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Incentives ​

Incentives in PoL can be defined as a creative and customizable marketplace for Validator's $BGT emissions.

A simplified way to look at the whole incentive system is like a bounty board for validators to pick and choose which incentive/gauges seems worthy of their $BGT emissions, acquired via proposing a block.

Incentives For Validators ​

$BGTemissions are distributed to liquidity providers via Gauges. Below is an expanded view of the diagram in the Gauges section, which additionally show protocols providing incentives to gauges.

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Once an active validator produces a block and emits $BGT, it gets to decide which gauges to emit their rewards to. Protocols' incentives provided to gauges are then rewarded to the validator proportional for the amount of $BGT emitted to the gauge.

WARNING

The above diagram only conceptually illustrates the flow of assets to and from gauges. It is not a contract-based overview.

In summary, the asset & user flow in gauges can be described as follows:

  1. Users → assets into gauge
  2. Protocols → incentives into gauge
  3. Validators → $BGT emissions into gauge
  4. Gauge → $BGT to users for providing assets
  5. Gauge → incentives to validators for emitting $BGT

How are Incentive Proposals Created? (WIP - as third party not decided) ​

Incentives can only be create via successful voting done via governance. Ecosystem, users and foundation decide on proposals based on the their own due-diligence.

To learn how to creative proposal,

Criteria for Incentives ​

Before a protocol may provide incentives, the incentive asset must first be whitelisted through a $BGT governance proposal (often done in tandem with a gauge whitelisting proposal). There is a limit of 3 incentive assets per gauge, although this is subject to change.

When creating an incentive, the one providing incentives must:

  1. Specify the amount of incentives to be rewarded per 1 $BGT emitted by validators
  2. Provide the incentive assets into the gauge

Example ​

  • The Berachain Foundation wishes to incentivize the $bHONEY gauge
  • They provide 1 $wBTC, 10 $wETH, and 100 $sgtUSDC per $BGT emitted to the gauge
  • A validator who emits 0.5 $BGT to the gauge receives 0.5 $wBTC, 5 $wETH, and 50 $sgtUSDC as a reward

To recap, anyone can provide incentives as long as...

  1. The gauge has at-least 1 whitelisted incentive pair (Example: 1 $wBTC per $BGT).
  2. The incentives provided meet a minimum incentive rate (defined per incentive asset).