>currently low market cap >simple, solid and rugproof project >team has proven to be legit time after time >huge pumps in the past - shown to have potential for very large jumps >solid support line met, great entry point
Statera (STA) is a smart contract powered Indexed Deflationary Token (IDT), which synergizes with a trustless and community driven portfolio of class-leading cryptocurrencies.
Every trade for Statera creates an arbitrage opportunity. Trading attracts liquidity, which in-turn attracts trading. Liquidity ripples and the supply of Statera decreases.
To begin this discussion, I will ask, "What is an index fund?" An index fund is a fund that can track a specified basket of underlying investments and in this case: BTC, ETH, LINK, and SNX all "balanced" with STA. These coins are set in the fund at a specified percent so as one goes up or down the others are automatically bought or sold to balance risk and maximize profit. HOWEVER, the key is that STA is deflationary (whenever a STA transaction happens for buying/selling/pooling, 1% of said transaction is burned). This token burn along with tokens being locked in pools, pressures prices up to again make sure the other coins will be balanced, but also creates arbitrage opportunities across funds.
Why is increasing volume, liquidity and arbitrage useful with STATERA? Well while pooling STATERA you earn a percent of all transaction fees in the liquidity pool. Please feel free to read the medium article outlining the first 2-3 months which came out to be an APY of 36% essentially creating dividends where there were none (medium.com/@stateraproject). The power of STA is that the ripple effect of: (1) compounded fees, (2) token burn, (3) price pulled by balancing with ETH, BTC, SNX and LINK leads to an exponential effect and positive feedback loop on price. This leads to the concept created by STATERA known as "Volume Farming."
Can the team dump? No, this is the most decentralized token as the project much like BTC is out of Satoshi's hands, STA is out of the hands of the devs who only own
Can’t I just hold BTC, ETH, LINK or any other coins and balance my own index fund? Yes, but can you add in a way to collect dividends (>36% APY) on your coins based solely on their volume/trading? Can you add in a mechanism that causes constant upward pressure in your index fund? Can you capitalize on every arbitrage opportunity for all the above coins to auto-balance and make gains when possible 24/7? Can you do all of the above in a trustless and truly decentralized (largest holder ~6% of supply) manner?
What is the low volume/high volatility problem? If an asset or contract has low volume then it is susceptible to high volatility. This leads to the premature failure of many promising projects and contracts early in development and is one of the main barriers to a fully decentralized and digital world. A simple quant balancer cannot solve this as in finance 1.0 because if the volatilty is too high then such a balancer is subject to fail also. However the addition of a deflationary mechanism creates inherent feedback ensuring that it cannot fail unless the entire digital market (ETH, BTC, LINK) collapses. It allows new projects and new contracts to solve the initial growing pains of high volatility and manipulation. But what if bad actors simply manipulate STA? This is why the fully decentralized aspect is important.
But what if no one uses it? Then it fails. However, here are some possible reasons to support why it will be used include: First-mover advantage (FMA) and simply put, people are already using it. If BAL and subsequently Phoenix go on coinbase then it will not be long until STA is cemented as the industry standard. However, this is the key. If we do not utilize this tool then it will fail. This does not mean we need more people buying it. But more people using it and allowing it to be integrated into their pools, funds, contracts, etc. If more projects integrate it then new buyers are not necessary and therefore new holders of STA are not needed to generate income using STATERA as a community balancing tool.
Why is the price so low if this project is so promising? This project was greatly anticipated, and it is still very young (4 months old) and it was very bullish since its inception. However, BALANCER labs was hacked utilizing the STATERA deflationary mechanism which has since been fixed utilizing the Delta token. Even more impressive is that STATERA and then BAL refunded the tokens lost during the hack which given the steep increase in price of the tokens we far more money than the initial investors lost. Crypto YT personalities such as Bitboy crypto, Chico Crypto and Ivan on Tech have all promoted STATERA with Ivan and Bitboy promoting STA and the applauding the refunds separately.
So why is this a moonshot? Given how young this project is and the rapid growth it has had from $0.03 to a local peak of $0.46 followed by a correction to $0.15-$0.30, it has garnered great interest in Zig Forums where it is now behind chainlink as one of the most promising projects for a "long-term hold". The number of holders continues to grow and is currently at ~4400 with volume rising regularly and recovered significantly since the price dip from the BAL hack. However, despite how bullish the community are, it is still only a 11 mill mcap to 30 mill mcap coin. Given the use case and integration with blue-chip coins it is not unreasonable to see it achieve an mcap of a top 50 coin, but that is conjecture on my part. Beyond this the project's team is actively working on new ways to increase liquidity, volume, transaction fees, arb opportunities, etc. by getting STA listing on multiple new exchanges including 5 new exchanges coming in September, 2020, and new integrations and pools for STATERA to balance.
I am happy to discuss price projections and the calculations that went into it, but the current models used for price prediction will need to be taken with a grain of salt given the assumptions made in the models (BTC reaching 80k by EONY, for example). For now, I am happy to have had your attention. Please let me know your thoughts and recommendations as they are greatly appreciated.
