{"id":1019331,"date":"2026-07-07T09:01:54","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T03:31:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1019331"},"modified":"2026-07-07T09:09:04","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T03:39:04","slug":"reckoning-with-tokenomics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/07\/07\/reckoning-with-tokenomics\/","title":{"rendered":"Reckoning with tokenomics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The anxiety around spiralling IT related costs, and fears about the AI bubble bursting persist. Owing to this, the South Korean stock market crashed 10% on June 23. Other Asian markets, including India followed suit, with varying impact, and it continued the following day. The economics of AI tokens and their mounting consumption must share the blame. <\/p>\n<p>Goldman Sachs Research estimates a massive, 24-fold increase in token consumption by 2030, to about 120 quadrillion tokens per month, according to their senior analyst Jim Schneider.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The anxiety around spiralling IT related costs, and fears about the AI bubble bursting persist. Owing to this, the South Korean stock market crashed 10% on June 23. Other Asian markets, including India followed suit, with varying impact, and it continued the following day. The economics of AI tokens and their mounting consumption must share the blame. Goldman Sachs Research estimates a massive, 24-fold increase in token consumption by 2030, to about 120 quadrillion tokens per month, according to their senior analyst Jim Schneider.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1019331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1019331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1019331"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1019331\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1019333,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1019331\/revisions\/1019333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1019331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1019331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1019331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}