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Also called automated market makers (AMMs), there are different types of bonding curves, including but not limited to constant product, constant function, concentrated liquidity, variable product, time-weighted, and even order book-based bonding curves. Bonding curves have also been \u2018augmented\u2019 with the addition of common pool treasuries or even prediction markets, in order to improve the collective signaling capacity of these new tools for social and ecosystemic benefit.\n\nOur mission is to drive forward the research, development, education, and application of Bonding Curves in their various forms.\n\nWhat Success Looks Like:\n\nSocial media content posts, digestible and thought provoking\n\nPosts have community traction, bringing in new leads and interest into the TEC\n\nImproved methodology for analyzing Bonding Curves on-chain data\n\nExplore new bonding curve mechanisms and shed light to the creators of the provisions to include in their bonding curve : Shutdown & Liquidation Procedures, Develop gamified UX visualizations of the Bonding Curve where members can play with the parameter to see the final impact.\n\nOther unanticipated positive externalities discovered through research\n\nWe would like to use our research to ultimately develop a Product & Services Business Model around Bonding Curves and are also going to experiment with launching our own investable workstream and bonding curve with Inverter Network.", "hidden": false, "question": "What specific problem(s) do you seek to solve with this grant, and how will you know whether you have accomplished your goal(s)?", "questionId": 6}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "This is just the beginning of the utility of bonding curves, and current tools have only taken the first steps to explore this design space. Bonding Curves are a gateway for engineered control systems to facilitate and improve the economic management and value accrual systems of Web3.\n", "hidden": false, "question": "Describe how your project contributes to token engineering and why is it a valuable public good.", "questionId": 7}, {"type": "short-answer", "answer": "MVP", "hidden": false, "question": "What stage do you consider your project is currently in? (PoC, MVP, fully integrated project, etc.)", "questionId": 8}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "The BCRG was founded in March 2023 and has three operational workstreams including Education & Content, Research & Ideation and Bonding Curve Analysis & Modeling. Here is a list of some of the work produced:\n\nExploring Bonding Curves: Differentiating Primary and Secondary Automated Market Makers - https://mirror.xyz/0x8fF6Fe58b468B1F18d2C54e2B0870b4e847C730d/1Pxl_fbIPifIQ4_y0xoJGZGEk70qfOM3Gi9nWycm-8k\n\nKnowledge Library - a collection of resources discussing bonding curves and the mechanism design space for crypto economic system - https://www.notion.so/Knowledge-Library-ea2a517d82b142778e033a45bc115a80\n\nCase Studies (WIP) - case studies done on projects that have employed Primary Automatic Market Makers - https://www.notion.so/PAMM-Case-Studies-e994a43ab4dc4661aa355f868a20071e\n\nBonding Curve Classification Notebook (WIP) - a quick look at different kinds of curves and their equations - https://www.notion.so/Bonding-Curve-Classification-0e85d52249594c6aaaf7e3dcdcd958b1\n\nAugmented Bonding Curve Model Github Repo (WIP) - an opensource python model used to simulate the Augmented Bonding Curve from the TEC ecosystem\n\nBonding Curves Parameters Model - https://github.com/bonding-curves/conding/blob/main/conding/pamm/abc.py\n\nToken Engineering Commons Dune Dashboard & Python Translation - https://dune.com/rxx_/bondingcurves", "hidden": false, "question": "Please share any new updates or milestones from the prior months.", "questionId": 9}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "We applied and received catalytic funding from the Token Engineering Commons and Gitcoin, however we need further funding to continue in Phase 2 of our research and development so are currently applying for grants.", "hidden": false, "question": "Previous project funding sources (VC, grants, token sales, etc.)", "questionId": 10}, {"type": "number", "answer": "17000", "hidden": false, "question": "Total prior funding for the project in USD.", "questionId": 11}, {"type": "short-answer", "hidden": true, "question": "How did you hear about the TE Grants Program?", "questionId": 12, "encryptedAnswer": {"ciphertext": "yX4Xx8a4A0U7MFnHQoKZ240+1/K3gERKduTKCwlmuH41CYETmpqM+e5CuULRSU5W", "encryptedSymmetricKey": "f8aa656fd3fefc7934b4ef2111d8de3ec88237419c74b5dc0d02ecf2319c6b16bafd80ff37ae1b489c186c53dcdd8f117871c6ef016ef51f40702f4de0f91ee2314d816bffdc861ef8a84ec1e4fbced0f08bac114c6f784b4d3d189daaeb85a9d46d10a0f25cfdde3fe25d21f69717f90dcd3867d64678dd9069953e3f80b00100000000000000209ea6e484a910c5187787fd98f1d99c4129025134a0cb18ac72ba721c7c0fa71e7c4a497e02153da2b4e1e7f85b8396a7"}}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "Thank