Why this conversation
Explaining a self-made token honestly to a counterparty who assumes every token has a price, without sounding like you have nothing.
Dialogue
Tom: Send us the current JYVE price and a 30-day chart and we can list next week.
Jay: I can send you a number, but I'd be misrepresenting it. JYVE has no external market. Its only price is the ratio in our JYVE/jUSD pool, and jUSD is a test dollar.
Tom: So it's a testnet token?
Jay: Today, yes. It's the unit of account inside Jayverse: personas are priced in it, the exchange pool quotes it. Listing it now would put a price on something that hasn't earned one.
Tom: Then why are we talking?
Jay: Because I'd like you to be the first venue when it does. What I can offer now is read access to the pool, the bridge contracts, and a heads-up before anything goes to mainnet.
Tom: That's a slower deal than I came for.
Jay: It is, and it's the one I can stand behind. A listing we'd have to explain away later is worse for you than for me.
Key expressions
| Expression | 뜻 · 쓰이는 자리 |
|---|---|
| the current price | 현재 가격 |
| I'd be misrepresenting it | 사실을 왜곡하는 것이 된다 |
| no external market | 외부 시장이 없다 |
| the unit of account | 계산 단위 |
| put a price on something that hasn't earned one | 아직 자격 없는 것에 가격을 붙이다 |
| then why are we talking? | 그럼 왜 이야기하고 있나? |
| the first venue | 첫 거래 장소 |
| a heads-up | 사전 통지 |
| the one I can stand behind | 내가 책임질 수 있는 것 |
| explain away later | 나중에 변명으로 넘기다 |