As we launch SSV’s Shifu V2 Testnet and move closer to a subsequent release candidate, the details of the network are beginning to solidify. But at this moment, before all of this is finalized in preparation for mainnet launch, we have an opportunity to augment the project’s tokenomics to improve the network’s properties, support the SSV community, and better serve the greater Ethereum ecosystem. To encourage discussion on the topic, I wrote an article (English, Chinese) to illustrate how we might seek to achieve such effects and present some example solutions for us to consider, including:
Encouraging decentralization by giving advantages to small operators
Increasing network and market stability by incentivizing users to hold more SSV
Creating a method to “stake” SSV and earn a return without needing the DAO to mint new tokens to pay for it
Increasing DAO governance participation by incentivizing regular voting
If you are interested, please give it a read and post your comments, opinions, and ideas. And please vote below if you would like to see research continue on any of the mechanisms presented. Thanks, and have a great weekend!
Give advantages to small operators
Incentivize users to hold more SSV
Create a method to “stake” SSV without minting new tokens
Great work @fod.
there are my 2cents.
As for the section of “Objective: Increase decentralization by favoring many small operators over few large ones”, I think the penalties mechanism could facilitate decentralization.
The penalties (extra network fees) go to DAO directly. I propose to distribute a portion of the penalties to small validators who reach some metrics (good performance) as base revenue. It is hard for small validators to promote themselves compared with professional and verified ones. The base fees could help them to cover the time & cost and encourage them keep running at the early stage.
Also, from the performance’s side, NOs should be supposed to set up the upper limit of VAs they would like to host.
About the objective: Increase network and market stability by incentivizing users to hold more SSV, locking more SSV leads to fewer circulating supply. My concern is if it could cause bump&dump?
about the objective: Increase governance participation, I think the delegation suits SSV network while SSV network is a pretty tech-driven and to-business project while we need more tech-based professionals.
Thank you all for your feedback and ideas. In the coming weeks, I’ll refine the “give advantages to small operators” and the “incentivize users to hold more SSV” concepts, and I’ll present updated designs with expanded analysis.
Hi everyone, sorry for the lack of communication, but I just wanted to make a quick comment to say that work on this has not stopped. Instead, we have been having discussions behind the scenes and are working to create a working group that will focus on upgrading our tokenomics in various ways. Lots of exciting stuff is coming, but it all takes time and work… and right now, we’re doing as much as we can unpaid but can’t devote much time to it. We’re hoping to increase the time we can all spend on this by formalizing the group and offering compensation.
