Tokenomics 101: Creating a Hive-Based Cryptocurrency for Your Business Using Hive Engine
Hey there, fellow entrepreneurs of the HiveHustlers community! Are you ready to take your business to the next level? Or are you looking at getting your own side hustle started on the blockchain and just not sure how to get started? If you've been exploring the world of cryptocurrencies and blockchain, you might have heard about creating your own digital tokens to benefit your enterprise. Well, today we're going to dive headfirst into the crazy world of tokenomics and discover how to create a Hive-based cryptocurrency for your business using Hive Engine.
Why Hive-Based Cryptocurrency?
Before we delve into the how, let's first explore the why. Why would you want to create a Hive-based cryptocurrency for your business over other blockchains? Well, here are a few compelling reasons:
Community Engagement: By creating your own cryptocurrency on the Hive blockchain, you can foster deeper community engagement. It's like having your own mini-economy within the larger Hive ecosystem. Creating a Hive Engine Outpost for your community around your token can also open you up to having your own NFT marketplace which gives your token another use case for your customers to use.
Branding and Loyalty: Your custom tokens can serve as a unique branding tool. They create a sense of exclusivity and loyalty among your customers, motivating them to engage more with your business. They will want to stake your token to earn more, or find other ways to trade and use your token in the wider ecosystem, which could be like a word of mouth type of promotion for your business.
Fundraising and Investment: You can use your tokens for fundraising, allowing your community to invest in your business, potentially raising capital without traditional methods. Depending on where your business is located in the world, you may want to check with your local regulators to see if you have to register your token as a security. When using for fundraising purposes, like having an ICO or Initial Coin Offering could land you in some regulatory crosshairs. So be careful on how you approach the distribution of your token.
Incentivize Actions: Use your tokens to incentivize certain actions, such as content creation, participation, or referrals, further driving engagement. You can hold contests and giveaways to help build attraction to your brand. This has proven to be an effective tool for many different communities and businesses on Hive.
Now that you're aware and excited about the possibilities, and this doesn't even really cover what you can do with NFTs, let's get into the nitty-gritty of creating your Hive-based cryptocurrency.
Getting Started with Your Hive Engine Token
Hive Engine is a powerful tool that allows you to create and manage your custom tokens on the Hive blockchain. Here's how to get started:
1. Hive Account and Wallet
First things first, create a Hive account if you don't already have one, and ensure you have enough Hive Power to cover transaction fees. This is the base currency you'll use for transactions on the Hive blockchain. It is suggested to install the Hive Keychain application on your browser and your mobile phone to manage your account.
2. Hive Engine or Tribaldex
You will log into either Hive-engine.com or more preferably, Tribaldex with your Hive credentials. Here is where you will have the ability to create your own tokens or even your own token based community, called an Outpost.
3. Token and Outpost Creation
Once you are logged into your Hive Engine account, you can create your custom token. Choose a unique name, set the supply, and add a logo to make it visually appealing. You will need the Hive Engine token called BEE to pay for the token creation fees. It cost 100 BEE for basic token creation, but if you want to add staking features, it's 1000 BEE, and delegation functions is another 1000 BEE.
On top of this, if you want an outpost, which is a custom front end for your community that operates on your token, you will need to pay another 5000 BEE for this creation. To add an NFT Marketplace, that's another 100 BEE. A swap pool which gives your token DEFI capabilities is 1000 BEE and the rewards pool that pays out people for providing liquidity to your swap pool is another 100 BEE.
4. Define Token Properties
Decide what your token represents and its use case. Is it for a loyalty program, a virtual item, or a stake in your business? Set its properties accordingly. If you create a community, you can let it be the reward token to participate and engage.
5. Distribution
Determine how you'll distribute your tokens. This part takes allot of thought and planning. It will also make or break you with regulators. Will you reward them to users for specific actions, sell them, or a combination of both? For instance our HUSTLER token is earned by posting to our community. We have a unique token ecosystem though (long story) but when you stake the HUSTLER token, you will then earn other tokens in the ecosystem. It's pretty cool stuff, but can get real complicated if you don't know what you are doing. So feel free to reach out if you need some assistance.
6. Market and Trading
Tokens on Hive Engine are tradable. You can set up a market for your token, allowing users to buy and sell them on various exchanges within the Hive Engine ecosystem. You can set up the swap pools or diesel pools and set up rewards for those who provide liquidity. Trading these tokens can be a fun way to earn more and build value in your business. People can earn your token then trade it for SWAP.HIVE on the market, or purchase any other token you set up a diesel pool for like Hive Backed Dollars, or HBD, or SWAP.BTC, which is the Hive Engine wrapped version of Bitcoin. These pools can bring more value and use case to your community.
