PaperImperium ✓
@ImperiumPaper · joined 06 Jul 2021
Economics Lead at @megaeth. Views and opinions my own.
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As a dad, this joke is hereby approved https://t.co/l9sHIxALuI
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GIF
Many sad stories would be a lot less sad if insurance was widely available.
People insure self-custodied valuables all the time, either through their homeowner/renter insurance or a standalone specie/precious metals/collectibles policy.
And yet, this kind of coverage in crypto
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Another workaround around the prohibition on interest (which meant usury) should be very familiar to the DeFi crowd: rewards that were up to the bankers’ sole discretion.
Called discrezione, it was the yield paid on time deposits.
The logic went that because the yield was at
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Kind of amazing how the Medici operated a kind of holding company instead of all siloed individual partnerships, as was the style at the time.
On the one hand, this exposed the whole organization to liability, but given the lending between branches, contagion was always going h
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The foundations of modern Western finance were built by regulatory arbitrage - but around Church regulations, not governmental!
The bill of exchange is the basic building block of what we can recognizably call banking and finance in the West.
Why? Because it allowed for https:
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@ImperiumPaper Big agree - we’re working on a much more rigorous financial view of crypto
https://t.co/JkgfpuGidK
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@ImperiumPaper Totally agree. $100M in deposits on a lending platform can also sit completely idle and generate no interest whatsoever for suppliers.
$30M in deposits at a 70% utilization rate outperforms $100M in deposits at a 10% utilization rate, both for suppliers and the p
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@ImperiumPaper TVL was used for AMMs at first. we shouldn't have used that when talking about lending protocols. but here we are ser.
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A major unforced error in crypto is treating technical dashboards as financial dashboards. Nowhere is this as obvious as with TVL of lending protocols. TVL is NOT a substitute for accounting!
Let’s look at TVL defined as “Value of all coins held in smart contracts of the
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The age of one-time token due diligence is over. A given "token" can easily involve 300+ changing contracts.
We've built a balance sheet graph for every token, so you can see all protocol/token dependencies and then model economic and operational risks. https://t.co/enJF123CWD
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Against accounts of the same size
6 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 10K–100K follower range. shown widely, but few of those viewers react.
Median views2 422this account924median for 10K–100K
Reach, %22.83%this account3.62%median for 10K–100K
Engagement, %0.65%this account1.52%median for 10K–100K
| Metric | This account | Median for 10K–100K | Ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median views per post | 2 422 | 924 | 2.62× |
| Reach (views ÷ followers) | 22.83% | 3.62% | 6.31× |
| Engagement rate | 0.65% | 1.52% | 0.43× |
Others in this range → Compare with another account → How these benchmarks are built →
Growth & engagement
How the posts we collected actually performed: views and reaction rate post by post, what the audience did with them, and where the follower count goes.
Views per post
44.6K20 May
63.5K23 May
500
873
872
3.7K18 Aug
1.2K6 Sep
1.7K
3.1K7 Sep
5K8 Sep
4139 Sep
Last 11 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.
Engagement rate per post
0.95%20 May
0.28%23 May
1.40%
2.98%
1.03%
0.60%18 Aug
0.78%6 Sep
0.70%
0.61%7 Sep
1.44%8 Sep
0.00%9 Sep
Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.52%.
What the audience does
Likes71.3%591 in total
Reposts7.4%61 in total
Replies10.7%89 in total
Quotes4.5%37 in total
Bookmarks6.2%51 in total
Share of every reaction we collected for this account. Replies mean argument, reposts mean endorsement, bookmarks mean the post was worth keeping.
The follower curve appears once this account has two daily snapshots — we take one a day, and this one is on its first.
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