you for supporting Token Engineering public goods and the Bonding Curve Research Group! \ud83d\ude4f", "hidden": false, "question": "Anything else you'd like to share about your project, previous work, or other project affiliations? Anything you'd like to add that has not been covered?", "questionId": 13}], "project": {"id": "10:0x8e1bD5Da87C14dd8e08F7ecc2aBf9D1d558ea174:974", "title": "Bonding Curve Research Group (BCRG)", "logoImg": "bafkreihm7vwebl3lu6gz5i245czbockzwc4v7f4zvh5ked2dzeebeeu4e4", "metaPtr": {"pointer": "bafkreihcj67awkruc66evaq7v63cfltc7r5ylsursmnx53ctle4me7jfjy", "protocol": "1"}, "website": "https://auspicious-cap-b5c.notion.site/Bonding-Curve-Research-Group-a0fe00e81d84435a8fddd547a7888063", "bannerImg": "bafkreicfu4kalr3c7w75ctggxystnjvtryzyh2e62lrtjaannslfktnlx4", "createdAt": 1692040900341, "userGithub": "jessicazartler", "credentials": {"twitter": {"type": ["VerifiableCredential"], "proof": {"jws": "eyJhbGciOiJFZERTQSIsImNyaXQiOlsiYjY0Il0sImI2NCI6ZmFsc2V9..K8U5BM2aMNEMwA9iAlCCy8WgpFSsNE8Pt5nUienHHSfTdGSohpOVlfXzF6tEwVyBljs9ifwkvxS9U6r2NCXADA", "type": "Ed25519Signature2018", "created": "2023-08-14T19:18:55.877Z", "proofPurpose": "assertionMethod", "verificationMethod": "did:key:z6MkghvGHLobLEdj1bgRLhS4LPGJAvbMA1tn2zcRyqmYU5LC#z6MkghvGHLobLEdj1bgRLhS4LPGJAvbMA1tn2zcRyqmYU5LC"}, "issuer": "did:key:z6MkghvGHLobLEdj1bgRLhS4LPGJAvbMA1tn2zcRyqmYU5LC", "@context": ["https://www.w3.org/2018/credentials/v1"], "issuanceDate": "2023-08-14T19:18:55.877Z", "expirationDate": "2023-11-12T19:18:55.877Z", "credentialSubject": {"id": "did:pkh:eip155:1:0xb2821C0DF0c414ff51D3e8033CBA26DF6AaC587b", "hash": "v0.0.0:wM+rca21gLszHDNNCCr9aTqqOHdEHoMPWfuVZiIt+IE=", "@context": [{"hash": "https://schema.org/Text", "provider": "https://schema.org/Text"}], "provider": "ClearTextTwitter#Bonding_Curves"}}}, "description": "\u2694\ufe0f The Challenge:\nSustained bear markets have been a huge challenge for token valuations, with many DAOs and organizations seeing massive selloffs and price drops in the 90%+ range. When token price is a primary driver of the capacity to carry out work in a DAO ecosystem, volatile token prices are a hindrance to production in Web3 organizations.\n\n \ud83d\udea6The Opportunity:\nUsing bonding curves as a continuous token issuance mechanism, organizations or communities can leverage algorithmic reserve and liquidity management strategies to provide volatility-damped token price fluctuations. The Token Engineering Commons Augmented Bonding Curve is a prime example of this, outperforming ETH through the bear market. This should be studied and exemplified in order to broaden education on these tools, and establish connections with organizations who need help designing and deploying them, which could also serve as revenue streams for further work and research.\n\n\ud83d\udcaa Seizing the Opportunity:\nThis research group will provide research, development, education, and application of Bonding Curves in their various forms. This research body and content deliverables will attract new talent and interest in the field of Token Engineering, and it will additionally allow for a common understanding and language around bonding curves and their applications to DAOs, businesses, finance, and economics in general. This research could offer improvements for understanding the design and ongoing operation of these new economic mechanisms, benefiting the field of Token Engineering directly through upgraded tools like dashboards and simulators, but also indirectly through networking and deal flow.\n\nBonding curves are an emergent, Web3 native, economic primitive that redefine markets and liquidity. By determining price as proportional to supply, liquidity can be built into an economy, ending the era of market crunches, and enabling transparent and discoverable market prices for assets. The research, development and education in token economic primitives like bonding curves and cutting-edge research in the TE field has profound potential and implications for our economic systems.\n\n\u2934\ufe0f Overview of Bonding Curves:\nBonding curves are an interesting new tool in the Web3 space, which can provide various automated dealer functions that tie two or more elements of a system together through mathematical relationships encoded into smart contracts. Also called automated market makers (AMMs), there are different types of bonding curves, including but not limited to constant product, constant function, concentrated liquidity, variable product, time-weighted, and even order book-based bonding curves. Bonding curves have also been \u2018augmented\u2019 with the addition of common pool treasuries or even prediction markets, in order to improve the collective signaling capacity of these new tools for social and ecosystemic benefit. \n\nThis is just the beginning of their utility, and current tools have only taken the first steps to explore this design space. Bonding Curves are a gateway for engineered control systems to facilitate and improve the economic management and value accrual systems of Web3.