dHEDGE Staking 2.0
DHT Boost Staking
This is an overview of the upcoming changes to the DHT Staking Mechanism. Timing of this going live is dependent on a few factors, including completion of a contract audit. Announcements will follow as launch date approaches.
Introduction
dHEDGE DAO recently passed governance to implement an overhauled DHT staking mechanism.
The new design aims to closely align DHT emissions with protocol revenue (fees) such that the overall sustainability of the DAO is improved.
Development of this new mechanism has advanced to the point where it’s live on a staging environment and is undergoing testing, and will be subject to a contracts audit.
Launch of this new mechanism is scheduled immediately after the upcoming dHEDGE Blue Volcano release, approximately timed for mid September. This is of course pending audits and testing as mentioned above.
Launching this mechanism will also involve deprecating the existing staking (on ETH mainnet), in addition to sunsetting the existing performance mining program. More on this below.
But in the meantime, here is a how-to guide of what the new mechanism means to users, and an overview of how to optimize it for potential positions.
DHT Staking 2.0 - “Boost Staking”
A major upgrade to staking DHT is that it will now be available on Polygon and Optimism. This represents a migration of governance from ETH mainnet to L2’s which is consistent with the recent Product developments on dHEDGE.
The revised staking mechanism has focused on enabling DHT with two main functions:
- Governance power, and
- A mechanism to reward positive investing behaviour
The fundamental improvement of Staking 2.0 is the new requirement that Staked DHT is now required to be paired with a portion of staked dHEDGE pool tokens, creating a ‘staked position’.
These Staked Positions enable a user to amplify the returns they’re achieving through the pool performance.
This amplification is achieved by a combination of three factors:
- The amount of vDHT,
- The amount of time staked (Duration Bonus), and
- The performance of the invested dHEDGE pool (Performance Bonus)
The overall outcome of this new staking program is designed to:
- Improve the utility of DHT token as a method of boosting investing returns,
- Simplify the earning of governance power, and
- Increase the attractiveness of holding DHT to increase investing returns
An additional feature of this staking mechanism is that rewards are only realized once the staker realizes them via unstaking. Rewards do not accrue cumulatively as per other staking programs. The staker needs to make a claim decision when factors such as pool performance, staked duration and vDHT are optimized to make a claim.
TL;DR
To receive DHT rewards, a user is required to stake a portion of DHT tokens and dHEDGE pool tokens (DHPT). These are ‘paired’ to form a ‘staked position’. This staked position is returned to the staker as a NFT.
1. Has been staked for over 9 months
2. The DHPT performance from start of stake has achieved 50% or over
3. Staked DHT(vDHT) >= 6 times initial dollar value of the paired DHPT
The updated dHEDGE Staking interface features calculators to help users optimize their staked position.
Step by Step
Users create a staked position by staking DHT paired with some DHPT.
Once this staked position is created, three things start happening:
- vDHT starts accruing, starting from 0
- The Duration Bonus starts incrementing, starting from 0, and
- Performance Bonus starts tracking, starting from the current pool performance at staking time.
Multiple of these staked positions can be created using different pool tokens.
Staking rewards are realized when a Staked Position is closed (or ‘unstaked’). Returning the currently eligible DHT rewards to the user. These rewards are tracked constantly in the dHEDGE Staking Portal..
In depth:
vDHT
Once a user opens a staked position via staking DHT with some DHPT, the positioning begins accruing vDHT (voting DHT) over time. vDHT accrues linearly over a 9 month period until a maximum amount of vDHT is accrued, equivalent to the number of DHT staked initially.
e.g. 100 DHT is staked at month 0. vDHT accrues from 0 to 100 vDHT after 9 months.
The primary utility of vDHT is for voting as part of dHEDGE governance. It also factors into calculating DHT staking rewards.
Staking dHEDGE pool tokens
To earn DHT staking rewards a user is required to create a staked position.
A staked position is created when DHPT is staked in a pair with staked DHT. A user can create multiple ‘staked positions’ with different pool tokens, and each one will be represented by an individual NFT (ERC721) - similar to the way UniV3 LP pairs are represented.
The amount of DHT rewards a staked position receives varies with two main factors: the amount of time the position has been staked for (Duration Bonus), and the investing return that pool has returned since being staked (Performance Bonus)
- The Duration Bonus is a linearly increasing factor from 0 to 1, which increases with time until maxing out at 9 months.
- The Performance Bonus is a linearly increasing factor from 0 to 1, which increases with the returns of a pool performance(starting from the time it is staked). This maxes out if/when a pool achieves 50% returns. (e.g. 10% pool performance = a Performance Bonus of 0.2. Negative pool performance attracts a 0 Performance bonus, which multiplies out to 0 DHT rewards.
The ratio of vDHT to DHPT is also important. To optimize DHT returns, a staked position must supply a minimum of 6x vDHT to the initial dollar value of the staked pool tokens. For instance, if staking $1000 worth of Stablecoin Yield, maximum DHT rewards are realized once the staked position accrues 6000 vDHT or more.
In the below equation, S needs to be greater than or equal to 6 for max rewards.
In the case where this ratio decreases, accrued rewards will be reduced by the same ratio.
The Staking Ratio is a linear scale from 0 to 1 which is the ratio of:
S = vDHT / (DHPT * 6)
Therefore:
Where:
S = Staking Ratio
vDHT = Voting DHT
p = Performance Bonus
t = Duration Bonus
E = Emissions Rate
The Emissions Rate is variable to control the flow of emissions over time. The default value is 1.0.
However, for the first $1M of locked dHEDGE pool tokens, the Emissions rate will be boosted 50% to 1.5. Once this $1M cap is reached, the Emissions rate will drop back to 1.0.
When DHPT is unstaked, the DHT rewards are calculated and will begin a 7 day linear vest. These can be claimed at any time.
The potential return can be easily calculated by using the integrated calculator:
Sunset of DHT Staking and Performance Mining
Once boost staking is live, DHT staking on ETH mainnet will be depreciated, along with Performance Mining on all chains. All stakers who previously locked DHT will be able to claim the underlying DHT along with any outstanding cumulative rewards from both staking and performance mining.
Stay tuned to updates via Twitter, Email, and Discord.
More About dHEDGE
dHEDGE is a decentralized asset management protocol connecting the world’s best investment managers with investors on the blockchain in a permission less, non-custodial, trustless fashion. dHEDGE aims to democratize the investing experience leveraging Blockchain technology.
Supported by some of the biggest names in crypto, including Framework Ventures, BlockTower Capital, DACM, Maple Leaf Capital, Cluster Capital, Lemniscap, LD Capital, IOSG Ventures, NGC Ventures, Bitscale Capital, Divergence Ventures, Genblock Capital, Trusted Volumes, Altonomy, Continue Capital, The LAO, bitfwd (比特未来) and Loi Luu, Co-Founder and CEO of Kyber Network,
Join the dHEDGE community on Discord, Twitter, Telegram English language, Telegram Chinese language and on WeChat.