Promoting and Using Your Token
Now that you've created your custom Hive-based cryptocurrency, it's time to promote and utilize it effectively. Here are some of the things you need to focus on:
1. Marketing
Spread the word about your token within the Hive community and on other social platforms. Explain its utility and how it benefits your community. The more consistent you are about promoting your token, the more exposure you will get. I suggest getting creative with your posts so that you don't seem like you are spamming the community. This makes your project look a bit on the fishy side.
2. Tokenomics
Develop a clear tokenomics plan. Define the rewards and incentives tied to your token and communicate this effectively to your community. You can do this as a post on the blockchain and it would be considered your token's whitepaper. Think of it as your token's business plan. You want people to know what your plans are in a clear and concise way.
3. Create Engagement
Use your token to encourage engagement within your community. Offer rewards, run contests, and gamify actions to keep your users actively participating. This can build up allot of hype behind your token if done correctly.
With an outpost front end, you can create a proof-of-brain model that would reward post creators and curators for the creation and engagement of blogs, videos, and more.
4. Monitor and Adjust
Regularly review the performance of your token and make adjustments as needed. Listen to user feedback and adapt to changing market conditions. Make posts on how the token is doing and what kind of developments are going for the future. It's important to be transparent with your community about what's going on with your token. If something is not working, use community feedback to find out the best solution for a change in direction. We have had to pivot and make adjustments a few times with our token economy.
The Bottom Line
Creating your own Hive-based cryptocurrency using Hive Engine is an exciting opportunity for entrepreneurs. It's a powerful way to strengthen your business, increase community engagement, and drive loyalty. Just remember, success in tokenomics is a journey, and you'll need to continuously innovate and adapt to see the best results.
So, what are you waiting for? Start exploring the world of Hive-based cryptocurrency and take your business to new heights. Your community is waiting to become a part of this exciting adventure! 🚀
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I've considered creating a family stablecoin first and then an investment coin with liquidity pools.
The stablecoin could serve as an alternative to the USD and be used to settle internal family debts (such as repaying my sister for money borrowed using the family stablecoin instead of the USD).
The "FamilySC" could feature a reserve account with multiple digital wallets that passively generates income through interest, similar to an account here accumulating HP and HBD. It would also hold crypto reserves of other stablecoins (HBD, BUSD, USDT, USDC) and a physical reserve (perhaps under the mattress, LOL). I'm uncertain about the appropriate fees to ensure liquidity; that's something to consider later. A nice additional feature would be providing a Basic Income for family members (I'm still unsure about what would be a decent rate).
For the fun of it, and to provide public access to the token, I might invest several thousand dollars in a liquidity pool to enhance stability for the family project. For instance, investing $5,000 in a FamilySC - HBD liquidity pool.
Next, an investment coin could be created along with another liquidity pool. This time, it would be a FamilySC with a FamilyIC (Family Investment Coin) liquidity pool. The coin would function as a reserve and store of wealth, with a considerably larger pool (worth over $50,000 according to the FamilySC price against HBD, as mentioned earlier).
There are many different approaches to this, but if I were to create my first token, it would be entirely focused on my family and my close network.
I would do something like that using the XDAO.app protocol on something like Polygon. They have some cool features where you could keep it stable but also maybe invest in some stable defi to let it gain some interest. This way the family can also get a governance token. I have looked heavily into this for my clan.
Hello there! We would need some help & clarification.
First, your website is down for quite some time. (We don't know if you are aware of it or not.)
Secondly, maybe we are missing something or don't understand your project or initiative, but as far as we can see and read, the HUSTLER token is your main token.
Its description says, " When staked, it will mine the COM token."
Unfortunately, this is not happening for quite some time as well, or to be precise, the last time the COM token was issued/sent to HUSTLER stakers by that mining contract was two months ago, on August 25, 2023.
Therefore, we would like to know if something has changed in the meantime, (as around here, we didn't find any such announcement) or if there is some other type of issue going on.
Thank you in advance!
Site is loading fine. It is ran on the Hive Engine servers, so if they have node issues it can effect our site.
As far as the COM tokens are concerned. I have been reworking the payout bots to work with the new Hive versions because the payouts were Erroring. This has been fixed and payments will resume on November 1.
The project is just a community project. The original creator of HiveHustlers created the original HUSTLER token, but then burned 80% of the supply because he didn't know how to work the tokenomics and was using it as a money grab. When the new party took over, we tried to go a different direction, but some damage had been done already.
