 26,190
MPATH ABV = 0.5948 HIVE (+0.0002, +3.0% APY)
Sale Price = 0.6288 HIVE (spread 0.0340 HIVE)
Estimated Gross Earnings = 8.59 HIVE per 1000 MPATH = 44.7% APR
Estimated Net Earnings = 5.00 HIVE per 1000 MPATH = 26.0% APR
(5.00 = 1.41 income + 3.59 votes)
Total MPATH Distribution = 61.0 HIVE = 97 MPATH tokens at 0.6288 HIVE sale price
Hive est. vote APR = 20.8% (-0.5)
Hive est. curation APR = 10.4% (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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