TARI - Tari is a new L1 proof-of-work blockchain that is launching in April of 2025. The Tari website can be found here for documentation and more information-
I am an angel investor in tari and extremely bullish on it because of it’s money-ness
Unique money-ness aspects
Privacy
Tari is, by default, a private cryptocurrency where people cannot see the wallet balance or transactions of other wallets unless those wallets are “opted in” to share.
This is a significant factor in money-ness as it allows for privatized liquidity on-ramping and off-ramping- a significant advancement in safety for those looking to store large sums of liquidity
It also creates a more robust ecosystem that is less prone to censorship, which is a massive boost to the money-ness of Tari during times of capital flight/geopolitical risk
Frictionless onboarding
Most cryptocurrencies still experience difficulty in onboarding new users and new liquidity, as they do not function like older used systems of liquidity. Tari has a pc/mac app, and soon mobile app, where it is an “all-in-one” hub. The miner, wallet, and chain platform is all rolled up into a single launcher, and people can begin acquiring tari through mining with just 3 clicks.
Ease of acquisition- universality of “winning”
Tari has not officially launched yet, but on testnet their innovative “p2pool” system is operating at 70% daily rewards for miners. Typically with other POW blockchains, mining a block results in a massive reward, but it is incredibly hard to do, and most smaller-scale miners can go months, even years without mining a single block. Tari has a built in mining-pool system that results in 70%+ (with goal of it being 90%+) of miners receiving daily rewards.
This is a massive element of “money-ness” as removes the barrier for people to get immediately involved in the financial ecosystem. “Earning” or “acquiring” money is a key pillar of money-ness, and with Tari anyone can download the launcher and acquire tari (for the cost of electricity alone) likely within 1 day of mining.
POW value floor
Tari is similar in BTC in that mining emissions to miners decay exponentially over time, which creates a rising “floor” price for mining (cost to run a mining operation/coins received for mining). This creates a value “floor” for Tari that goes up over time both as the number of miners increases and as time goes on. This can result in a flywheel effect- more miners = higher value floor of mining tari = price of tari goes up = more miners switch to mining tari.
Here is a link to the Tari mining emission schedule-
Note- instead of the 4 year halving schedule btc has, the Tari block rewards decrease steadily over time block-by-block through an exponential decay function, halving approximately every three years
Limited supply
Tari incorporates a model where, in the near future, all activity on their connected L2 results in a small % of Tari being burned. This will offset Tari mining inflation, and even lead to deflation in the future when fee burning overtakes mining emissions (which are exponentially decaying). This is far superior in moneyness to Eth or Solana, where increased dapp activity leads to more eth/sol being sold for other liquidity solutions (resulting in sell pressure). By burning fees via underlying token instead of rewarding them to others to sell, tari creates a unique scarcity model (which increases the value of its money-ness)
See Tari turbine model docs here- https://rfc.tari.com/RFC-0320_TurbineModel
Exposure and risk management plan for trading
I am an angel investor, so I already have significant exposure to tari and don’t plan on trading it on the open market. However, for those who don’t have exposure yet, here is how I would trade it-
NOW/short-term
Immediately download tari universe and begin mining testnet Tari. You will get an airdrop when mainnet launches in April, and you will be already setup to mine mainnet tari on launch. This is completely risk-free and only costs electricity
Medium term
Look for arbitrage opportunities between the cost-to-mine and the market price. If cost-to-mine is lower, then purchase virtual gpu compute and run tari mining on the virtual operating environments until price is even
Buy any prolonged dips of more than -70%, as they will prove great entries if the tari bull thesis proves true
Look to get increased exposure prior to the official L2 launch- there will likely be significant fee-burn after the L2 launch, which could lead to a positive price flywheel effect
(though be wary of unlocks that are likely to go into effect around the same time)
Long term
Look to accumulate Tari during bear market downswings, as they could prove to be excellent buying opportunities if the tari bull thesis proves true