Re:Report on Stablecoins [pdf]
by Animats on Tuesday November 02, 2021 @02:16AM
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The Beanie Baby market on eBay is useful to study because it shows much the same behavior as NFTs. Beanie Babies are non-fungible - each one is different. So there's no "market price", just lots of individual offers. On eBay, you'll see asking prices around $5000. But if you look at completed transaction info, prices are around $50. That's what an illiquid market looks like. NFTs behave the same way - high asking prices, few transactions. Such markets don't crash, they stall.
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Interesting! I see that there are grading/authentication services out there for Beanie Babies. That makes sense, as a lot of commodities have systems for taking unique objects and making them tradable. E.g., the CME wheat contract definition is extremely specific: https://www.cmegroup.com/content/dam/cmegroup/rulebook/CBOT/...
I wonder if we'll see things like that in the NFT market.