respect the digging but theres a few key pieces missing here
first off MEGA is literally categorized as "Simple Earn" on binance's app (Principal Protected tag), not Super Earn. binance has two different earn products and they work very differently
Simple Earn (which MEGA is on) gets its APR from margin and loan demand from traders who borrow the token. the MEGA product rules page on the app literally says "The assets you deposit in Simple Earn may be loaned to other Binance users (e.g. Margin and Crypto Loan products)." thats the yield source
binance's own faq backs this up:
"Subscribing to Simple Earn Flexible Products provides liquidity to Binance's business units for operational purposes, including lending Simple Earn assets to other users via Margin and Loan products. The interest from these products generate yield"
source: https://t.co/22OvNghnoA
Super Earn is the OTHER product specifically designed for project sponsored APRs. binance literally says "Special Rewards, in the form of Special APR or Airdrops, refer to rewards that are fully sponsored by the respective token projects." TON debuted Super Earn in aug 2024. if megaeth was funding the yield it would be under this framework
source: https://t.co/JlSG0X5vnA
so the 12.19% APR is just market driven borrow demand from traders shorting a freshly listed volatile L2 token, thats genuinely normal for new listings
solid effort tho but the earn product specifically isnt the smoking gun imo
Looks like those ICO participants who locked their @megaeth allocations for 12 months also get to join the "Stake for MEGA KPI rewards" fun over at the new staking dashboard: https://t.co/N68OA87z2Y
I assume this applies to all the public MEGA rounds (Sonar, Echo, Fluffles).
Waiting on more details, but it appears your locked/vested $MEGA will by default be staked into the pools along with the rest of the stakers (i.e., those who stake their liquid MEGA).
BUT WON'T THE LOCKED TOKENS EAT ALL THE REWARDS AND ADD TO SELL PRESSURE
No. They will dilute the rewards, yes. But this won't add to the early circulating supply over the first year (and longer, depending on the kind of vesting).
All earned rewards from KPIs will follow the same vesting schedule as the underlying tokens.
So, if your ICO tokens are locked for the next 12 months, all the $MEGA rewards earned from unlocked KPIs will accrue and be released in 12 months at the same time as your locked tokens.
So you get your tokens + a big chunk of KPI-earned rewards added to the pot.
Cool. None of the ICO participants gets left behind. Conviction got you a bigger chunk of tokens, and you can also share in the rewards.
I think this inclusion helps bind everyone closer to the ecosystem: now, there is a good reason for those with long locks to participate more closely in what's going on.
This is a fair way to do it, as locked tokens don't receive liquid rewards until their vesting, so there isn't a supply dump.
It also prevents unfair vesting where large chunks of investor/team supply get the bulk of the reward pool to sell.
We've seen that trick play out with some of the other ecosystems (@LooksRare had this trick, @celestia as well), where 'investors' and 'team' are all locked at TGE, but they are able to stake their huge cheap supply of tokens into the reward pools and get liquid tokens, which they can sell into a tiny circulating supply.
No such tricks here!
With a huge chunk of the ecosystem incentives locked behind KPIs, staking here is far more interesting than the usual "stake and get X%" offers.
Combined with the utility flywheels to build demand for $MEGA, it earns by staking for the KPI unlocks could pay out handsomely IF the ecosystem successfully expands.
megaeth literally cashed you out at the top of the market
today, when you got your money back, they simply gave you a ~2x exit, minimum 1.6x
for the chads who didn’t want to exit, it’s offering unique defi apps to farm with solid incentives
as if that wasn’t enough, they gave the best possible terms to early echo and fluffle investors
they delivered all of this in absolute garbage market conditions. in a dead environment where nobody wanted to touch any altcoin
if you still hate on it after all this, you are a parasite and you need to get the fuck out of this space
thanks for playing
Most chains treat tokens as a financing instrument first and an economic instrument later.
MegaETH reversed that.
We first define what economic activity matters, design the network around increasing it, then make token value depend on the quality of that activity.
Stablecoin + KPI Rewards + Proximity Market -> GDP
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And how I flip these contracts right here in the studio (skrrt)
All I want for my birthday is a fat stack o’ ETH (true)
All I want for my birthday is a fat stack o’ ETH (tell ’em, MegaΞ)
When I die, bury me with the Mega Mafia (tell ’em)
When I die, lay my ashes in a Mega vault (true)
All I want for my birthday is a fat stack o’ ETH (yeah)
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