Dlike IEO: what am I missing?
As you might know, I think investing in projects on the Steem Blockchain by delegation is part of the blockchain's future.
@steemhunt is the first project that is offering more ROI than a bitbot on delegation and when their HUNT token goes live for trading on the Daybit exchange April 15th it will be really cool to see how the price will develop.
But there is currently another project on the blockchain offering an amazing return on Delegation.
It's DLIKE.
Because investing with Steempower has my peak interest right now, I dove into it and there is just something I don't understand about this one.
They are offering a 1:1 return on delegated STEEMPOWER in this post.
1 SP = 1 DLIKE token per day.
They also have an IEO on the IDCM exchange going currently selling DLIKE tokens for $0,025 each. here.
But let's do the math:
If I would buy 10000 STEEM @ 0,43 = $4300
A DLIKE token in the IEO = 0.025 USD.
Investing $4300 in the IEO = 172,000 DLIKE tokens.
But buying 10000 STEEM and delegating it = 10000 DLIKE tokens per day.
In 17 days you would be able to earn 170,000 DLIKE tokens and still have 10000 STEEM.
Total Sales Amount: 8,000,000 DLIKE in the IEO.
In other words, If I would delegate my full 200k SP I would earn the whole IEO in 40 days.
Why would anyone invest in the IEO? What am I missing?
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I delegated just a small amount of SP (100.872 SP) on 2018-11-10 and have earned 27,608 DLIKE tokens (worth $690.2 based on IEO pricing).
At current STEEM levels, that’s a $42 “investment” (though, like you said, I still own my STEEM) and a 1600% return.
I was pretty early as a delegator, which is why I kept the amount small as the platform was very bare at that point in time, but the risk was essentially null because I could’ve retracted the delegation at any moment in time.
As you said in your tweet earlier, this is such a better way of investing. I hope more people see that.
As for your question of why people might invest in an IEO:
I think there are many people out there who would invest in tokens like DLIKE or HUNT who either have no interest in buying STEEM or who don’t have the knowledge that you’ve shared here (delegating is essentially a no-risk way of earning the same or more tokens than simply buying them in an IEO).
This also makes me excited about the STEEM price because if we can inform these potential investors about the benefits of hodling SP and then delegating, we could drive a consistent demand for STEEM!
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Wont the price dump though? Most people are going to want to cash in that profit, I can't see there being enough buyers. Most ICO's dumped in price as soon as they were tradeable, I think the same will happen with IEO's.
It’s definitely possible that the price could dump. I think IEO’s are a slightly different game than ICOs in terms of who’s buying and why they’re buying in.
It’s going to come down to utility. Can the team behind an IEO give their token enough utility to make it worth hodling? Certain tokens have that value already - STEEM, for example, is encouraging to hold because of the upvote power, RCs, passive return on investment, etc.
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I delegated to dlike a long time ago. As you said, I wanted to be part of a project that was going to give me some kind of return. My biggest problem is I am not exactly sure what their plans are. I still haven't figured out what the ultimate goal of their platform is going to be. That has kept me from investing more than I already have. You are right through, the model does seem a bit odd. I am just hoping one day I can sell some of my dlike tokens for a decent return.
Talking about DLike: i also do not understand the math behind what they are doing with their IEO.
Yesterday, I tried the service for the first time and I also wonder what the intention is for this service. The UI seems to be for posting only, not discovering... they didn't build in any discovery feature like tags, search, or anything else than showing the last 90 contributions. Since the DLike post I made, more than 90 followed and my own post is not visible in DLike anymore.
In addition, I posted a youtube video and added some words around it, but seem not be able to read the textual part in the DLike interface. I need to go to Steemit UI or any sister UI to be able to get to the complete post.
I usually try and curate on most steem dapps such as steemhunt and actifit but every time I've logged onto dlike unfortunately I never saw anything worthy of curation. Not keeping my hopes up for this one but I wish them luck.
You clearly havent seen what i share on there then @acidyo 🤔🤣
Could be, I have to admit I haven't spent a lot of time on it.
Same here! Following it with interest though. Might delegate some SP but like to see a better value proposition first.
You're right, but I also wonder what those tokens are actually useful for. I couldn't find anything on the Dlike website nor in the whitepaper, so I wonder why anyone would even want to have tokens. Does anyone know?
Obviously, after the IEO it might happen that the price crashes because anyone who's had some might want to liquidate. Basically, a fair price could precisely be determined by the capital cost for buying STEEM and staking them for Dlike rather than selfvoting or delegating to a bot.
So I guess your model is the better one, even if the rewards structure obviously won't be sustainable.
Interesting information, Mark, but often when tokens appear on the stock exchange the price drops sharply in the first days and I would consider the possibility of delegation after April 20!
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That would be fabulous if the DLIKE token is valued at .42. Not so much if its value is .00042.