Four Tokens Implementing Bitcoin´s Economic Principles on Ethereum, Also Traded on Polygon for Very Low Fees.
Let's start by explaining this statement. You can listen Seasonal Tokens creator explaining the project in this interview with Jane King from the NASDAQ MarketSite in Times Square.
The four tokens: Spring, Summer, Autumn, and Winter, are smart contracts running on the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM). These contracts mint tokens into circulation and track ownership of the digital assets.
Because they use the Ethereum blockchain as their ledger, they are as secure and decentralized as Ethereum itself.
Each token implements Bitcoin's economic principles that made it very successful as a store of value:
Transactions on Ethereum require network fees, which can sometimes be expensive. Layer 2 networks, like Polygon, reduce those costs and let you interact with tokens at very low fees. Since Seasonal Tokens can involve many transactions, Polygon helps keep the system practical and affordable.
The four token smart contracts are independent, they don't interact with each other. But a decentralized, autonomous economy emerges from the mining supply schedules, hard coded in the smart contracts.
Traders take advantage from the seasonality in the token prices, increasing the total number of tokens they own.
Although the dollar prices of the tokens can´t be controlled, having more tokens is better than just buying and holding, hoping for the dollar prices to rise.
Mining Supply Schedule:
Every 3 years the mining supply is cut in half. But not all tokens at the same time, the mining supply schedule is hard coded in the smart contracts so that every nine months the mining supply of the token produced at the fastest rate is cut in half.
This mining supply schedule produces predictable oscillations in the relative prices of the four tokens:
A Decentralized Enterprise:
Seasonal Tokens are a decentralized enterprise: a self-running on-chain economy whose purpose is to create digital commodities that can grow into a long-term store of value. There is no company behind the system. The rules live in smart contracts, and the marketplace is decentralized. What makes it an “enterprise” is that real coordination happens anyway — not through management, but through economic incentives.
The "ecosystem" is composed by the four token smart contracts operating on the Ethereum and Polygon blockchains, the decentralized exchanges, and the people (and bots) interacting with the contracts.
People can also team up in mining pools to mine more efficiently, and Farms for providing liquidity to decentralized markets.
The system doesn't need central coordination to work. All this activity is conducted as long as there is an economic advantage in doing so.
The Ecosystem
Mined in Ethereum
Security and Decentralization are handled by the Ethereum Network.
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Bridged to Polygon
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Seasonal Trading
Increase your Token holdings using the predictable price oscillations.
Arbitrage
Prices in Polygon and Ethereum may differ, move tokens cross chains for profit.
Farming
Seasonal Tokens Farms reward Liquidity Providers.
Emergent Collaboration: Miners and Traders
Seasonal Tokens create a unique dynamic between miners and traders:
Miners face halving events that double production costs. Instead of shutting down, they shift to mining other tokens.
Traders invest in the cheapest token (now produced at the slowest rate after the halving, anticipating that scarcity will rise it's price.
This interaction reduces supply, increases demand, and pushes prices upward, restoring mining profitability.
It forms a self-sustaining cycle where both miners and traders benefit, strengthening the ecosystem.