3 Under-the-Radar Product Trends for 2020

Here are three under-the-radar product trends that I believe will break out meaningfully in 2020.

A bonding curve is a smart contract that mints and burns tokens.

A mathematical formula determines the relationship between the price of the token and the token supply.

Buying into the bonding curve pushes the token price higher along the curve, and vice-versa is true for selling into the bonding curve.

There's always liquidity for the token since the counterparty is the smart contract rather than another buyer or seller, so bonding curves prevent liquidity from getting fragmented across different exchanges in a multi-token economy.

Bonding curve tokens aren't transferable so they work very nicely as DAO tokens.

Buying into the bonding curve is like buying a membership for exclusive rights such as earning fees from some product's usage.

The fees can go to buying into the bonding curve, pushing the token price up and causing the token holders to directly capture value from the product's usage.

Many projects in 2019 - Fairmint, Forte, Nexus Mutual, Uniswap, Cheeze Wizards and others - are using bonding curves and I expect to see more experimentation with new bonding curve models in 2020.

A lot of great UI/UX research has been done over the past year to improve the dApp user experience and will get implemented in wallets throughout 2020.