web3/concepts/cryptoasset.md

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# Crypto Asset
A digital asset that is traded on a [[blockchain]].
Crypto assets have no [use-value](use-value.md), no [fundamental-value](fundamental-value.md), and no [income-cashflows](income-cashflows.md) and are a pure manifestation of the [greater-fool-theory](greater-fool-theory.md).
## Comparables
* Zero-coupon perpetual bond
* Unspendable [currency](concepts/currency.md)
* [equity](concepts/security.md) with no cash flows or dividends
* [commodity](concepts/commodity.md) with no use value
* Exchange traded pyramid schemes
* [derivative](concepts/derivative.md) contract with no underlying
* [libertarianism](ideologies/libertarianism.md) performance art