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Writer's pictureEvgeny Lyandres

Product market competition with crypto tokens and smart contracts


This paper models benefits of quoting output price in units of crypto token under duopolistic product market competition with switching costs. Pricing output in tokens provides a firm with a de facto second-mover advantage, raising its equilibrium profit. In addition, the firm can further increase its equilibrium profit by committing via a smart con- tract to the number of tokens sold. By focusing on utility tokens used at the product market competition stage, the paper highlights potential benefits of issuing crypto tokens that extend beyond the advantages of issuing security tokens at the venture financing stage. 



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