Felecia Davis 
Despite being publicly endorsed by the respective mayors of each cities, MiamiCoin (MIA) and NewYorkCityCoin (NYC) have plunged 90% and 80% since their all-time highs.
According to knowledge from CoinGecko, the value of MIA has dropped 92% since its ATH of $0.055 on Sept. 20 to sit down at $0.004 on the time of writing. While NYC’s worth has fallen by 80% since its March 3 excessive of $0.006 to commerce at $0.0014.
With investors getting burned throughout many different crypto property of late, demand for MIA and NYC cash has virtually fully dried up.
Trading quantity for the duo over the previous 24 hours has totaled a mere $70,190 and $45,663 respectively. In comparability, when MIA and NYC have been at ATH ranges, they generated $1.6 million and $260,000 price of 24 volumes apiece.
Miami mayor Frances Suarez has spoken concerning the potential use-cases of MIA on a number of events, and most lately introduced in February that the native authorities had disbursed $5.25 million from its reserve pockets to assist a rental help program.
New York City mayor Eric Adams additionally welcomed NYC with open arms in November after he acknowledged that “we’re glad to welcome you to the worldwide dwelling of Web3! We’re relying on tech and innovation to assist drive our metropolis ahead.”
The property have been developed by the CityCash venture, a Stacks layer-on blockchain-based protocol aiming to offer crypto fundraising avenues for native governments resembling Miami and New York City, its two and solely companions to this point.
A key incentive — regardless of potential regulatory grey areas — is that CityCash’ sensible contracts routinely allocate 30% of all mining rewards to a custodied reserve pockets for the partnered metropolis, whereas miners obtain the remaining 70%.
As of January this yr, the worth of Miami and New York City’s reserve wallets had hit round $24.7 million and $30.8 million respectively in response to CityCash Community Lead Andre Serrano, suggesting there had been comparatively sturdy neighborhood demand to mine the asset on the time.
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However, whereas the governments have benefited from the partnerships, on the consumer/investor aspect of issues it seems the share of mining rewards, and a supposed 9% annual BTC yield from “stacking” (primarily staking) the property on the Stacks (STX) blockchain, is just not engaging sufficient to drive sturdy demand.
Michael Bloomberg, an city expertise researcher at Cornell Tech, lately instructed to Quartz that the cash might even turn into ineffective to the cities if additional utility isn’t added seize investor urge for food:
“People will cease mining the coin if they will’t become profitable off of it, and the one approach they become profitable off of it’s convincing better fools to take part.”
