Ignas | DeFi Research
Ignas | DeFi Research

@DefiIgnas

11 Tweets Apr 05, 2023
1/ Rarible is the 1st NFT marketplace to adopt veTokenomics.
It comes at a crucial point.
Daily trading volume has dropped to just $425 USD and only 146 traded in the past 24 hours.
Will $veRari help to reverse the trend?
2/ @rarible launched as an #NFT marketplace, but recently switched to an NFT aggregation model.
The reason is clear from the chart below.
The purple color representing Rarible marketshare is not even visible.
3/ Last year Rarible generated $99.4M in trading volume, but in the past 30 days only $277k.
Number of users has dropped significantly, together with new NFT mints.
To be fair, the bear market has been tough for OpenSea and LooksRare as well.
4/ To differentiate itself from competitors Rarible supports Tezos, Flow and just launched on Immutable X.
Yet it's surprising that Rarible switched to veTokenomics for its DAO.
veToken model has been gaining popularity, but mainly among #DeFi protocols.
Why? πŸ‘‡
5/ The motivation behind veRARI is:
β€’ Greater voting power for long-term lockers
β€’ Direct on-chain voting and proposal execution
So, the goal is to exchange short-term liquidity for more privileges within the RARI DAO.
6/ As most of veToken projects, Rari made some adjustments to the original Curve's veCRV model:
β€’ They introduced 'Cliff' which serves as a period of β€œhard-locking” during which no locked $RARI is released.
β€’ Max lock period is 2 years.
7/ Besides giving greater voting power to the long term holders, other benefits include:
β€’ 0% seller fees
β€’ Prime badge on Rarible
β€’ Private Discord access
But I guess we will see one more perk added soon...
8/ That extra perk should be higher liquidity mining rewards.
The DAO voted to incentivize NFT listing and buying with 420,000 $RARI ($900k USD) over the period of 1 month.
Maybe veRARI holders should receive higher rewards?
In any case, rewards are juicy.
9/ What's more (a bit of alpha here), RARI DAO passed a vote on retroactive $RARI airdrop.
Eligible users would receive 100 $RARI ($215 USD) each, which would include them into Prime membership program.
Airdrop is aimed at supporting loyal community members.
@OlimpioCrypto πŸ‘€
10/ So despite falling trading volume and decline in users, Rarible is trying to reverse the trend.
Launch of NFT aggregator, veRARI, Liquidity mining, airdrops and more to come.
Will it be enough?
Fingers crossed 🀞
11/ Do you think switching to veTokenomics was a good choice?
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