Research
Curated archive of Ampleforth research articles, videos, podcasts, and analysis from community experts, academics, and protocol contributors.
Note: Content listed on this page represents a variety of perspectives from across the AMPL ecosystem. Inclusion here does not constitute endorsement by AMPLtools. Our mission is to reduce information asymmetry by centralizing scattered resources—not to validate any particular viewpoint. We encourage critical thinking and welcome diverse analysis, including perspectives that challenge prevailing narratives.
From Fiat to Freedom: How Ampleforth Redefines Money
No boardroom meetings, no printing press, no politicians, just the law of supply and demand, and code. Imagine for a while, that you
Latest Research
The Ampleforth Whitepaper (2019)
The natural question to ask is: can a synthetic commodity have low correlation with both Bitcoin and traditional asset groups? In this paper, we 1) introduce Ampleforth: a new synthetic commodity and...
The Original Ampleforth Red Book
The Ampleforth Red Book is a sequenced list of foundational reading material on the Ampleforth protocol, and its units (Amples). Due their unorthodox nature, we felt it made sense to present a comprehensive view of what Amples are, how they can be traded, and...
Professor Eleanor Blackstone Prompt
A red-team research tool featuring Prof. Eleanor Blackstone—an AI persona designed to stress-test crypto and DeFi arguments with rigorous academic skepticism. Use this prompt to identify logical vulnerabilities and strengthen your claims before they face real critics....
Why $AMPL Might Be The Most Honest Stablecoin You've Never Used
What if we built a unit of account that's truly native to crypto, one that adjusts to market reality instead of fighting it? The protocol doesn't promise stability every single day, it promises equilibrium over time, with...
wAMPL: Unlocking AMPL's DeFi Potential
wAMPL elegantly solves AMPL's composability challenge by transforming supply volatility back into price volatility, enabling the elastic supply token to...
From Fiat to Freedom: How Ampleforth Redefines Money
No boardroom meetings, no printing press, no politicians, just the law of supply and demand, and code. Imagine for a while, that you...
Low Volatility Assets: A Better Balance
LVAs represent a revolutionary improvement - or rather, enhancement - to SAA frameworks by providing commodity-money exposure without traditional volatility constraints. This innovation enables...
High Volatility < LOW Volatility > No Volatility: Down the Middle Solves the Riddle
For example, below we can see how an LVA like SPOT (world’s first LVA - a low volatility derivative of AMPL) can complement a portfolio with BTC holdings. Though BTC offers...
After the Great Inflation: Could SPOT Redefine Reserve Stability in a Fragmenting World?
In other words, SPOT could offer the first natively algorithmic, inflation-aware reserve asset, one that responds automatically to...
Ampleforth Unveiled: How System Thinking Unlocks Hidden Leverage in Crypto's Most Intriguing Experiment
Ampleforth (AMPL) isn't a stablecoin. It's a complex adaptive system — an elastic, rebase-driven base-money for DeFi. Understanding its feedback loops, structural shifts, and narrative dynamics reveals......
Deep Dive into Ampleforth's Bill Broker AMM
Bill Broker is a custom Automated Market Maker (AMM) designed to provide SPOT liquidity using a "buy low, sell high" strategy. This approach is......
SPOT: Flatcoin That Bends But Never Breaks
While other cryptocurrencies might tumble head over heels when markets get crazy, SPOT does something unique — it bends with the pressure but doesn't break....
The Pizza That Grows When You’re Hungry: A Beginner's Guide to AMPL Coin
This is the first article in our series where we'll break down these fascinating protocols (AMPL, SPOT) into bite-sized, easily digestible pieces...
How Spot v2 Makes Arbitrage More Efficient
The introduction of Swaps into the Spot system not only has the potential to solve the main scaling problem hampering existing decentralized stablecoins, it also has the ability to......
SPOT v2 — The Path to Counter Cyclical Demand
Plainly stated, the swapping mechanic allows rational acting counter cyclical demand to enter the AMPL ecosystem....
About SPOT
SPOT a very first proof that blockchain technology can been used to solve a problem of substance, that otherwise truly could not be solved — in...
Can be heard, felt and seen
In contrast to Bitcoin and Ethereum, there is no Ampleforth Network. The Ampleforth Protocol is blockchain agnostic. Guided by...
Navigating the U.S. Debt Ceiling Crisis: A Deeper Look at SPOT as a Safe Haven
SPOT stands not just as a token but symbolizes a fortress of financial security that can potentially withstand the headwinds of a volatile economic...
Ampleforth Removes Upgradeability, Decentralizes into Community
Ampleforth has lifted upgradeability from the protocol's token contract, taking another step towards full decentralization. The protocol is now censorship-resistant and...
How Ampleforth Fills A Gap In DeFi With Evan Kuo | 02-dec-2021
Frens Validator Crypto Podcast...
Amplcast's Spotify
AmplCast is a community run podcast, focused around Ampleforth's growing ecosystem and community...
AMPLitheater slide deck 1.12.22
Ampleforth Office Hours...
Introducing wAMPL
Wrapped AMPL broadens access to AMPL and the Ampleforth ecosystem by introducing a non-rebasins wrapper...
How to use the Ample Bridge!
This time we will be covering the Ampleforth Bridge...
