Hello Meterians,
The 9th Incentive cycle on Meter Mainnet started on July 8, 2022, and ended on August 7, 2022.
As the 9th cycle comes to an end, we will review the performance of the incentivized pairs and determine the reallocation of volt for the 10th cycle from August 7, 2022 to August 28, 2022.
NOTE: In anticipation of shift to ve(3,3) model for Voltswap yield farming, the 10th incentive cycle is maintained for 3 weeks. In case of delay in the deployment, we plan to further add another short incentive cycle.
TL, DR:
Evaluation Criteria of Incentivized Liquidity Pairs:
We could define a few of the critical parameters that will help us evaluate the performance of the liquidity pairs on Voltswap;
- Transaction Volume
- This is by far the most important parameter for evaluation since the goal of the product is to generate free cash flows from the operations and be self-sustainable
- Total Value Locked (TVL)
- This is a critical parameter to gauge the adoption of the DEX. Higher TVL is typically correlated with higher adoption and enables bigger buys on the DEX without too high a price impact
- Turnover of the pair
- It can be defined as the ratio of Volume by TVL
- Higher volume for a specific TVL means that the pair has a higher utilization of assets and the LPs are generating higher revenues due to the turnover.
- Historical Impermanent Loss
- The APY would address the IL loss incurred by the users through higher VOLT allocation
| Pair | Period Weighted Liquidity (Cycle 9) | Period Weighted Liquidity (Cycle 10) | Period Weighted Volume (Cycle 9) | Period Weighted Volume (Cycle 10) | Goal | Action |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MTRG-VOLT | 124,498.04 | 160,201.48 | 6,658.21 | 7,479.31 | Ensure higher VOLT liquidity | Maintain higher Allocation |
| MTRG-BUSD.bsc | 126,481.63 | 150,727.90 | 23,658.53 | 38,992.57 | Attract more liquidity as a key MTRG pair and reduce price impact. | Maintain Allocation |
| BUSD.bsc-VOLT | 66,294.55 | 67,988.40 | 3,973.14 | 4,879.09 | Ensure higher VOLT liquidity | Maintain Allocation |
| BUSD.bsc-USDC.eth | 1,029,768.92 | 1,027,498.79 | 3,582.48 | 4,995.26 | Maintain APY as the current LP seems adequate to meet overall liquidity | Maintain Allocation |
| MTRG-AMPL | 11,885.20 | 19,269.30 | 401.74 | 619.51 | Maintain liquidity to enable higher volume from arbitragers due to rebasing | Maintain Allocation |
| MTRG-MTR | 91,073.26 | 130,821.24 | 2,865.35 | 2,492.28 | Incentivize MTR liquidity | Maintain Allocation |
| BUSD.bsc-USDT.eth | 623,630.15 | 624,514.55 | 1,957.19 | 2,181.42 | Maintain APY as the current LP seems adequate to meet overall liquidity | Maintain Allocation |
| MTRG-MOVR | 28,308.60 | 35,035.48 | 1,424.30 | 1,051.60 | Maintain Liquidity | Maintain Allocation |
| MTRG-FTB | 4,405.33 | 5,870.09 | 111.78 | 42.55 | Increase Liquidity for FTB | Maintain Allocation |
Based on the above criteria, lets us look at the statistics on Meter Mainnet
- Current Volt allocation to the Incentivized Pairs
- Period Weighted Liquidity for Incentivized Pairs
- Period Weighted Transaction Volumes for Incentivized Pairs – Since transaction volumes do depend on market conditions and token specific events, a smoothening effect is applied to add higher weights to immediate past
Column 4,5,6 are average volumes
Columns 7,8,9 are median volumes
Column 12 is the overall average volume of each pair smoothened for periods (7-day, 30-day, Total Vol) and method (average volume and median volume). Pure Average volume would have the bias of outlier days where there is very high transaction volume or very low transaction volume
- Evaluation of Pairs based on overall role in DEX Growth (65% weight to transaction volume and 35% weight to TVL)
- Turnover (Volume by TVL) for Incentivized Pairs
Based on the above insights, the volt allocation proposed for the 9th cycle on Meter Mainnet are as below;