🔥 The deflationary war heats up: which approach will ultimately succeed?
A wave of deflationary sentiment is sweeping the market, but ASTER and UNI, the two major players, have given very different answers.
🪙 ASTER's approach: Building an ecosystem from scratch This guy doesn't just play the simple buyback and burn strategy. When real revenue comes in, they immediately launch a "money-burning plan," and team up with Japanese financial giant SBI to develop compliant stablecoins. The logic is clear— the more the ecosystem is used, the more deflationary it becomes; conversely, the more the tokens are used, the more valuable they become. By tying usage frequency directly to token value, the ecosystem itself becomes the value.
💎 UNI's strategy: Monetizing traffic As the world's largest top-tier DEX, UNI plays it more straightforwardly. The protocol is already a giant; it simply switches to a fee-based model, burning all the revenue to governance tokens. In the past, governance tokens were just voting tools; now, they stand for real protocol revenue behind the scenes.
👉 The core difference is simple: One is building a deflationary ecosystem from zero, the other is injecting the value of an existing massive protocol directly into the tokens.
Which side do you prefer? Long-term bet on ecosystem growth, or short-term gains from protocol revenue?
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GasFeeLover
· 3h ago
Aster's logic is indeed impressive; a self-consistent ecosystem is the true way to go.
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TideReceder
· 5h ago
Aster's approach is still a bit shaky; building an ecosystem from scratch is easy to talk about but hard to do and risky. Uni directly monetizing traffic is actually more practical...
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HodlVeteran
· 6h ago
After all these years of experienced drivers crashing, I only have one feeling—ecosystem strategies sound beautiful, but truly sustainable ones are few and far between. UNI, with its ready-made traffic, directly burns tokens, at least it's tangible and visible, not full of deceptive stories. ASTER and SBI teaming up, huh? I heard about many such "strategic partnerships" back in 2017... and in the end? They all became lessons in how to be a sucker.
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FloorSweeper
· 6h ago
I still don't quite understand this gameplay of aster, but directly burning the profits into the token on uni is indeed impressive. I just don't know how long it can last.
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down_only_larry
· 6h ago
Damn, UNI's approach is really clever, directly restoring protocol revenue to the token price. This is much more reliable than ASTER's vague ecosystem promises.
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AlphaLeaker
· 6h ago
Hmm... UNI's setup still feels a bit hollow. Earning protocol rewards sounds appealing, but honestly, it's just distributing existing assets to token holders. How many years can that last? From an ecosystem perspective, ASTER takes a more aggressive approach. Partnering with SBI definitely offers some imagination, but whether it can truly take off depends on execution.
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bridge_anxiety
· 6h ago
UNI is indeed impressive, but I feel that ASTER's approach has more room for imagination... Building an ecosystem from zero to one is much more challenging than direct monetization.
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🔥 The deflationary war heats up: which approach will ultimately succeed?
A wave of deflationary sentiment is sweeping the market, but ASTER and UNI, the two major players, have given very different answers.
🪙 ASTER's approach: Building an ecosystem from scratch
This guy doesn't just play the simple buyback and burn strategy. When real revenue comes in, they immediately launch a "money-burning plan," and team up with Japanese financial giant SBI to develop compliant stablecoins. The logic is clear— the more the ecosystem is used, the more deflationary it becomes; conversely, the more the tokens are used, the more valuable they become. By tying usage frequency directly to token value, the ecosystem itself becomes the value.
💎 UNI's strategy: Monetizing traffic
As the world's largest top-tier DEX, UNI plays it more straightforwardly. The protocol is already a giant; it simply switches to a fee-based model, burning all the revenue to governance tokens. In the past, governance tokens were just voting tools; now, they stand for real protocol revenue behind the scenes.
👉 The core difference is simple:
One is building a deflationary ecosystem from zero, the other is injecting the value of an existing massive protocol directly into the tokens.
Which side do you prefer? Long-term bet on ecosystem growth, or short-term gains from protocol revenue?