DIGG and BADGER Post DIGG Launch Week 1 Emissions

General Discussion
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DIGG is as volatile of a ‘currency’ as Badger. 1 DIGG is targeted to be worth 1 BTC, but it doesn’t mean that you will keep owning 1 DIGG.

DIGG value proposition is at targeting BTC price, that is correct. But what if it fails to do so?
Having DIGG value backed by Badger value is a good thing for DIGG.
At least for the early stage, when its value is not set in stone and we have not rolled out more advanced price stabilizing methods.

Having a rebasing token that exists on its own overall is an inferior model to the model where rebasing token is backed by another value-producing asset.

If you could get 600% APY for mining Badger and 400% for mining DIGG would you still mine DIGG to get the rewards?

It is less of a structural question and more of a balancing act, in my opinion.
And the most reliable way to balance is by having 50/50 Badger/DIGG rewards ratios.

Otherwise if Badger’s price decreases, people will have a financial incentive to exchange it for DIGG to mine DIGG Setts for better APYs, thus decreasing the Badger’s price even further.

Having 100% DIGG rewards for DIGG Setts and 75/25 Badger/DIGG ratio for Badger Setts presents an extremely problematic situation for Badger token holders.

Following the logic you’ve presented above, if people think that 1 DIGG is 1 Bitcoin (and more), and Badger is a token with no real value, why would they prefer to mine the Badger Setts over DIGG Setts?

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Continuing my previous thoughts from before, there is an easy way to solve for the difference in the APYs - the 50/50 split in ratios.
An alternative way would be to further cut the emissions of DIGG.

Having Badger focused rewards for Curve BTC Setts is also not necessarily a good thing for Badger holders.
BTC Sett miners are more likely to farm & dump - while, for example, Badger stakers are more likely to stake & restake.

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This is my favourite version for sure.

I think the WBTC/ETH sett should be aligned with CRV BTC emissions and potentially will be our biggest vault in terms of TVL. On top of the Badger and DIGG they earn they will also receive optimized SUSHI as we stake for xSUSHI and distribute back to them.

Also, the Sushi wbtc/badger pool should probably be in line with UNI LP. I’d maybe split the difference (50k) in each. Potentially reduce Badger only slightly as well to incentivize LP’ing over just staking.

Other thing I’d say and we are seeing it in week 3 is there should be a clear APY % different between DIGG only vs DIGG/WBTC LP pairs. This week was the first week we saw Badger only and Badger/wbtc LP APY become relatively close (200% difference). With the rapid rise in BTC price we noticed quite a few large depositors take their LP position out to stay exposed to BTC without IL and then just stake the Badger in Badger only vault. Makes sense right? Why take the IL risks.

With that we should have the DIGG LP distribute more Badger and DIGG vs DIGG only.

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I’ve been working on the Dynamic Emissions Model (DEMo) for Badger/DIGG Emissions.

In short, this model allows for easy normalization of distributed value over time with double token emissions.
It’s still an alpha version, so something could be wrong :slight_smile:
But the idea is that by using it, you can instantly assess the costs and the benefits of changing different inputs.
And have a token emission schedule as a result.

So feel free to ask to adjust whatever specific parameters you would like to take a look at, it should take much less time now.

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Without further ado, here are two models I find well balanced.

The only difference is in Badger/DIGG rewards for Badger Setts. The first one rewards 58% Badger, but requires 80% of Badger emissions.

The second one, which I favor, has 50% Badger rewards - and this decreases the Badger issuance to 71%. Otherwise, they’re the same.

DEMo W4 58%
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DEMo W4 50%
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Regarding Sushi Badger/WBTC Pair.
My general approach was that no Setts should have reduced rewards for week 4.
Making Sushi LP on par with Uniswap LP would be costly to introduce in terms of emissions, so I’ve met you halfway in the current version.

The rewards for Sushi LPs might already be higher than on Uniswap with the same level of liquidity due to Sushi staking rewards.
And having much larger liquidity on Sushi than on Uniswap doesn’t make sense to me unless we start having a much bigger volume there.

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I agree with the benefits of having the WBTC/ETH pair. Albeit I believe that the maximum value from this pair would be gained if we had two Setts - on Uniswap and on Sushi.
Both in terms of TVL and commissions earned.

At least judging from the last week, BadgerDAO would earn more money on commissions from Uniswap WBTC/ETH pool than from Sushi.

If anything, WBTC/ETH liquidity is currently more needed at Uniswap, so it also makes sense from the ecosystem development standpoint.

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I completely don’t mind adjusting the staking rewards ratio. I had the same original thoughts, but also had some others :upside_down_face:

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Great work again Po. I think we are pretty much there. I prefer the first 1.