\n\nOur mission is to drive forward the research, development, education, and application of Bonding Curves in their various forms.\n\n\ud83c\udfaf The Purpose of this Research Group:\nThe goal of this proposal is to establish a foundation for continuous research, development, and education around bonding curves. Our aim is to establish a deeper understanding of bonding curves in general, and a more thorough analysis of their applications thus far, including the TEC Augmented Bonding Curve. We plan to create a content funnel about bonding curves that educates the wider public and motivates projects seeking bonding curve expertise to connect with our community. This, in turn, will fuel the growth and development of the bonding curve space while providing economic opportunities to those involved with developing bonding curves for projects.\n\n\u2699\ufe0f Continuous Development and Research Methodology:\nIt is worth noting that research initiatives are fundamentally different from development processes, which is one reason we are proposing this as a research \u2018marathon\u2019 work, as opposed to more task-based \u2018sprints\u2019 commonly held on faster time cycles among development teams. Research is fundamentally an exploratory exercise, often without clear outcomes at the outset of the initiative. For that reason, we will set deliverables such as content production timelines and hours input into processes as they\u2019ve been laid out, rather than trying to determine ahead of time the exact topics or outcomes produced by the end of this first research marathon.\n\n\ud83d\udcda Past Work & Achievements : \nThe BCRG was founded in March 2023  and has three operational workstreams including Education & Content, Research & Ideation and Bonding Curve Analysis & Modeling. Here is a list of some of the work produced:\n\n1. Exploring Bonding Curves: Differentiating Primary and Secondary Automated Market Makers - https://mirror.xyz/0x8fF6Fe58b468B1F18d2C54e2B0870b4e847C730d/1Pxl_fbIPifIQ4_y0xoJGZGEk70qfOM3Gi9nWycm-8k\n2. Knowledge Library - a collection of resources discussing bonding curves and the mechanism design space for crypto economic system - https://www.notion.so/Knowledge-Library-ea2a517d82b142778e033a45bc115a80\n3. Case Studies (WIP) - case studies done on projects that have employed Primary Automatic Market Makers - https://www.notion.so/PAMM-Case-Studies-e994a43ab4dc4661aa355f868a20071e\n4. Bonding Curve Classification Notebook (WIP) - a quick look at different kinds of curves and their equations - https://www.notion.so/Bonding-Curve-Classification-0e85d52249594c6aaaf7e3dcdcd958b1\n5. Augmented Bonding Curve Model Github Repo (WIP) - an opensource python model used to simulate the Augmented Bonding Curve from the TEC ecosystem\n6. Bonding Curves Parameters Model - https://github.com/bonding-curves/conding/blob/main/conding/pamm/abc.py\n7. Token Engineering Commons Dune Dashboard & Python Translation - https://dune.com/rxx_/bondingcurves\n\n\ud83d\udcb8 Past Funding : \nWe applied and received catalytic funding from the Token Engineering Commons and Gitcoin, however we need further funding to continue in Phase 2 of our research and development so are currently applying for grants. \n\n\ud83c\udf96\ufe0f What Success Looks Like:\n1. Social media content posts, digestible and thought provoking\n2. Posts have community traction, bringing in new leads and interest into the TEC\n3. Improved methodology for analyzing Bonding Curves on-chain data\n4. Explore new bonding curve mechanisms and shed light to the creators of the provisions to include in their bonding curve : Shutdown & Liquidation Procedures, Develop gamified UX visualizations of the Bonding Curve where members can play with the parameter to see the final impact. \n5. Other unanticipated positive externalities discovered through research\n6. We would like to use our research to ultimately develop a Product & Services Business Model around Bonding Curves and are also going to experiment with launching our own investable workstream and bonding curve with Inverter Network. \n\n\ud83d\udd0a How We Will Share Progress:\n1. Transparent shared work processes (call notes, Miro board, call recordings as available)\n2. TEC forum announcements every third week, with links to posts & other work\n3. Scheduled interest group in the TEC Discord at the completion of the research marathon\n4. Deliverable outputs (videos, tweets, articles, etc) will be shared with the TEC community and beyond\n\nThank you for supporting Token Engineering public goods and the Bonding Curve Research Group! \ud83d\ude4f", "lastUpdated": 0, "projectGithub": "bonding-curves", "projectTwitter": "Bonding_Curves"}, "recipient": "0x29567BdBcC92aCF37AC6B56B69180857bB69f7D1"}}