Firstly, i want to be clear: I’m not against fair distribution and agree that in current state it’s kinda messed up.
Secondly, no i dont propose to release all tokens at once. It’s easy road to grave ofc.
Thirdly, nope, testers doesn’t “holding 90%+ of tokens”. It’s 90% of current circ supply which messed up. Totally agree.
(As you know some of Alphas already sell their bags so i think it’s slightly less)
I suggest to think:
About better vesting period. That part of your prop is completly ok as i said.
About more incentives for LPs + community. We have a plenty interesting things like yVaults, pools in different projects, etc.
Not to mention about PowerPool own pools, Power Index, etc.
This two points can and should correlate with each other. For rough example, when community part>beta/gamma part, then we can release this tokens (with vesting period) or something.
Also ofc we should discuss one more time about needed quantity of CVP to making props once we will in mainnet.
This has probably been my biggest worry for the project since the beginning, and I was wondering if it’d actually be wrong to actually decrease the rewards for the testers, as I couldn’t think of any other solutions myself. Now, seeing this table completely drawn up makes things even worse (visually).
Let’s just line up the facts so far:
a bunch of Alpha testers have already sold (and we were in a bullish month, so now imagine the next month if things don’t go as well)
Early LP’s were the ones that risked the most, and lost the most, but their rewards haven’t been compensated up to par. I think we all agree with that as demonstrated on PIP1
Although I agree that it wouldn’t be fair to decrease beta/gamma’s allocation after the deal was struck, the truth is we just can’t be sure most of them won’t be dumping after the vesting period.
I have to agree with @Zero that once betas/gammas tokens are unlocked, they will just gang up and vote to revert this proposal. Hence I’d like to get to my first proposal update: Once we vote for this new structure/vesting period, it should be set in stone, REGARDLESS.
From the response so far my take is that everyone agrees the token distribution is a disaster and that even beta/gammas are OK to accept a longer vesting period. Like I said above, I don’t think the proposal is aggressive enough in the distribution schedule. The current proposal assumes a total vesting period of 9 months. Let’s be honest guys, being awarded $90K usd (@ today’s price) it’s quiet generous, we can and should increase the vesting period, up to 18-24 months. That’d be a distribution of 4-5.5% tokens each month. I would be OK not decreasing tester rewards but increasing the vesting period even further, up to 30-36 months.
What we have is a textbook case of prisoner’s dilemma, and if we stick together longer, we win, it’s that simple.
Finally, I’d like to thank @Sergey, as he’s definitely been spending a lot of precious hours on this (besides LPing). I’d like to also get @anildelphi 's input on this, I’m SURE this is something they have thought about.
I am a gamma tester. It is understandable to delay the token distribution schedule. However, it is sad for a gamma tester to make a difference even if the number of beta and gamma is reduced. It should have been the same right originally. Gamma testers are now testing with their asset tokens. The token is plummeting. Shouldn’t gamma be adjusted at least with 35,000 sheets like beta in this proposal?
I think @Sergey’s proposal is good, but I don’t know whether it’s the best alternative long term.
I would like to propose the following:
Having a vote to agree that some of the Beta and Gamma testers’ rewards be distributed to early LPs - a very simple proposal without any numbers, just to agree on the fact that this must be done.
With more time, discussion and debate, craft a proposal on how those rewards should be redistributed to early LPs. The proposal that comes out of this exercise should be comprehensive and include all sensitive/important details.
I would even ask the guys at Delphi to help us think this through. They have also stated that the initial distribution wasn’t good - so I think they may be interested in helping with this.
As I mentioned above, I would breakdown the task as follows
Not to offend the testers too much
Give more benefits to early LPs (but again reasonably, not like 10 mn CVPs to Early LPs because I am an easly LP myself)
Decrease the circ supply
Create buying pressure via incentivizing new users to by CVP (via bossted general LM program)
I think that the only way to simultaneously reward the Early LPs and decrease/streamline the circ supply is to decrease the reward for beta/gammas and relatively slightly increase the reward for early LPs (+1 mn CVPs)
but I agree that we should extend the lock ups more aggressively. I would suggest 18 months linear unlock for both the testers and the early LPs
1 being: Having a vote to agree that some of the Beta and Gamma testers’ rewards be distributed to early LPs - a very simple proposal without any numbers, just to agree on the fact that this must be done.
This proposal passing would imply delaying sending the rewards to Beta and Gamma until a vote on how to redistribute them is done - even if mainnet launches.
It would give us the time we need to think this through. I’m not talking about months here, but maybe 1-2 weeks.
The current early LP distribution does seem very low relative to the tester portions. As a Gamma tester I would be comfortable with a reduction especially since I also intend to be an LP.
That said if the concern is sell pressure LPs also need some sort of disincentive to dump immediately. Other projects LP rewards have historically been auto-dumped by both whales and other protocols specifically designed to farm high APY yields and dump continuously. Won’t dig into potential solutions too much here as its unrelated to this proposal but just something to consider.
I have no qualms with vesting of tester tokens as most of the tokens are vesting for six months anyway - so a week or two makes no difference but to cut the total offered by 50% to distribute to some whales who parked tokens is real bullshit.
To my mind it doesn’t matter whether LP or beta/gamma tester will get more tokens. It’s about good incentive for PowerPool participants to hold token and don’t sell on buyers bid.
Are there any potential deflationary mechanism of CVP in discussions now? Any incentive to prolong the hold period of tokens? I think we might need first of all to think about creating ecosystem where demand would be always bigger than pressure from sellers.
P.S. I’m personally not against big vesting. Good decision in current market.
It is perfect to do this (by adding some burning mechanics for example) but team concentrating on product . Look how easily they send big bags of tokens for testers and going to do this again for future testers. I m not sure they even discuss token economy which is key thing.
