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The Wolf and The Caribou: Coexistence of Decentralized Economies and Competitive Market

Version 1 : Received: 31 March 2018 / Approved: 2 April 2018 / Online: 2 April 2018 (08:04:55 CEST)

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Freund, A.; Stanko, D. The Wolf and the Caribou: Coexistence of Decentralized Economies and Competitive Markets. J. Risk Financial Manag. 2018, 11, 26. Freund, A.; Stanko, D. The Wolf and the Caribou: Coexistence of Decentralized Economies and Competitive Markets. J. Risk Financial Manag. 2018, 11, 26.

Abstract

Starting with BitTorrent and then Bitcoin, decentralized technologies have been on the rise over the last 15+ years, gaining significant momentum in the last 2+ years with the advent of platform ecosystems such as the Blockchain platform Ethereum. New projects have evolved from decentralized games to marketplaces to open funding models to decentralized autonomous organizations. The hype around cryptocurrency and the valuation of innovative projects drove the market cap of cryptocurrencies to over a trillion dollars at one point in 2017. These high valued technologies are now enabling something new: globally scaled, decentralized business models. Despite their valuation and the hype, these new business ecosystems are frail. This is not only because the underlying technology is rapidly evolving, but also because competitive markets see a profit opportunity in exponential cryptocurrency returns. This extracts value from these ecosystems, which could lead to their collapse, if unchecked. In this paper, we explore novel ways for decentralized economies to protect themselves from, and coexist with competitive markets at a global scale utilizing decentralized technologies such as Blockchain.

Keywords

blockchain; cryptocurrency; decentralization; ecosystems; game theory

Subject

Business, Economics and Management, Economics

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