I’ll be straight up honest here, I have zero appetite for adding additional cost on top of the existing methodologist allocation. Period.
7.5% of total supply to methodologist is sufficient. If the entire methodologist program can be restructured, then you have my ear. If any additional cost to the community is put forward, I am dead against that. A methodologist trying to position their product to benefit from an alternative system doesn’t sit well with me. So, instantly I am on the back foot based on the proposals origins.
If I am perfectly honest here, the streaming fees alone should be a sufficient incentive to partner with the Index Coop community. The Index Coop community is the moat that can not be forked. Products are more successful with Index Coop as a partner because of the community that is Index Coop. DATA will be more successful with Index Coop and I believe Index Coop can grow the pie significantly larger than other partners could. This means the streaming fees nominal USD value going to the methodologist is larger than it otherwise would. If the streaming fees are enough, then please see the methodologist program as cream with a cherry on top.
I understand the current system means new products need more AUM to receive the same reward as those that created AUM earlier in Index Coops life time. But if we want to consider a proposal linking contributor rewards to early value add tasks, (ref different forum post) then methodologist that added early value which enabled the Index Coop to become the reputable partner it is today are due higher rewards.
Also, by linking the bonus like program to un-incentivised supply seems rational at first glance. But this approach is somewhat front running a community lead direction which is to move away from liquidity mining. I feel the community is heading in a direction to eliminate inefficient incentivises anyway.