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by josefrichter 1451 days ago
It’s a fascinating intellectual exercise. I think at this point nobody really knows whether or not it can work.
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I ask two questions to see if passes the smell test:

1. Does this work if the floater is worth 0?

2. Is there some kind of natural cap? In other words, can I print an infinite amount of dollars?

None of the implementations works without some value being attributable to the floating token(s). Similarly, I never hear of any natural caps. For instance, you can create a stable coin with a market cap of $100 and just mint N tokens of the floater for M where M*N = 100. But why can't you mint more and sell at a slightly lower price? Is there some natural limit? If so, can't the price of the floater go down to such a level to not be able to support the market cap?