I know what you mean…
How can oDoge holders claim the token is backed by an NFT that can’t be accessed and is essentially ‘burned’ and locked inside a vault ‘forever?’ The NFT can’t be used for collateral or sold so why does oDoge have any extrinsic value?
It doesn’t.
It does, however, have intrinsic value and provenance, which in my opinion, makes it worth something.
Imagine if the French Republic who owns the Mona Lisa said they were going to fractionalize the painting and offered them as coins to the public on a blockchain but said that the Louvre Museum constructed an impenetrable vault at the center of the earth where it would live and could never be accessed because it’s been sealed ‘forever.’
I believe there would still be demand to own the coins and they would have value because they represent the Mona Lisa and people would have a feeling of owning the painting even though it was inaccessible. The coins would have provenance.
One misconception about oDoge claiming the NFT can’t be moved because they’ve burned more than half the supply needed to unlock the vault is misleading to a degree.
The Emblem Vault is not impenetrable even by Emblem Vault’s own admittance on their Medium post.
- The unlocking service is centralized and can be opened with the intervention of a ‘trusted’ third party.
- The key generation is still possibly vulnerable to hacks, similar to the risks of an exchange getting hacked. Emblem Vault says that while unlikely, the risks are not zero.
Emblem Vault goes on to say that the team is exploring options to decentralize the service further and provide enhanced security but that a fully decentralized system may never be fully possible due to the nature of the technology.
You can’t rule out that in 100 years, there isn’t a decision to unlock vaults that haven’t moved in the last century or allow token holders to vote and lower the 50% required coins threshold to say 25% via a vote and code change.
In the Mona Lisa’s example, with enough will and effort, there would probably be a way to retrieve it again just like there is a possibility the Ordinal could be unlocked either through reprogramming the vault’s code or via hack.
What if one day we have super computers able to crack private keys so we all move to more secure wallet technology but all the legacy wallets would be left vulnerable? It would just be a matter of time before the Ordinal private keys could be found. Or what if in 1,000 years the BTC community voted to unlock sats that haven’t moved in more than 500 years and recycled them as miner rewards? I wouldn’t say the Ordinal is never going to be retrieved again.
I like the project. It’s creative, there is a community being built around it and it has intrinsic value and provenance.
Is it perfect? No. It has its doubts and vulnerabilities, but the vulnerabilities are very low at present day.
I never heard of Sovryn until today and I’ve been very active in the crypto space for 4 years.
I’m now very interested in Sovryn and it’s made me excited to want to use it in the future. I’m sure many people will feel the same once they understand and hear about it, but I only came here because of oDoge.
Will oDoge bring the volume of users you want? I don’t know, but Sovryn could benefit if the oDoge volumes continue.
I don’t think oDoge is a scam or pump and dump, but the coin’s market is new so it will take some time to know if the market is sustainable. In the short term, it seems the project team is well organized, transparent, has a lot of energy and serious about making this coin mainstream.
I’ve bought some oDoge, so I’m biased, but I would love to trade it on this exchange if it does become the next Mona Lisa.