# Token issuance

`kaal:entity:token-issuance`

**Status.** derived

This node is assembled mechanically from the 2 claims that carry the concept tag `token-issuance`. It is a roster of what the corpus says under this term. It is **not** an adjudicated definition: no single statement here has been ruled canonical, and no first-appearance call has been made. Read the claims and judge for yourself.

## Every claim under this term

2 claims across 2 works, 2018 to 2022.

**2018**

- [3249860-021](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3249860-021) [empirical/evidenced] -- Of the top 100 tokens, fifty-six held an ICO and thirty-eight did not.
  > Of the top 100 tokens, fifty-six tokens held an ICO and thirty-eight tokens did not.
  Wulf A. Kaal, Crypto Economics - The Top 100 Token Models Compared (2018). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3249860

**2022**

- [4033886-037](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/4033886-037) [mechanism/argued] -- Under a deflationary token issuance model, which caps the number of tokens ever issued, prices are expected to increase because of the fundamental scarcity of token supply.
  > With a deflationary method, prices are expected to increase due to fundamental scarcity of token supply.
  Wulf A. Kaal, Samuel Evans, Hayley Howe, Digital Asset Valuation (2022). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4033886

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