Essentially, you earn the HUSTLER token, and if you stake it, you earn the Hivecommerce token which when staked pays out a portion of our SWAP.HIVE rewards from posts and curation. This number is set on a monthly basis, so when things got thrown off due to the base blockchain upgrades, we decided to pause payouts until the first of the month because it was a few days before we caught the issue.
We made an announcement on the Discord server about the pause.
When you are purchasing the tokens, you are NOT supporting our account because we don't sell any of the tokens, but the community itself. Anything purchased from the markets is sold by the community. And essentially we are just giving away our posting and curation rewards, really for no reason other than to try and build a community of entrepreneurs.
Well, we are aware of Hive-Engine node issues, especially lately. Still, it was a bit odd to us that we are such bad-luck guys, so every time we tried to access the site, it would be some HE node issue. We tried different browsers before. Therefore, after reading your reply, we tried to investigate it with a different approach, and finally, we found out what is the issue. Our operating system, as well as our virus and other malware protection software, rate your website security certificate as "not trusted" and, therefore, blocks it automatically. (We don't know why, and for now, we didn't investigate it further, as it could be for many different reasons, such as too strict configuration from our side or security certificate expiration from your side, etc. But at least it explains why we could access the site before, and for quite some while, not anymore.)
For the rest, thank you very much for your very comprehensive reply and the provided info. We believe that Web3-educated and prepared entrepreneurs may play a big role in the future (especially if they "arrive" there before big companies), and at the moment, it seems to us (with due respect to rare pioneers) as quite untaped and undeveloped field as on Hive the same on some other blockchains. Therefore, creating such a community and helping it to develop in this new environment is a good initial step for some future development.
Apart from that, when it comes to announcing some changes (inside your project), maybe you can consider or reconsider announcing it here (on your main account), as well. Although we know most users, or at least many of them, use Discord, there would still be those (if nothing, following the HUSTLER token description) who would still search for some news here first.
However, thank you for your reply once again!
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I understand your point, and usually pretty good about announcements, but I am really only one guy running the show (and this is not the only project I run) and have had way more going on than this in my regular life and it was an oversight. Again, it's really just me giving away my money for no reason, so I wasn't in a big hurry. It's been the kind of thing that I have supported the community more than the community has supported my efforts, so I haven't been too worried to be honest. This is more or less a side hustle at this point and the only thing I get out of it is some really poor post rewards, again, because I support the community more than they have supported me.
As far as the site, the SSL is working fine, so not sure why it's not showing as not trusted. It's hosted by Hive Engine so I don't have any control over that side of things.
We understand your struggle being the only one behind the project, and even better the feeling of giving away your money "for no reason." (Although we sell our token, there is still over 50% of our money as we constantly build up the account, and we are sharing 90% of curation earnings as the curation is the main goal of our project. And we manually curate on a daily base, that is time consuming struggle on its own while basically, we don't post except our monthly reports and just here and there some additional info sharing or updates posts. And yeah, we also share 90% of author's rewards from those posts, although we never announce it or even less our project promises it. So, we really do understand what does it mean giving support and receiving very little in return, and especially giving away own money "for no reason." But at the end of the day, it is our choice of how to support the community and help it grow with main (but not only) focus on minnows and newcomers. And despite hustle and bustle around it we feel obligated to fulfill our promises as otherwise we may easily lose trust and with it even that tiny support we are receiving in return.)
In other words, we didn't address you to criticize or even less judge you. We just wanted to know what is going on and why some things are not working anymore, so we can adjust our future plans regarding your token (HUSTLER).
Apart from that, and when it comes to the website accessibility, if it's not SSL certificate (although we still think it is), it could be about some additionally "planted" software or programs (with excessive data collection or similar) that are causing it.
However, the thing is that most if not all second layer tokens with its own interface use Hive-Engine hosting, starting from their own Tribaldex Blog, up to many others like ProofOfBrain.io, Sports Talk Social, We Are Alive And Social, Waivio, and many others which we can normally access without that "trust" issue poping up.
Therefore, we believe it's worthy to investigate if nothing because you are paying for that service.
Maybe you can ask your Discord community to test it, especially those with higher level upgraded operating system and better virus & malware protection software. (Meaning, if they have been just tag triggering the interface to collect more tokens and not actually using the interface, they wouldn't notice and know, and couldn't report it.)
However, thank you for your time! We will not bother you about it anymore. We will check back a few more times to see if anything has changed, and accordingly adjust our future plans.
I have reached out to the Hive Engine team to see if they know what the issue is. Again, other than the domain, I don’t have any control because they host the site. Thanks for your feedback though and have a good day.
Edit: apologies for coming off harsh.
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