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$AMPL, $stAMPL, and the powers that create stAMPL and SPOT are all part of the Ampleforth ecosystem as distinct but deeply interconnected tokens. Each offers its properties, utilities, and exposure to volatility within Ampleforth’s larger decentralized framework. Of course, the foundation is AMPL: a decentralized unit of account token that makes it possible to create new derivatives, such as stAMPL and SPOT. But how does this dynamic work? The most critical piece of infrastructure in the ecosystem is the Rotation Vault. The Vault is what powers the creation of stAMPL and SPOT via AMPL deposits and a process called tranching. When AMPL is deposited into the Vault, it splits the AMPL into the two new tokens. SPOT is the “senior” (safe) tranche, a decentralized, low-volatility asset (LVA). At the same time, stAMPL is the “junior” (riskier) tranche, designed for risk-tolerant investors seeking more exposure to AMPL’s volatility. So, what happens after these derivatives are created? How do they all fit together? When users deposit AMPL into the Rotation Vault, their deposit is automatically divided between SPOT and stAMPL. SPOT holders effectively trade away exposure to the high volatility inherent in AMPL’s rebasing mechanism. In exchange, they obtain lower-volatility price behavior, which is attractive to conservative investors and treasury managers. Conversely, stAMPL holders accept all volatility foregone by SPOT holders, making stAMPL a high-risk, high-reward derivative asset. stAMPL holders receive amplified exposure to AMPL's daily rebases (generally around 1.1x to 1.2x standard AMPL rebase movements), enabling them to capture a premium during positive rebases. The premium emerges from the transfer of volatility exposure from SPOT holders to stAMPL holders. The critical mechanism facilitating this value transfer is known as the Funding Rate (formerly "Enrichment Rate"). The Funding Rate dynamically redistributes value between SPOT and stAMPL holders, incentivizing equilibrium in the system: Positive Funding Rate: This occurs primarily during bullish market phases, rewarding SPOT holders by transferring value from stAMPL holders, thereby reinforcing SPOT's promise of low volatility. Negative Funding Rate: This occurs during bearish or contractionary periods, subsidizing stAMPL holders to compensate them for absorbing greater volatility risk, thereby ensuring ongoing attractiveness to volatility-seeking participants. With the recent SPOT v5 upgrade, the Funding Rate now runs continuously and independently from weekly tranche rotations, ensuring uninterrupted incentives regardless of market conditions or tranche rotation outcomes. Moreover, protocol fees now scale with system equilibrium, incentivizing actions that stabilize the network by being lower cost or free, and penalizing actions that increase imbalance with higher fees. All collected fees flow entirely to stAMPL depositors, further incentivizing and rewarding their participation and risk acceptance. Through these interactions (AMPL’s foundational elastic rebasing, the Rotation Vault’s tranching mechanism, and SPOT’s innovative Funding Rate), the Ampleforth ecosystem tokens collectively provide a uniquely powerful, decentralized toolkit for investors.

Rebasing is the premiere innovation of AMPL, and the thing that got me AMPL pilled. Its been a tough intellectual road to climb, but the AMPL ecosystem is not something to look away from. In fact its the opposite. You aren't in crypto or blockchain until you take AMPL seriously.

AMPL is game changing: Not fixed supply like BTC Not price-pegged like USDC A new category: a market-driven unit of account that adjusts supply instead of price. Elastic. Transparent. Non-political.

To hold AMPL is to opt into a different monetary logic, one rooted in math, not decree. “The neutrality illusion is fading. What replaces it won’t be colorless or silent. It will be bold, intentional, and open-source.”

The first is quite obvious and is a matter of picking your "core assets" that will keep/grow/manage a forever position of: SoV: BTC Utility+SoV: ETH, XAUT, XMR Stables & altStables: LUSD, BOLD, AMPL, RAI