AC自曝Fantom发家史:如何借助DeFi从200万美元到15亿美元?

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Fantom的自转飞轮:从DeFi赚取利润,用于回购FTM

Fantom的自转飞轮:从DeFi赚取利润,用于回购FTM

11 月 28 日,Andre Cronje 于个人 Medium 发布了一篇新文章「Fantom:作为一家“crypto 公司”的财务内幕」,文中详述了 Fantom 基金会过往数年的财务状况,从谷底的不足 200 万美元,到巅峰的近 15 亿美元,AC 亲述了 Fantom 基金会在面对不同状况时是如何调整策略,并最终走出“财务危机”的。

文末,AC 还总结了一些其个人从 Fantom 基金会财务状况变化中得到的经验教训,或许值得每一个去中心化项目参考。

Fantom 历史财务信息

2018 年 6 月 16 日,Fantom 筹集了约 4000 万美元的资金。资金大多都是 ETH,筹资时期的价格约在 450 - 700 美元。

2018 年 12 月,Fantom 以明显低于筹款时的价格将这些 ETH 都卖成了美元,财库账上只剩下了不到 500 万美元。

这期间主要的开支包括超 300 万美元的交易所上币费,超 50 万美元的 KOL 宣传佣金及赞助费用。至此,Fantom 决定再也不在交易所、KOL 身上花钱了。我们开始变得非常节俭,营销预算完全暂停,只雇佣必要的员工,C 级员工一律减薪,有的甚至是免费打工……我们把每年的支出预算降到了 50 万美元以下,如此一来还能撑大概 4 年时间。

2019 年 5 月 7 日,Fantom 财库账上的非 FTM 资产已不足 200 万美元,1 亿 FTM 的价值也仅剩约 90 万美元。

我们开始定期出售 FTM,为计划外开支准备更多资金。

2020 年 2 月 2 日,Fantom 财库账上的非 FTM 资产约为 300 多万美元,4500 万 FTM 价值约 40 万美元。

这之后,Fantom 开始积极参与 DeFi,利用利润去回购 FTM。

2020 年 2 月 28 日,我们的目标是在年底前将财库账上的资金增长到 800 万美元,这可以帮助我们把预算提高至每年 150 万美元,我们需要扩大规模。

2020 年 3 月,当时我们的年支出约为 60 万美元,与此同时我们手中那 300 万美元的年收益约为 20%,这意味着每年也能赚 60 万美元。我们很兴奋,开始正式考虑扩大规模。

2020 年 6 月,COMP 流动性挖矿启动。当前我们通过 sUSD 每周可以挖 20320 美元,通过 COMP 每周可以挖 39071 美元。财库账上的资金已从 200 万美元左右增长到了 600 万美元(包括 FTM)。

2020 年 7 月 12 日,我们已从市场回购了 57933544 枚 FTM。账上资金已达到了 800万美元,收入主要来自 COMP 和 SNX 的流动性挖矿(Odaily 星球日报:挖矿养活团队,就问服不服)。

2020 年 7 月 13 日,我们手中的 FTM 持仓已达到了 207378636 FTM,这意味着我们已回购了超 1.5 亿 FTM。

2020 年 8 月 20 日,财库资金已达到了 1800 万美元(包括 FTM),其中稳定币1100 万美元,FTM 700 万美元。这时一家 RPC 服务商向我们要价 800 万美元来进行集成,我们拒绝了。

2020 年 10 月 30 日,我们账上已有了 27114975 美元,如果算上锁仓代币则已达到了 39687104 美元,基本回到了我们募资初期的状况。

2021 年 1 月 1 日,财库资金达到了 51684378 美元(包括 FTM),年收入则已达到了 2009849 美元。

2021 年 2 月 2 日,财库资金达到了 146792798 美元,其中稳定币约 2000 万美元,FTM 约 5000 万美元,CRV 约 5000 万美元。

