Bitplanet Gestalt Intro

This section is written with the assumption that the reader is familiar with the Bitplanet x/brahma technical implemention and component pieces of Bitplanet & Deva.

This section includes reasoning traces that describes and analyzes the constituent pieces and choices in relation to each other and the full integrated whole system.

The Bitplanet and Deva approach is a holistic integrated approach. Meaning the choices across all points of design (mechanisms, tokenomics, abstractions), should be considered in relation to each choice and the system as a whole; rather than in isolation.

For simplicity, the term “whole” as “system” will be used which includes all the described in Bitplanet materials (software, abstractions, ecosystem economic actors, dynamic governance and market mechanisms, and variables of change like emissions rates and economic splits).

It is a bit of a requirement to understand each piece of the system in isolation as described above, from top-down, and from bottom-up to be able to get a sense of how the system interplays with the constituent parts.

Those who can grok all the pieces at a technical and markets level tend to be people who have high-frequency trading experience. Discretionary trading experience is usually not enough if there is no software engineering understanding.

It is unlikely to be able to grok the whole system without familiarity in engineering, crypto, and markets (developing software, linear algebra, changing variables by vote, programmatic reads based on real-time on-chain data, option calls, market valuations, capital formation, AMMs, statistical representations, and the value of crypto and markets for resource allocation).

A number of early backers of Bitplanet came from high-frequency trading backgrounds.

The next sections explores more how they understand and describe Bitplanet.