As crypto adapts to fit a more mature crowd of asset allocators, the Beras are making some changes.
Here's everything you need to know about the new PoL 🧵
2/ Most chains spend emissions like a faucet. Value flows out, little flows back, and the chain underwrites the economy while earning none of the upside.
Berachain flipped that with Proof of Liquidity. Now we're scaling it.
3/ PoL Next Roadmap: turn every dollar emitted into compounding returns for $BERA holders.
Phase 1: Cut the waste ✅
Phase 2: Simplify the token model ✅
Phase 3: Launch ERA (Emission Return Agreement), coming to mainnet next ⏭️
4/ Phase 1 was about making emissions leaner.
Inflation cut from 8% to ~5%, dedicated emission streams launched for chain-owned initiatives, and stagnant reward vaults consolidated.
Fewer idle allocations. More impact per token emitted.
5/ Phase 2 simplifies the token model entirely.
BGT is deprecated, the boost curve is removed, and all incentive value accrues into SWBERA. One token, one yield path, one value sink for the entire ecosystem.
6/ New token flow.
BGT and Incentive Tokens collapse into a single SWBERA rail. Emissions flow to teams, revenue flows back to SWBERA holders through ERA cohorts and the existing Incentive Marketplace, with ERA replacing Incentive Marketplace entirely in the near future.
7/ Phase 3: ERA is coming.
Selected teams receive dedicated emission streams sized to their stage and growth plan, returning a minimum fixed yield on every BERA emitted over 3-12 months, with a portion of future revenue shared back to Berachain in perpetuity.
8/ Every BERA emitted comes back stronger.
High-growth teams use ERA for non-dilutive capital → scale revenue → Berachain/SWBERA earns fixed return on emissions plus perpetual revenue share → stronger $BERA → more growth capital → more teams funded → repeat.
9/ Timeline.
PoL Next goes live on Bepolia testnet May 26, with the Fusaka EL hardfork following May 27 at 1600 UTC, with mainnet planned for late June. Residual BGT remains redeemable for BERA from the Hub, with future emissions claimable as WBERA or SWBERA.
10/ Teams are aware of the changes.
We're working closely with ecosystem teams and LSTs on migration options in preparation of BGT being phased out to ensure users have a clear path forward.
11/ See the full details on the Forum.
If you'd like to read more about the full roll out, see the latest forum post here: dub.sh/8O7MrJZ
12/ Dive into technicals via the docs.
See the new contract code, ABIs, and more at: dub.sh/N9sCXuk
13/ Full details later this month.
If your team is building something poised for rapid expansion, and are in search of non-dilutive growth capital, reach out. We want to hear from you for the next ERA cohort.
$BERA is the asset. SWBERA is the yield. Growth is the product.
14/ Thanks for reading.
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Everything changes Monday. On March 24th, PoL goes live, and governance proceeds to Phase 1.
Incentives start flowing. New vaults start getting emissions.
Here’s what changes and what's next.
Phase 0 → Phase 1
PoL started with a limited rollout within BEX pools, to sufficiently decentralize the BGT supply for on-chain governance.
In preparation for Monday, contracts have been upgraded to support incentive distribution across users, applications, and validators.
Whitelisting Reward Vaults Beyond BEX
The first batch of Requests for Reward Vault (RFRVs) from applications has been assessed and approved. The full list of newly whitelisted reward vaults and the protocols behind them will be released tomorrow.
Batch 1 was limited to DEX pools. New vaults and use cases (in addition to DEX pools) will be approved starting next week.
Tokens can be claimed on February 6, 2025, using a variety of EVM wallets including Metamask, OKX Wallet and more. Read more about distribution details at: blog.berachain.com/blog/berachain…
PoL enables protocol-owned liquidity. Instead of paying LPs to rent liquidity for your token, protocols can tap into the chain’s native emissions as a source of yield to bootstrap token liquidity.
1) liquidity?
2) benefits of owning liq
3) actionable steps to bootstrap liquidity
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Liquidity refers to the amount of tokens available to trade for a pair. If there's no liquidity for your token so it can be swapped, it is essentially worthless because holders can't buy or sell. To provide liquidity, tokens on both sides of the pool must be locked in a smart contract.
Typically, protocols participate in liquidity mining programs that pay LPs to provide liquidity with their token. The downside is there's ongoing rent for this liquidity, and you increase the emission of the native token, resulting in inflation of the circulating supply.
Proof of Liquidity is an accelerant for Berachain's application layer—users, protocols, and validators work together to scale liquidity and security simultaneously.
Here's how 👇🐻
Users: Supply liquidity and stake LP to accumulate BGT rewards + LP fees. BGT rewards for a gauge are calculated from the global weighted average of validators' gauges
Users' BGT earnings are based on 1. total assets staked in the gauge 2. amount of BGT emitted to the gauge
Validators: Take turns building blocks and earn block rewards based on the amount of BGT delegated to them. Validators direct a portion of the BGT earned via block building to gauges of their choice via their "berachef."
And Berachain's CTO and Research Lead @itsdevbear dives into the developer centric intricacies of BeaconKit, a modular framework for building EVM consensus clients
Developers and users may engage with the faucet and receive testnet BERA tokens for interacting with the network and its embedded applications at artio.faucet.berachain.com
As users, validators and developers begin their journey on Berachain - let’s dive into Proof of Liquidity (PoL), and what it has to offer versus traditional proof of stake chains.