2021 年 2 月 15 日,我们每周的收入已超过了 100 万美元。

2021 年 2 月 23 日,我们宣布以 0.428831 美元的均价向 Alameda 出售 8150 万 FTM,合计34949726.5 美元。

2021 年 2 月 24 日,我们又以 500 万美元的总价向 Blocktower 出售了10384165 FTM。

2021 年 5 月 3 日,包括 FTM 在内我们的财库资金已达到了 1478471641 美元(你没看错,接近15 亿美元),流动资金也有 3 亿美元。我们进一步扩大规模,并提高了预算。

2021 年 9 月 30 日,不计算 FTM ,我们账上的资金为 2.63 亿美元。

2022年1月5日,Alameda 请求进一步合作,我们拒绝了。

2022年1月14日,一家交易所在上币时的要求 3亿美元的上币费,我们拒绝了。

2022年5月,财库的 BOO、CRV、YFI、CVX 和 ETH 持仓损失了约 5000万美元,但我们还有 1 亿美元的稳定币。

2022年10月,一家 NFT 交易所要求 1亿美元的部署费,我们也拒绝了。

2022年11月,我们现在拥有超过4.5亿枚 FTM、1亿美元稳定币、1亿美元加密资产、5000万美元非加密资产。我们的薪资开销约为每年 700 万美元,财库资金足以我们在不动用 FTM 的情况下支撑 30年。

财库收入构成

验证节点收入 —— Fantom 自己运行着 9 个验证节点,总计投入 60708615 枚 FTM,这意味着我们每年可获得 4182823 枚 FTM。

委托人收入 —— Fantom 将大约 6000 万枚 FTM 委托给了网络上的验证节点们,这每年可以给我们带来约 410 万枚 FTM 的收入。

网络收入 —— Fantom 生态系统赚取所有交易费用的 10%。以每日 30000 FTM 的平均交易费用计算,我们每年可赚取 100 万美元,每笔交易的平均费用则低于 0.005 美元。

DeFi 收入 —— Fantom 通过在自己以及其他生态内的 DeFi 操作每年可赚取约 598 万美元(Odaily 星球日报:占总收入一大半,看看什么才叫 DeFi 大师……)。

Fantom 目前年收入超过 1000 万美元,这还不包括任何投资收益。

我们的现金流为正。我们仍在继续扩大规模。

一些经验教训

永远不要试图在“整合”、“上所”、“合作”等数字方面与竞争对手拼面子。与大多数竞争对手不同,Fantom 基金会拥有的 FTM 相对较少,其他一些 Layer1 可能拥有 50% - 80% 的代币供应,但 Fantom 在发行之初的份额占比还不到 3%,而现在我们的持仓比例已超过了 14%。我们更喜欢购买我们的代币,我们不会为了所谓“合作伙伴”去出售我们的代币。

“区块链公司”并不赚钱,运行验证节点并不是 Fantom 基金会的工作,我们这么做只是是为了支持我们所相信的网络,并为此赚取费用。然而,这并不是我们的核心业务,Fantom 的核心业务一直都是构建最具可扩展性、最健壮的 Layer1。

网络收入是 Fantom 区别于其他项目的一个点,但这也不是为基金会所设计的,这是所有在 Fantom 上部署的 Dapps 的平台收入,任何一个在 Fantom 上部署的 Dapp 都可以获得这部分收益。虽然 Fantom 基金会成功实践了去中心化的财库管理,但这也不是我们的核心业务。

实际上,“区块链公司”一般只能通过出售代币赚钱,这样的模型在发展上是有限的。

我们花了很多时间比较有限模型和无限模型。我们会问自己“某项合作在 10 年的周期里究竟会产生什么样的影响”,也会问自己“我们如何维持这一合作 10 年之久”,还会问自己“如果我们为某项合作买了单,他们会不会不久就部署到了其他链上”,我们会基于这些问题的答案做出决定。

除了以太坊之外,Fantom 是最古老的非分叉 Layer1,拥有着真正的 TVL。我们已经运营了 4 年多,我们计划继续运营至少 30 年,你可以随时跟踪我们的技术进展及交付进度。

如果你全部的收入模式都是出售代币,那么你就是在伤害你自己、你的区块链和你的支持者。

如果 DeFi 不存在,我们可能无法坚持到今天。我相信很多公司都是如此。

crypto已死,crypto长存。

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