Presentation given at CryptoEconDay '22 in Lisbon. Slides viewable below or here.
Description:
The explosion of the vote escrow (VE) tokenomics design pioneered by Curve has generated intricate markets around the value of voting power.
This talk will cover:
The different layers of governance and tokenomics that have been formed around the ve model;
The main DEXes and respective ecosystems employing it (Curve, Balancer, Velodrome);
The two main types of markets that have developed around bribes;
The three sides of ve bribing markets and the incentives of each side;
The techniques being explored to optimize participation in these markets by each type of participant;
Extracting lessons from the above on incentives and governance design spaces in DeFi.
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