Bancor Protocol - Frequently Asked Questions Guide (Blockchain Technology). Bancor protocol is a cryptocurrency based on the Ethereum Blockchain using tokens as smart contracts for peer to peer commerce. See video summary on http://bancor.network and Bernard Lietaer's video summary here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nW51ci2u0RY and here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NvrvBTuKyrA
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1. Bancor Protocol F.A.Q.
BACKGROUND INFORMATION: KEY CONCEPTS 3
What is the long tail and how does it relate to cryptocurrencies? 3
What is the ‘Double Coincidence of Wants Problem’? 3
Why is there a Double Coincidence of Wants Problem in Asset Exchange? 3
What are Smart Contracts and why are they significant? 4
GENERAL OVERVIEW 4
What is Bancor? 4
What is the problem Bancor is solving? 5
What is a smart token? And how is it different from a regular ERC20 token created on
Ethereum? 5
What are some of the use cases for smart tokens? 6
Who’s behind Bancor? 7
Where is your team is based? Have you built any other projects in this space? 8
ABOUT THE BANCOR PROTOCOL 9
How does the asynchronous price discovery work? 9
How is a smart token’s price calculated? What is a CRR? 9
What happens if a user tries to instantly liquidate a percentage of the smart token supply that
is larger than the CRR? 10
Does the Bancor protocol price discovery mechanism add to the price volatility, compared to
crypto-exchanges? 11
COMMON QUESTIONS 11
How is the Bancor protocol different than how cryptocurrencies are exchanged today? 11
How can existing small market-cap tokens benefit from Bancor? 11
Is Bancor for developers only, or for end-users as well? 11
Why would a company doing a crowdsale devote a portion of their proceeds to creating the
reserve for a smart token, instead of keeping all the funds for themselves? 12
How can the Bancor protocol be used for creating something that works like a decentralized
shapeshift for all currencies (aka how do token changers work?) 13
How can the Bancor protocol be used for creating decentralized and trustless token baskets
(aka ETFs)? 13
How can existing tokens benefit from the Bancor Protocol? 14
Can smart tokens be traded on crypto-exchanges? 14
Do you have plans to support non ERC20 tokens such as BTC, XMR, etc? Could the Bancor
protocol be used across different blockchains? 14
2. THE BANCOR NETWORK TOKEN 14
What is the BANCOR network token? 14
Why not just use Ether as the network token? / Couldn’t someone just fork the Bancor
protocol and use a different network token? 15
FREQUENT MISCONCEPTIONS 16
Isn’t Bancor just a decentralized exchange? 16
If people start creating new tokens with less than 100% CRR isn’t this like allowing anyone to
create their own money? Isn’t that a problem? 16
How can the market-cap of a smart token be higher than the total value of the reserves? 17
I’ve heard about tokens which are backed using a 150% or even 200% reserve, how could a
10% reserve be enough? 17
Using a new model for price discovery sounds risky. Why do you think it will work? 18
ETHEREUM AND OTHER BLOCKCHAINS 18
Are there any technical limitations for using Ethereum? 18
Doesn’t the DAO hack mean Ethereum is not secure? 18
COMPARING BANCOR TO OTHER TECHNOLOGIES 19
How does Bancor compare to 0x? 19
How does Bancor compare to Makerdao? 19
How does Bancor compare to Shapeshift? 19
How does Bancor compare to Melonport? 19
How does Bancor compare to EtherSwap / CryptoDeriviatives? 20
How does Bancor compare to Cosmos/Polkadot? 20
MISCELLANEOUS 20
What are edge cases where runs on the bank can happen to smart tokens? Are there any
protections against this? 20
Why did you name the project Bancor? 21
How will the market cap of the BANCOR token be measured/increase? 21
Why wouldn’t token creators just use exchanges instead of allocating valuable funds to a
reserve? 21
GLOSSARY OF TERMS 22
BACKGROUND INFORMATION: KEY CONCEPTS
● What is the long tail and how does it relate to cryptocurrencies?
In business, the ‘long tail’ describes content and products in low demand or with low
sales/view volume that, collectively, make up a market share exceeding that of the current
top performers combined.