@Bedrock
queued my veBR for unstaking a few days ago. the interface confirmed it. four weeks until exit. looked straightforward.
then i started thinking about what that four-week window actually is or, wait, more precisely what it isn't. governance power: gone at queue. yield boost: gone at queue. BR price exposure: fully intact for four weeks. the "no hard lock" flexibility bedrock markets is real at entry. but the exit creates a window where you carry the asset's full downside with none of its protocol upside. 🔒
the veBR model is genuinely better than hard-lock alternatives. competitors freeze capital with no exit path at all. four weeks is not that.
but NFT bridge periods in 2021 looked flexible too assets in transit, counted nowhere, exposed to moves you couldn't act on.
there is a version of this where i'm wrong. if bedrock maintains partial yield or governance weight during the warm-up window, the dead zone closes entirely.
they haven't published that. which means the instant liquidity promise sits four weeks away from holders carrying idle bitcoin exposure with no on-chain proof of offsetting benefit.