Cointelegraph Research: Valuing a crypto payment token
A new report valuing payment tokens estimates the market size of each token’s relevant use cases based on the rate of actual adoption. For payment tokens such as Alchemy Pay’s ACH, there may not necessarily be a world where cryptocurrencies are widely accepted as a medium of exchange for everyday transactions, such as buying a gallon of milk in the grocery store, without fiat. This is because two parallel economies exist, and bridges between fiat and cryptocurrency are needed for the time being.But how does one price such a token with payments as its bedrock? Is there a way to arrive at a....
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