Most regular Hive users are probably aware of HBD stabililzer by now. It's a DAO funded proposal which sells HBD (when its value is above $1) and buys HIVE; the aims being to help move the HBD price back towards $1, to help the Hive price go up, and to make some profits for the DAO.
In addition to the funding from the proposal rewards there has been some additional funding generated from post beneficiary rewards. There is now a supplementary DAO proposal (I assume this will remove the need for the posts) which you can read about here:
@smooth/supplemental-funding-2-for-hbd-stabililzer
There are a few figures included in the new proposal post, for example the daily amount of Hive being purchased. I thought it would be interesting to look at these figures in more detail. It's something that's easy to do with HeyStack!
HeyStack!
For those who haven't heard of it before, HeyStack is a Hive-orientated crypto portfolio tracker project. You can use it to look at your own Hive journey, or to track your whole crypto portfolio using Hive data and exchange data.
The briefest of instructions if you want to do this kind of thing yourself.
Steps required to look at the @hbdstabilizer account (see the links for details):
(1) Add the hbdstabilizer wallet.
(2) Load the data.
@miniature-tiger/heystack-launch
(3) Use the journey page for charts.
(4) Export the data from the wallets page if you want more detail.
@miniature-tiger/heystack-launch-your-own-hive-journey
FUNDING
Funding rewards in HBD: coin amount on upper, USD on lower
Current funding is 300 HBD per hour, generated by a 100 HBD proposal and a 200 HBD proposal. This makes 7,200 HBD per day in total. It looks like there was a drop at the start of March to 4,800 HBD per day. I assume the 100 HBD proposal fell below the threshold for funding over this period.
TRADES OF HBD TO HIVE
Trades of HBD (pink) to Hive (umber): USD on upper, coin amount on lower
The daily funding is traded from HBD (shown as negative) to Hive on the internal market.
The upper chart USD values are broadly equal between HBD and Hive (as would be expected aside from some minor distortion from using end of day prices in the charts).
The lower chart shows that 20k - 25k HIVE is currently being purchased each day.
I make it 641k Hive purchased so far for 184k HBD!
TRANSFERS BACK TO THE DAO
Upper chart: Trades - as lower chart above
Lower chart: Transfers of HBD (pink) and Hive (umber)
The lower chart shows the transfers of HBD and Hive (the timescale is messed up by one earlier unrelated transfer). It's mainly Hive being transferred back to the DAO with some HBD going back untraded.
From the three sets of charts above you can follow the flow of money from the funding, through the trades, and transferred back to the DAO.
From the export (see later) I make it:
- 202k HBD funding
- 18K HBD not traded and transferred back to the DAO.
- 641k Hive purchased for 184k HBD.
- 641k Hive transferred to the DAO.
BENEFICIARY REWARDS
Beneficiary rewards: coin amount on upper, USD on lower
Pretty small in the overall scheme of things. The two recent posts have not worked through yet. The large reward at the start is from the original proposal design post.
ACCOUNT BALANCES
Account balances - daily at end of day: coin amount on upper, USD on lower
Balances are mainly at 0. A few spikes where the last set of funding / trades for the day have not completely cleared at day's end so are captured by the daily chart.
The Hive Power (red) balance is from the post beneficiary rewards. It's on power down with transfer to the DAO (you can just about see the dips on the upper chart).
TRADE PRICES
If you are interested in more of the detail you can export all the Hive transactions from HeyStack to a spreadsheet. I've used this approach to look at the internal market trade prices for the trades made:
Trade prices (HBD divided by Hive) - all dates.
All the trades. The outliers will be distortions from minimal trades.
Trade prices (HBD divided by Hive) - for yesterday (22 March).
Here you can see the twenty-four sets of trades going through for yesterday; one set just after each hour. The prices obtained are pretty tightly bunched. It's Hive vs HBD (greater than $1) rather than Hive vs USD if you were wondering about the price levels.
That's it for the data.
SOME GENERAL RANDOM AND UNRELATED THOUGHTS ON HDB STABILISATION
What about using the DAO as a stabilisation fund?
Rather than individual proposals and posts, would it be possible / a good idea to use the DAO fund for HBD stabilisation?
Currently there is 77m Hive (and 1.5m HBD) in the Hive DAO. This compares to 300 HBD per day (soon to be 700 HBD) from the HBD stabililzer.
When HBD is above $1 the DAO could be coded to use the same approach as under the current proposals, just with a greater volume / speed. Witness parameters could be applied to control the tempo.
However, the profits generated by such an approach would not be consequence free. Significantly increased printing of HBD risks running us up against the maximum debt (HBD) to ownership (Hive) limit, with a greater potential for an HBD haircut in future if the market falls.
How to solve the HBD haircut issue?
It is very difficult to get out of an HBD haircut situation once we are in it. HBD conversion is not profitable and results in increased selling of Hive, lowering the Hive price and potentially exacerbating the problem.
Probably there should be more focus on avoiding getting into the HBD haircut situation in the first place, i.e.
(a) Stricter limits on HBD printing so that an x% (50%?) market fall would still not bring us to the debt-to-ownership limits.
(b) Some form of incentive to convert/burn/remove HBD when the above pre-fall limits are close to being reached.
Could the DAO use Hive to buy up HBD from the market when HBD is at $1?
Moving HBD into the DAO removes it from the debt-to-ownership ratio (since HBD in the DAO is not included). As an addition the HBD could be converted to Hive once purchased to complete the circuit (if more HBD is purchased than is needed for proposals).
Essentially this manages the risk of the HBD haircut but does bring sell pressure to Hive. It's perhaps a question of bringing that sell pressure in good market conditions, i.e. when Hive is well above its long term average price. Probably best to get it done today.
Other random ideas
In a haircut situation:
- Use a (sizeable?) proportion of the existing Hive inflation to buy HBD. And burn it.
- Allow people to remove HBD from circulation by locking it up in a savings account with a fixed HBD interest rate for a fixed period of time.
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