Protocol Economics
December 2024
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M2M means mark-to-market the reevaluation due to a price change of an asset or liability.
All prices are taken at end of day, this can lead to some discrepancies and inflating the Swap P&L (as trade record doesn’t occur at the same price as the trade itself).
Most data are sourced from Dune Analytics.
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
Revenues > Cash Burn
120 months runway
($8.3M) loss in December due to ETH M2M
Endowment recurring revenues covering 40% of cash burn
Revenues and Cash
vs $1.8M last month
vs $2.2M last year
vs $0.9M last month
vs $1.4M last year
1.05x cash burn
Cash burn and reserves
vs $1.1M last month
vs $0.7M last year
vs $142M last month
vs $100M last year
of which:�- 126.3M ETH
- 7.3M USDC
Normalized burn is a weighted average over the last twelve month with a weight of 12 for the current month decreasing to 1 twelves month ago. Cash burn doesn’t include ENS token given.
Endowment
$23.5M Stablecoins invested
$77M ETH invested
of which:�- ($8.8M) from ETH M2M
- $443K from Invest P&L (2)
(2) Count token yield farming rewards when claimed and converted to base currency
Annex 1 - Balance sheet
Annex 2 - Income statement
Annex 3 - Long term financials
Income statement doesn’t show Short Name Claims but they are accounted for in the aggregate.�Other expenses for 2021/2022 are ENS airdrop.
Annex 4 - Token Balance by Wallet and Currency
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