Token Engineering Panel
summary
Panel argues token design must become a real engineering discipline with theory, practice, tools and responsibility, not marketing. Concrete prescriptions: build and test modular components, run low-level experiments on primitives like staking, TCRs and burn mechanisms, and add circuit breakers and warm-up validator pools (one-year warm-up example) or market makers to limit price-externality risk. Major gap is tooling: simulators missing and hard-to-iterate smart contracts force careful, simple designs and staged decentralization. (ETHBerlin 2018 — https://ethberlin.com https://decentralala.com/ https://goerli.net)
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chapters (11)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:26Token engineering defined
- 3:56Tokens as provably fair games
- 8:18Managing price volatility
- 10:49Iteration versus decentralization
- 15:02Successful token projects
- 17:32Modular token systems
- 21:02Proven blockchain components
- 23:10Security and interoperability
- 27:25Experimentation and tooling
- 28:27Token design advice
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