Public Wealth — Cryptoeconomic systems and public goods
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What a Token Actually Does
What does token ownership actually confer? Tokens are described as useful because they are staked, locked, burned, wrapped, rewarded, or simply treated as central to the story. But those things do not, by themselves, tell you what the token does.
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