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Bankless: Relayer Capital’s Austin Barack Sees App Tokens Repricing on Buybacks

Relayer Capital founder Austin Barack said on Bankless that crypto’s next winners will be applications rather than blockchains, pointing to Venice, Hyperliquid, Pump.fun and ether.fi as tokens whose revenue now flows back to holders through buybacks and burns. He estimated Venice’s annualized revenue at about $107 million as of August 2026, with roughly $8.3 million in annual VVV burns, and a $43.9 VVV target price under optimistic assumptions.

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The interesting claim here is structural, not directional: value accrual is being framed as a function of cash-flow return to holders rather than chain-level activity. That shifts the comparison set for app tokens toward instruments judged on buyback and burn capacity, which is a different lens than the sector has typically used. Whether revenue-linked repurchases become a durable valuation anchor across these names, or remain a feature of a handful of outliers, is the open question to watch.

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