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📉 Lowering prices 🔥 Decreasing supply
deflationary

deflationary

8.2
Made so fewer tokens exist over time
  • adjective
  • /dɪˈfleɪʃənɛri/
  • Jargon
translation icon : deflacionario
  • The deflationary nature of this token incentivizes users to hold rather than spend, anticipating future value gains.

And it's basically a way to make the network slightly more deflationary than it would be without those fees.

Examples

  • So I do have a longer term concern that token values with the exception of purely deflationary tokens are going to come under pressure.

  • And it's basically a way to make the network slightly more deflationary than it would be without those fees.

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  • I don't think it's a problem that people are paid in a deflationary currency.

  • This cryptocurrency has a deflationary model, which means its total supply will decrease over time to create scarcity.

  • Investors value deflationary tokens because they are designed to become rarer, potentially increasing in worth.

Antonyms

inflationary
20 6.3

A policy or action that makes most prices rise

Compounds

deflationary spiral
  • Specialized
1 9.5

A situation when falling prices and wages cause more falls and make the economy worse

How Deflationary

deflationary
  • Jargon
8.2
disinflationary
  • Specialized
1 8.3
inflationary
20 6.3

Surface Forms

deflationary positive

Morphology

deflationary = deflation (transparent) = deflation + ary

Formed from 'deflation' + '-ary'; the crypto sense is a domain-specific extension but remains clearly derived from the notion of decreasing supply/prices.

Etymology

The word deflationary comes from de- ('down') and the same root as inflate ('to fill with air'), so it means 'make less'. In crypto, a deflationary token is made so the total number becomes smaller over time, often by 'burning' tokens, which makes them rarer.