For a long time the HVOTE token has been smiled upon and it was considered, also by myself, as a kind of experiment. The idea behind it, is to tokenize a steem account (@happyvoter). The account value belongs to the holder of the HVOTE token. The main part of the proceeds of the account are invested in powering up, making the account more and more valuable.
Faster progress than with curation rewards alone
If you had bought 1 Hvote token in february 2019, when the project was created, you would have paid 0.525 Steem per token. Today, 10 months later, the value of 1 Hvote token is 0.6635 Steem! This represents an increase of 26.38% or something of 30% per annum. Which is much more than can be achieved with curation rewards alone. With delegations you can reach up to 18% p.a and with curation rewards something like 14% p.a. on the steem ecosystem.
Why does the value of the HVOTE token develop so fast?
- Curation rewards
The development of the Hvote token is based on different pillars. First of all it follows the curation trail of @help.venezuela which supports quality authors from Venezuela. This gives a regular income in terms of curation rewards. - Author rewards
Writing one quality posts a week allows the account to generate some decent author rewards. - Income from market spread
The Hvote token can be purchased on steem-engine. There is however a spread (difference between buying and selling price). Thanks to this spread, each transaction that affects the Hvote token, brings additional money into the token. - Hvote token holders can influence the value of the token directly
When you hold Hvote tokens, you can influence the value of the token directly simply by upvoting the weekly post. In addition to getting interesting curation rewards, your upvote affects the author reward of the post, which in turns will increase the value of the token.
A limited supply to avoid market manipulation
There are only a limited number of tokens for sale every week. Every week around 4% new tokens are put on the market. This is to provide an organic growth of the value and also to avoid jumps in the price development. This is basically a mecanismes that should ensure that users cannot manipulate the market in an extreme way.
Every week some tokens are bought back
A part from the weekly income goes into a pot that buys the tokens back. This provides a certain liquidity that allows users also to sell their tokens if they need the coins in the short term.
Is there a danger that the token looses value?
Of course the token is linked directly to steem. If steem tanks, so does the token. But otherwise, the account can only increase in value. In addition, it is totally transparent how the account works. You just have to check https://steemd.com/@happyvoter to see what happens with the token.
What happens if the account is dissolved one day?
If this is the case, the account would be powered down and the steem that is liberated like that would be distributed to the token holders.
HVOTE Explained (Video)
HVOTE Whitepaper - Adaptation after HF21
HVOTE Explorer
HVOTE Market on Steem-Engine
Wow
A yield of 26.38% for something you started with a smile, without taking it very seriously ... Well it is a very number!
Hi,
Thanks a lot for your comment. It's true. What started out as a little project, took quite a nice dimension.
Best regards,
Achim
Well, keep growing. :)
Good wishes and successes to you.
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Hi @happyvoter.
Very well thought friend and very transparent, you are doing a great job ...
If I buy anything from this Token, do I receive it in steem engine and for the purposes of curation does it work like steemleo tokens for example?
Hi fucho80,
You can buy the token from steem enging but you don't have to stake it. You just have to hodl the token. The longer you keep it, the more its value will grow. The curation rewards are flowing into the value of the Hvote token.
Hope this was clear ;-)
Best regards,
Achim
I forgot to mention that this account follows the curation trail of help.venezuela. So you the more tokens are sold, the bigger the value of the account, the more the people from Venezuela get powerful upvotes!
Thanks @happyvoter.
Perfect, very clear everything, I just have to keep it and wait because its value is rising.
Dear @happyvoter, @achim03
Another interesting read. upvoted already :)
That's very true. However first question many people would ask - is this token providing some liquidity? If there is very little (or zero) trade happening then it's easy to push price of the token up, however at the same time it may be not possible to sell it within such a price (or not possible to sell it at all).
No offence Achim, but HVOTE for many people out there may look like another token, which is trying to "milk the cow" (cow = steem blockchain).
Cheers, Piotr
Hi @crypto.piotr,
Thanks a lot for your upvote and your comment.
When I speak about the token value of Hvote, I speak about a theoretical value which is the Steem Power of the underlying account divided by the number of tokens in circulation. This is not linked to a market directly and doesn't necesserly reflect the price of the token.
30% of the liquid steem that is generated by the account every week flows into a buy-back fund. With this amount, every week some buy orders are put on the market so that people can actually sell their tokens. This might not be enough of course but like that every week some tokens can be sold by users at a fair value. This is much better than what most other tokens offer in my eyes.
No offence taken but I don't agree with your assessment. Let's say you buy a Hvote token for something like 0.65 Steem. This means that you have 1 token and 0.65 steem will be on the account of happyvoter. At the end of the week 100% of this will be powered up. In my opinion this is the contrary of milking the steem blockchain since every purchase increases the steem that is powered up...
Have a nice week-end my friend
Best regards,
Achim