How does FVM interact with the gas economy? The Filecoin Virtual Machine (FVM) is about to launch, enabling user-programmable smart contracts (also called actors) to be deployed on the Filecoin blockchain. …

How scenario-based models can help us understand Crypto Economies. At CryptoEconLab, we often get questions about how a given protocol change may impact the underlying economic systems that support it. This question may sound very broad. …

What I learned from the 2023 crypto conference season kickoff Since 2018, ETHDenver has been one crypto’s most consistent and energetic conferences that helps the community get a sense of what the future look like in our industry. This year is certainly different from the excitement that was had in…

Designing incentives for Filecoin’s Web3 CDN. In this blog post, I discuss the incentive mechanisms my team at CryptoEconLab designed for the Saturn Network, a project started by Protocol Labs to bring fast and reliable access to content stored on Filecoin. …

The Filecoin network indexes block reward emissions to the amount of actual physical hardware dedicated to the network via its hybrid minting model. A key aspect of the minting model was the introduction of a baseline target function which doubles yearly and sets storage capacity targets for the network. As…

As an avid AI enthusiast, I’ve made an account at https://chat.openai.com/chat and have started using “prompt engineering” to solicit coding help from this large language model. The code is not bulletproof, but moves me forward dramatically faster than doing it myself or piecing together StackOverFlow articles. Meanwhile, Filecoin is launching…

Summarizing cryptoecon research from our Q4 seminar Every quarter, the CryptoEconLab team hosts quarterly research seminars bringing the brightest minds in cryptoeconomics to highlight research and key findings from their respective teams. Below is a recap of the event with links to the presentations. For all CryptoEconDay Lisbon events feel…

CryptoEconLab started conducting monthly research seminars among our team members in December 2022. Axel Cortes Cubero presented on critical phenomena, statistical physics, and their part in cryptoeconomics. Below is a summary of the content. Seminar Part I: “Critical Phenomena, and the different ways in which Cryptoeconomics is not Statistical Physics” Statistical physics is the most well understood and theoretically developed branch of complex many body systems…

TL;DR: For over a year, Filecoin Block Rewards have been fully maxed out. In Feb 2023, we project that conditions will lead to re-entry into the variable, performance-based regime of payouts, providing incremental incentives to grow the network and bank any foregone rewards until a future time. The Filecoin blockchain…