In part 1, I touched on DFL’s becoming a new crypto market trend and how BNB embraced it with success. Hyper-deflationary tokens like BOMB are an extension of those, in a less serious package of a smart contract. They’re jokes, scams, experiments based around market dynamics or the passion of nerds, depending on your point of view. They’re mostly on the ethereum network and at the most basic level are based around simple code and human greed.

Lets talk about the next group of current stand outs. This current market growth was sparked by BOMB and most new entries recognize it. Many of them paid homage through imitation or direct airdrops to BOMB holders. A few tokens have tweaked and improved on BOMB’s dynamics, some have even added unique and fresh ideas. This is where I’ll go over what I’ve found.

FUZE latched on to the supply scarcity and destruction rate behind BOMB and increased it. 1000 token max supply, 5% burn rate. The demand came early from a John McAfee tweet and price peaked on july 7th above $400. The price has been searching for it’s bottom since and it now sits at $27.

Aftershock started with BOMB’s 1 million token supply but added staking to their contract. 3% is burned from every transaction and 3% distributed to SHOCK “being staked” as holding rewards. Holders use the website or a wallet extension to claim the staking rewards. To claim the 3% distributed like dividends aftershock must be held in a private wallet.

This might be the thinking mans DFL token, SHOCK brings extra levels of game theory to buying and selling. You can’t collect SHOCK dividends if you keep it on a centralized exchange(CEX). Keeping SHOCK trading on a DEX increases the burn rate and lowers future supply, rewarding holders with increased scarcity and 3% of traffic. Aftershock launched with it’s first trades around $0.03 and hit $0.24 in 2 weeks, now at $0.15.

Tron has it’s own DFL tokens, one of the first is FRAG token. Supply will max at 10 million tokens and burn rate is 1%. The only non-ETH DFL, on today’s list, FRAG excels at dapp releasing and engagement. Dapps for gambling, earning dividends, earning rebates from gambling, raffles and soon, an idle FRAGgoo game. FRAG is available on the Tron DDEX and is currently at $0.01 cent. This is the DFL for gamers and gamblers. They’ll come, if FRAG keeps adding to it’s 6 dapps.

The DFL token killer app, might be from the developers of BAGS token. BAGS heard the major complaint about DFL coins and they answered with a use case. BAGS allows users to exchange “shitcoins” for up to 50 BAGS. Any erc-20 older than BAGS, over a penny in value can be “upcycled” for only a pennies worth of your token as collateral. Hold 100 BAGS while the contract holds your $1’s worth. If your old bag moons then exchange the BAGS back, if this BAGS token goes higher then you made the right hedge.

So many us nerd coin investors hold bags at all-time lows. If you have a refusal to sell or believe in it long term then BAGS could be your perfect crypto insurance. Low 1 million supply with a 2% burn rate that drops in future years. This token is just developing and may need time to figure out handling the upcycle swapping.

I think the key is in how they’ll market upcycling, it’d be easy for a creative person to push this or the other tokens I listed. They all have shots at lasting and getting enough traction to drive scarcity. With these wacky coins that’s the whole goal.

Please use caution when investing in something new and volatile. This is not financial advise. Do your own research and share your results.