Can an ETH Token be more valuable than Ethereum?

[BitcoinBarrel]

What do you think?

[berrygood]

It just offer a token structure for projects, it is not advanced platform now like game development platforms, even a lot of games can be more valuable than unity so in ethereum, this is more possible.

[sarul]

I think "Yes, he can". Nothing is impossible in the crypto world. See on bitcoin, the famous coin and as a reference coin exchange but there's several coin that's worth more than bitcoin price. Ex. Primalbase which price is more than 1 BTC.

[anylic]

Its value was based on Ethereum and if it wants to achieve that, it must be independent of the technology as well as  superior platform than ethereum

[DuarteFig]

If you think of Ethereum as the Internet and one of the ERC20 tokens on Ethereum as shares of a company that might be the next Google, maybe yes.
Ethereum is a platform. The price increase is due to demand to develop or invest in projects built upon it. Protocol changes and platform improvements may lead to a price stabilization in the future, but a project using the network and generating profits may keep growing.
Of course I'm not talking about 2017, this could be a future scenario.

[brenzi]

Interesting question. Especially when ethereum moves to PoS. If the market capitalization of token A (or all ETH tokens together) exceeds that of ETH by far, then the network is secured by much less capital than it carries. Not sure this is a stable situation.

This might result in a similar situation as for a bank with too little own capital ratio / too high leverage ratio.

[blockchainmarketus]

What do you think?

Everything is possible in the market. WHen the eth token is highly demanded by the users slowly the price will increase. It is different from tokens with fake project. Most valuable tokens are usually tokens that have running project. When the project of the developers succesfull there are many users that buy the tokens. As the economic law of supply and demand , the price will pump by the market itself. the worst thing of the ICOs are there are only few tokens with running projects. Most of them are fake or long term running project. They have roadmap until 2019-2020. I think the token will be lost in the market because of new projects.

[illinest]

What do you think?

Of course. It simply needs a very low supply. There are coins that have traded higher than Bitcoin due to very low supply (combined with speculation about future demand).

But that really only refers to the price. I think it's very unlikely that a token could be more valuable than Ethereum, when you consider the economic and developer base across the entire platform.

[SgtSunDevil]

What do you think?

Of course. It simply needs a very low supply. There are coins that have traded higher than Bitcoin due to very low supply (combined with speculation about future demand).

But that really only refers to the price. I think it's very unlikely that a token could be more valuable than Ethereum, when you consider the economic and developer base across the entire platform.

That is exactly right, for example Europium, bet you can't afford even 1 of those.

http://www.europium.eu.com

Wow.

[Valay9836]

I also believe that everything depends on the team and the approach of the team . So anything is possible

[Jpti]

ETH token value per unit is already more valuable than a unit Ethereum.
Maker and Mixin both ethereum token are being traded at more price than Ethereum itself.
They by total marketcap, are also the 33rd and 55th largest coins.

[jagaban]

I see an erc token is like a smaller company while Eth is like a country. So it will not be out of place to see an eth token gaining more value and profit than the Ethereum itself.