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Honestly, I was this close to aping into the BR airdrop hunt last night. 😅 Spent like 2 hours staring at the docs, trying to figure out how to lock for veBR without messing up. Then I just closed the laptop. Something felt off. I've been burned by this exact play before. Everyone's hyping Bedrock's PoSL as the next big thing — stake BR, get veBR, point those juicy emissions to your pools, easy money. But I've seen this movie. It's called the Curve Wars, and it didn't end well for the little guy.
Here's the problem nobody's talking about: PoSL uses a gauge-based voting system where veBR holders point emissions. But Curve's veCRV model — the exact blueprint here — got completely wrecked by whales. Big players locked for the max 4 years, hoarded governance power, and turned the DAO into a playground for the elite. Proposals got killed not based on merit, but on which whale coalition had more votes. Governance capture was real.
So what stops the same thing happening with veBR? Bedrock's docs say "the longer you lock $BR , the more voting power you accumulate." It's the exact same seed. And with a total BR supply of 1 billion and 20% allocated for community airdrops, the potential for extraction is massive.
But there might be one crucial difference. Unlike Curve's brutal 4-year lock, Bedrock's PoSL has no forced lockups. It uses a 4-week unstaking queue + a 2-week cooldown. That's a game-changer. It means if you smell centralization creeping in, you can actually leave. No prison sentence for your capital. That might just be the escape hatch Curve never had.
Look, I'm not saying @Bedrock is doomed. I'm saying these mechanisms have broken before. The 4-week queue gives it a fighting chance. But I've learned not to trust shiny new flywheels until I've seen them survive a real bear market. #Bedrock hit $686M TVL that's impressive. But will the retail guy still be pointing gauges in 2 years, or will it just be a handful of whales voting themselves richer? What's your take is ve(3,3) fixable, or is it permanently broken for small holders? 🧐
$BTW $OPN
Here's the problem nobody's talking about: PoSL uses a gauge-based voting system where veBR holders point emissions. But Curve's veCRV model — the exact blueprint here — got completely wrecked by whales. Big players locked for the max 4 years, hoarded governance power, and turned the DAO into a playground for the elite. Proposals got killed not based on merit, but on which whale coalition had more votes. Governance capture was real.
So what stops the same thing happening with veBR? Bedrock's docs say "the longer you lock $BR , the more voting power you accumulate." It's the exact same seed. And with a total BR supply of 1 billion and 20% allocated for community airdrops, the potential for extraction is massive.
But there might be one crucial difference. Unlike Curve's brutal 4-year lock, Bedrock's PoSL has no forced lockups. It uses a 4-week unstaking queue + a 2-week cooldown. That's a game-changer. It means if you smell centralization creeping in, you can actually leave. No prison sentence for your capital. That might just be the escape hatch Curve never had.
Look, I'm not saying @Bedrock is doomed. I'm saying these mechanisms have broken before. The 4-week queue gives it a fighting chance. But I've learned not to trust shiny new flywheels until I've seen them survive a real bear market. #Bedrock hit $686M TVL that's impressive. But will the retail guy still be pointing gauges in 2 years, or will it just be a handful of whales voting themselves richer? What's your take is ve(3,3) fixable, or is it permanently broken for small holders? 🧐
$BTW $OPN
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