Ampleforth - A Rebasing Cryptocurrency
The ample is a cryptocurrency and financial building block...
Deep Dive — Borrowing Demand on Aave — Stables, Other Crypto's and $AMPL
And since the incentives that drive $AMPL's borrowing and lending demand are baked into its dynamic but...
Ampleforth Geyser v2
This walkthrough aims to serve as a guide towards migrating all funds from Geyser v1 -> Geyser v2....
Quick Start AMPLGeyser Guide: Universal Vault NFT
A quick guide to get you subscribed into the new Geyser v2 pool...
5 Lessons Learned in Liquidity Mining
The first version of Geyser marked a turning point for the Ampleforth project and placed it at the top of the uniswap liquidity charts throughout defi summer 2020...
Elastic Ecosystem 2.5: Why Can ButtonZero, a Web 3.0 Borrowing Platform, Synthesize AMPL with Double Yields?
As the latest revolutionary borrowing platform launched by Buttonwood Protocol, ButtonZero's core contract 'Tranche' is also used by Ampleforth protocol as a building block of SPOT. Now let's...
Elastic Finance: Definition, Use Cases and Framework by AmpleSense DAO
Elastic finance (EeFi) offers an exciting monetary and technological innovation, the likes of which has not been seen in the cryptocurrency market in many years. The emerging elastic finance sub-sector – led by Ampleforth...
How SPOT By Ampleforth Could Become Digital Cash To Bitcoin's Digital Gold
SPOT's white paper describes senior tranches as being 'insulated from, but not immune to' the volatility of the underlying AMPL. Thus...
Ampleforth aims to be a crypto-native unit of account
Ampleforth will soon release a new token called spot (SPOT), a derivative of ampleforth, that should...
About the SPOT Perpetual Note
SPOT is a perpetual note backed by fully collateralized AMPL derivatives. SPOT can fulfill many properties of...
Wrapped $AMPL 'wAMPL' 101
According to Kuo, wrapped $AMPL is something that he and the team are excited about because of its potential to broaden platform access significantly with respect to integrations...
AMPL — as a psychological gauge
AMPL rebasing producing changes in the personal quantity of users causes a similar effect to the creation of brain synapses after...
AMPL — Rebasing
In moments of positive rebasing, AMPL provides its holders with the same illusion caused by collecting rents or receiving...
Property-based Testing Ampleforth
Property-based testing describes a testing technique in which not state transitions are tested, but rather properties of states itself...
Ampleforth is Hayek Money
Good money should provide stable prices to best perform its role as unit of account...
Ampleforth Team to Introduce World's First Truly Decentralized Stablecoin
All of the existing stablecoins in the market currently rely on some form of centralized collateral to operate. This is not the case with AMPL...
If Satoshi made bitcoin today
What if you can forecast how Satoshi would have made bitcoin if he made it in todays world, reading his own original thoughts in his posts?...
AMPL Bridge Primer
On every new rebase, the updated total supply is reported to the other satellite chains through the bridge. The satellite...
Non-Technical $AMPL Guide for Beginners
$AMPL is not a stablecoin because its price is not stable. Instead, it fluctuates frequently around the target price of...
How Ampleforth Uses Chainlink to Decentralize Its Rebasing Mechanism
AMPL is the first rebasing currency and a key DeFi building block for denominating stable contracts. The AMPL protocol adjusts total supply daily based on...
AMPL Negative Rebase is No Longer a Worry if You Realize This One Thing
People couldn't wrap their heads around the fact that if they buy $AMPL and a negative rebase occurs, they could have fewer Amples valued at a lower price the next day. Back in the days...
AMPL Owns One Hour of the Day
Every day since June 2019, traders across the entire globe have been looking at this dashboard during a specific hour. Why?...
AAVE x AMPL a Match Made in Heaven
Ampleforth's rebasing asset, $AMPL is the first elastic supply asset, which is non-dilutive and scalable for all of crypto & DeFi's needs. And...
Gauntlet Report: Protocol and Trading Strategy Assessment
Ampleforth is a new type of digital asset, the goal of which is to create a synthetic commodity money that exhibits uncorrelated returns within the cryptocurrency space. Since token price is the result of...
On Quantitative Easing Pt. 2: The Tale of Ampleland
The AMPL Protocol uses an Oracle to aggregate 24 hour volume weighted price of Ample and then will automatically adjust supply in response to...
The Letter and Spirit of Composability
Ampleforth is trying to reinvent finance and that doesn't happen by...
Token Design as Optimization Design: Ocean and Ampleforth protocol
The Ampleforth protocol is technically a 'non-dilutive, smart-commodity money with near perfect elasticity'. Ampleforth has a token design which...
Stable Contracts with AMPL Cryptocurrency has Varying Token Supply Daily
The Ampleforth Protocol is a lot like Bitcoin, but different in that it is a financial building block and is used in stable contracts. It is algorithmic and uncollateralized. AMPL can be used to...
The Rise and Fall (and Rise and Fall) of Ampleforth — Part II
Part I covers Ampleforth's design and pricing mechanics. Part II (below) covers Ampleforth's psychology and...
The Rise and Fall (and Rise and Fall) of Ampleforth — Part I
We've been following Ampleforth for a long time so we wrote this two-part article as an explainer and a framework for thinking about how it may...