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Table 1 Definitions of system state variables

From: On modeling blockchain-enabled economic networks as stochastic dynamical systems

State Variable

Definition

S(t)

supply of unit service at time t

D(t)

demand of unit service at time t

Q(t)

quantity of unit service transacted at time t

P(t)

price of a unit service at time t

R(t)

miner profitability at time t

K(t)

price of a native token at time t

B(t)

block rewards released at time t

C(t)

cost of unit service at time t

ΔS(t)

arrival of new unit service supply at time t

ΔD(t)

arrival of new unit service demand at time t

Xs(t)

departure of unit service supply at time t

Xd(t)

departure of unit service demand at time t

V(t)

native token earned per unit fiat invested in the system at time t

\(\frac {1}{V(t)}\)

intrinsic value of native token at time t

U(t)

speculative value of native token at time t

W(t)

amount of native token left in block rewards pool at time t

I(t)

abstract index on network’s progress to achieve its goal at time t