Let's talk about the 750,000 in $OP incentives coming to $veVELO lockers in the coming weeks and months.
Things are about to heat up! π΄ββοΈπ¨
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Those who lock $VELO are making a long-term bet on both Velodrome and the @optimismFND ecosystem.
Their votes control protocol emissions and they earn 100% of the fees and bribes for pairs they vote for.
In other words, lockers are essential to the flywheel.
That is why we are reducing the barrier to entry for individuals or protocols through $OP incentives.
Making it even more capital efficient for folks to get engaged in the #VeloRaces.
And helping early movers build liquidity on their pairs without diluting their holders.
Let's breakdown some deets, racer.
πͺAirdrop to Existing Lockers
50k $OP to those who locked $VELO 6/1 - 7/13
125k $OP bonus those locking more before 7/28
The snapshot for "existing lockers" is today (7/13) at midnight UTC. π
πͺAirdrop to New Lockers
75k $OP to those who lock $VELO before 7/28
πͺAirdrop to Ongoing Lockers
500k $OP to those locking the next 5 months
Estimated at a rate of ~50k $OP every 2 weeks
On top of this, $veVELO lockers receive:
π΄ββοΈ100% of fees on pools they vote for
π΄ββοΈ100% of bribes on pools they vote for
π΄ββοΈ A variable anti-dilutive weekly rebase
And since we'll be dedicating another 1.45M in $OP to bribes, lockers can expect some juicy voting APRs.
We'll share more on our plan for bribing incentives soon and expect the airdrops to begin next week.
To learn more about our plans, read our announcement thread below.
Velodrome is receiving a 3,000,000 $OP grant from @optimismPBC to accelerate our efforts deepen liquidity and drive value back to the ecosystem.
Want details on the grant and how we'll use it?
Let's go for a quick ride!π΄ββοΈπ¨
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Velodrome is an AMM designed to be the central trading and liquidity marketplace on Optimism.
We operate as a public good, where 100% of fees and bribes goes back to $veVELO lockers.
@optimismPBC bootstrapped us to help solve the biggest barrier to ecosytem growth: liquidity.
Deep liquidity on ecosystem pairs is essential to protocols ability to lure users away from main-net + attract the volume needed to fuel exponential growth.
Users need low fee, low slippage swaps at scale.
And that volume should produce value for the ecosystem, not extract it.
Velodrome is now the second largest protocol on @optimismPBC and the #VeloRaces are underway.
Next week, we'll be supercharging the racers through the introduction of bribes and boosted incentives.
Are you ready racer?
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Bribes are an essential component of the Velodrome flywheel and we're going to kick them off right.
The Velodrome Team will bribe the VELO-USDC pool with 1M $VELO. Voters who vote for the pool will earn the bribes/fees and LPs will earn the boosted emissions.
But, we're not stopping there.
We're also going to be dedicating a portion of our voting power to boosting the pools of any protocol that either bribes or locks additional $veVELO voting power.
Giving a healthy head-start to the most engaged racers.
Velodrome's emissions are driven by the votes of $veVELO lockers. The more votes a pool gets, the more emissions it gets, the more liquidity it attracts.
The twist?
Those voters also get 100% of protocol fees and bribes, in addition to weekly anti-dilutive rebases.
This makes it highly capital efficient for protocols to lock $VELO early when emissions are highest.
They are able to bootstrap deep L2 liquidity, farm emissions, earn trading revenue, and (essentially) bribe themselves.
What will you be able to do?
βοΈ Swap Tokens
πͺ Deposit LPs
π Lock $VELO as $veVELO
πΈ Deposit Bribes
π³ Vote for Pools
πͺ Claim Airdrops
For those claiming their πͺ...
All snapshots are complete for DeFi + OP users. You will be able to check your eligibility on May 31st.
Anyone holding or purchasing $WeVE will redeem it on #Fantom and claim $USDC and $VELO on Optimism.