Only thing I would change is reducing the amount of Badger for DIGG setts slighting. Maybe LPs to 21k,21k and DIGG only to 15k.

Only reason I suggest this for week 1 is that APY’s for DIGG setts are going to be through the roof. Attracting TVl pretty aggressively. It’s at times like this that we can conserve additional rewards for the future. Removing the extra BADGER from DIGG setts in my opinion would change nothing.

Also, this is a great framework and structure to start planning emission management strategy for remaining weeks of LM event.

Add on top of that a buy back program using our treasury, reduction in the need to incentivize liquidity do to that treasury acting as a liquidity source and managing distribution between DIGG/BADGER weekly .

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Looks good! It actually brings us back to 76/52 rate of emissions:

DEMO_W4
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I’d say winner winner chicken dinner lol

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Amazing work! Very excited about this !

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There are a lot of great ideas, very good, I see a great future

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This looks great, been pulled away on dad duty this week but checking in periodically. Thanks for such detailed analysis and breakdown.

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Truly great work and the go-to for DIGG week 1

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@mason brought up a really good topic to discuss that I’ve had my reservations about since before the Badger launch: the comparative underincentivization of liquidity locked in LP pools.

This matter might be especially important in the context of the DIGG launch.

The metric I suggest to consider adjusting is the reward per DIGG/Badger pooled within the program.

Here’s how distributions would look if we were to reward the same amount for Badger and DIGG per liquidity pooled:

DEMo V2
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Why do we need to incentivize digg only staking?
It have the price pegging mechanism and should not require external incentive to hold the price.

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As for reasons to introduce DIGG staking overall, @Spadaboom covered it well in a discussion on Discord:

  • remove sell pressure
  • drive higher conversion rate from rewards or airdrop to staked
  • Have composability with bDIGG for other DeFi apps
  • turn into a “we manage your rebase” strategy in the near future

The buying power of your DIGG changes not only with its price but also with the amount of DIGG you hold - and that amount changes due to rebases.

If you own 1 DIGG at the start of the month, it doesn’t mean that you will own the value of 1 BTC at the end of it.

DIGG is a volatile asset, but its volatility is more focused around its supply than around its price.

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Great work here. I like the line of thinking. Something brought up in another thread that I’m considering this morning is that given the high yield on DIGG from outset, price of DIGG will probably rise above it’s peg as people buy to farm leading to expansionary rebase from outset.

In my mind this will lead to a number of outcomes, one is that LPs will sustain greater losses due to the mismatch of price in wBTC<>DIGG, not the worst consequence as it will lead to the wBTC share of the pool to increase, but certainly a liquidity consideration.

If DIGG setts return is too close to LP returns, I’d hypothesize that people will forego LPing to just provide DIGG, leading to higher demand and higher price for DIGG without the gains in liquidity we might want to see.

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Very good point to consider.

What I think would be interesting is to look at the time since launch and see if there is an “equilibrium” BADGER reward/LP ratio (hard to say “apy” with badger price changing).

So, roughly it would be like " people stop staking LP at roughly X badger per LP". We can then use that as a metric to set the emissions at a rate that would get us to a “target liquidity”. We dont think there is enough liquidity, we can set it higher that week, theres plenty, keep it the same or lower.

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took a while to catch up, but I definitely love the equilibrium arrived at with this model.

  1. The Impermanent Loss offset by staking only Badger is taken care of

  2. Close to 3X DIGG Rewards for users willing to take on higher risks as DIGG LPs compared to Badger LPs

  3. Close to 3X Badger Rewards for users who prefer taking on the Badger LP Risk

  4. The balance that’s achieved can even push users to stake 50% of their investment in Badger and DIGG LPs respectively. We can nudge this a bit, by encouraging users to try different tools for swaps (to claim airdrops similar to 1inch) taking away the barrier of high fees with swapping into multiple coins.

eg. Bob has 1000$ to invest. We can craft a story that encourages him to swap 250$ for Badger (on Matcha), 250$ for DIGG (dydx/Paraswap), and 500$ for WBTC (on DEX.AG).

He can then go on to provide liquidity in both the Badger-BTC and DIGG-BTC pools, best of both worlds!

Maybe we can even create a Furucombo that combines multiple steps like these into one!

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Why not just use zapper for the LP? One stop shop.

$500 -> Badger/wBTC (today)
$500 -> DIGG/wBTC (future)

-> Stake, Earn more Badger.

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Yeah Zapper is a simple option that can be provided too, the goal of creating the narrative around using multiple different products is to help users possibly claim some of the retroactive airdrops that may happen for some of these services in the future (DEX.AG, dydx, Matcha, Zapper etc.)

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hello,sorry for my english,I want to know how to get the DIGG. would you explain it simply. ths

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lessgo boys/girls this shit is moving along rather fluidly. great input from the community :))