Curation Markets · interactive mechanism simulation

Buyers deposit ETH into a bonding-curve contract that mints a topic token at an ever-rising price. ETH pools in a communal reserve. Holders bond tokens to curated items (stake-weighted signal) or just hold to speculate — and can burn tokens anytime to withdraw a proportional share of the reserve. Edit the parameters to see whether curation or speculation dominates the flywheel.
Buyers 0 held (spec.) Bonding curve price: 0.010 ETH Reserve pool 0.0 ETH Curated items (bonded weight) Item A Item B Item C Burn & exit 0 tokens burned withdraw pro-rata ETH
Mints
0
Reserve
0.000 ETH
Token supply
0
Mint price
0.010 ETH
Curated (bonded) share
0%
Parameters — edit me
3.0
1.4/s
70%
20%
Controls

Illustrative simulation. Models the researched Curation Markets design: continuous token minting on a rising bonding curve, a communal ETH reserve, proportional-share burn-to-exit, and stake-weighted curation across three sample items. Speculator share defaults high and exits pull from speculative holdings first, reflecting the historical finding that the curation half rarely found product-market fit. Trade sizes and timing are randomized for visualization — not live onchain data. Part of The Onchain Experiment Atlas.