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Snack Token
A token-design exercise: modeling incentives for a snack-brand loyalty token without the usual crypto wishful thinking.
Snack Token is a tokenomics thought experiment done honestly: instead of assuming appreciation, it models a loyalty token for a snack brand with real redemption sinks, issuance tied to purchase, and inflation math that doesn’t rely on new buyers forever. Most loyalty tokens fail this arithmetic; the exercise shows where.
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