Incentive Campaigns

Incentivize Traders to Use Your Token on Lynx

Incentive campaigns enable protocols to flexibly distribute rewards to traders that utilize their token as collateral on Lynx. Running an incentive campaign can help stimulate the amount of trading fees generated by your token on Lynx and increase its adoption as a settlement asset in the perpetuals space.

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How it Works

Incentive campaigns operate in rounds, distributing rewards from the start of the round (Monday 00:00 UTC) until the end of the round (the following Monday 00:00 UTC). At this point, a new round begins and the incentive pool to be distributed resets. Partners can run incentive campaigns for as many rounds as they’d like, and can start/finish reward distribution at any point in time. Although the current duration for each round is one week, this parameter can be changed.

To start an incentive campaign, protocols specify:

• Collateral Asset: The token that traders must trade with to qualify for incentives

• Reward Token: The token that will be distributed as rewards (all ERC-20 tokens supported)

• Max Weekly Distribution: The amount of tokens to be distributed each round

Protocols can tailor the distribution of rewards each round according to various metrics, with two types of incentive programs currently supported on Lynx: Fee Rebates and P&L Bonus.

Fee Rebates

Description: Protocols can reward traders based on the amount of trading fees they have paid. Traders can get refunded up to 100% of their trading fees (excluding any funding or interest payments), or even more.

Caps and Limitations: The protocol administering the incentive program can establish a Maximum Fee Rebate to cap how much any single trader can earn (eg. earn up to 80% of the trading fees paid during the round).

P&L Bonuses

Description: Protocols can reward traders based on their profit and loss performance, incentivizing successful trades. Traders compete to be the most profitable, with the reward pool for each round getting distributed pro-rata across all traders.

Caps and Limitations: Only trades resulting in a positive Trading P&L are counted towards this bonus. At the end of the round, any trader who closed at least one trade with a positive Trading P&L during the round will earn their respective share of the prize pool for that round.

Protocols can run these programs concurrently or independently, splitting the Max Weekly Distribution of rewards across the two programs as desired.