VSP Token: Supply, Issuance, & Rewards

In addition to the yields generated by the pools, users can also earn the native VSP token. Users earn VSP tokens in two ways: participating in Vesper pools, or locking VSP. These are described below.

VSP is dripped to users (a little is issued to them every block), and held by the smart contract until the user withdraws from the pool, which triggers the contract to deliver the VSP to their address.

Earning VSP: Vesper Pools

Each Vesper pool is assigned an amount of VSP tokens, and these are distributed to participants proportionate to the size of their stake in the pool. New pools are incentivized after launch.

These VSP tokens are an extra reward on top of the passive real yield the pool generates.

Earning VSP: Locking VSP for esVSP

By locking your VSP, you'll receive esVSP. Much like how depositing ETH yields vETH, locking VSP tokens gives you esVSP (ERC-721).

After withdrawal and yield fees are collected in the pool (ETH, BTC, USDC, etc.), they go to the Treasury Box and are used to buy back VSP on the open market. This VSP is delivered to esVSP participants and can be claimed in the dashboard.

Vesper Launch Details

Supply Dynamics

At launch, Vesper will have a total supply of 10,000,000 VSP:

• 6.5M VSP (65%) goes to the community, which includes 2.55M for the Incentivized Launch Pools, 1M to incentivize liquidity providers, and 2.95M to the Vesper Reserves.

• 3.5M VSP (35%) is for Vesper team, advisors, and strategic partners, which is subject to vesting over twelve months.

The initial policy is to keep the supply at 10 million. Twelve months following public launch (after open beta), the community may vote on whether to burn the admin keys and fix the supply at 10 million forever, or, assign minting ability to a DAO for future management. It is up to the community to decide whether limiting future minting benefits the overall Vesper project. For the first 12 months, any amount of VSP beyond 10 million is locked.

Beta Program

Before the official Vesper launch, there will be a brief beta program where users can deposit funds and participate in the initial Vesper pools. There is no active VSP drip during the beta (as there is after), but average balances across the entire period will be recorded and beta users will receive VSP proportionate to their deposited assets after the conclusion of beta.

450,000 VSP is allocated as beta rewards to be distributed to early users of Vesper's open beta. These rewards will be delivered as a multi-send airdrop to each beta participant's wallet on launch day. No further actions are required for beta participants to be eligible.

Token Emissions

Please note that these emissions are not finalized, and may be subject to change at the discretion of the community. (For more on Vesper’s governance, refer to the documentation’s chapter on Vesper’s decentralization plan.)

• Launch Pools (2,550,000 VSP)

  • 450,000 allocation to pre-launch Beta participants, airdropped at launch

  • 2,100,000 over twelve months, heavily weighted towards the first three months

• Reserves (2,950,000 VSP)

  • Reserves for ecosystem growth and developer/community incentives, as determined by VSP voters

  • NOTE: A small amount of reserves have been leveraged to further boost rewards on Grow Pools.

• Liquidity Providers (1,000,000 VSP)

  • Incentivization for LPs on Uniswap, SushiSwap, 1inch and Loopring (with SushiSwap retaining majority)

  • 1,000,000 distribution over 12 months, heavily weighted towards the first month (and more acutely — the first weeks)

• Team and Advisors (2,500,000 VSP)

  • 208,333 (1/12) unlocked at launch

  • 2,291,667 (11/12) vested with streaming unlock (constant drip each block) for eleven months following launch

• Strategic Partners (1,000,000 VSP)

  • 83,333 (1/12) unlocked at launch

  • 916,667 (11/12) vested with streaming unlock (constant drip each block) for eleven months following launch

Emissions Breakdown

SushiSwap LP rewards for the first month were distributed via Geyser (gysr.io). Months 2-12 are distributed through a merkle claims process at Pure Finance for liquidity providers who deposit their LP tokens to SushiSwap Onsen (thus receiving $SUSHI rewards as well).

Uniswap LP rewards are distributed via Geyser for the full twelve month duration following the schedule below. You can interact with the Uniswap Geyser here.

1inch LP rewards are distributed through 1inch multi-farming support for those who deposit to 1inch VSP-1inch LP farming. They receive VSP in the same manner as they received 1INCH initially, and 1inch team also has the opportunity to extend their supplied 1inch rewards as well.

Loopring LP rewards are handled through Loopring directly. VSP is rewarded to market makers on the orderbook exchange and follows a formula that multiplies the volume of a user’s buy/sell orders by time-spent within 2% of the market price. You can learn more about Loopring’s orderbook liquidity mining in the post here.

Additionally, users can earn LRC when they trade across the VSP-ETH AMM. A VSP/DAI orderbook will be included soon as well.

Note that the sum of SushiSwap and Uniswap LP rewards is 1,000,000. The additional 107,800 VSP across 1inch and Loopring was funded out of the reserves allocation.

Team, Advisor, and Partner tokens are held in a Sablier contract. Recipients can interface with the contract to claim VSP as frequently or as seldom as they prefer. They receive 1/n of their total VSP allocation over the entire n blocks of their vesting period.

Below outlines VSP emissions. Several assumptions are made:

• All tokens are claimed as soon as they are available.

• No additional VSP is granted from reserves.

• Existing reserve holdings are not counted towards emissions.

Vesper launched on 2/17/2021

UPDATED 8/16/2021 (VIP-10: Emissions Upgrade)

From 8/13/21 - 8/16/21, vVSP holders voted unanimously in favor of an overhaul to VSP emissions to platform participants.

VIP-10 outlines a new system for emissions that utilizes two global VSP allocations: one for all Vesper Pool participants and one for all liquidity providers. Each Vesper pool earns a portion of the global allocations depending on TVL, and each market receives a share based on the volume traded. These metrics are polled each month and weights are updated accordingly for the coming month.

This approach enables Vesper to continue to incentivize usage of new products without necessitating additional emissions beyond what is currently accounted for and agreed upon.

VSP Allocation for Vesper Pools

Each pool is assigned a number of "points" to reflect their weight in the global emissions. The points breakdown is as follows:

• #1 highest TVL pool: 5 points

• 2-3: 4 points

• 4-5: 3 points

• 6-8: 2 points

• 9+: 1 point

New pools will automatically be allocated 3 points for the first month after launch and 2 points for the second month, and are absorbed into the above methodology starting their third month.

VSP Allocation for Vesper Liquidity Providers

Each market is assigned a number of "points" to reflect their trading volume versus other exchanges.

• SushiSwap: 5 points

• #1 highest volume (excluding SushiSwap on ETH Layer 1): 3 points

• 2-3: 2 points

• 4+: 1 point

New markets start with 2 point allocation in their two months, and are absorbed into the above methodology starting their third month.

NOTE: Uniswap v2 LP rewards are immutable through Month 12. Uniswap will be absorbed into this mechanism starting Month 13.

Updated Emissions Breakdown

	Month 7	Month 8	Month 9	Month 10	Month 11	Month 12	Month 13+
Vesper Pools	120,000	90,000	67,500	52,500	40,000	35,000	30,000
Vesper LP	34,500	34,500	34,500	34,500	34,500	34,500	45,000
Uniswap	23,000	23,000	23,000	23,000	23,000	23,000	0

NOTE: See deprecated emissions for total VSP emissions (which remain unchanged). If emissions exceed DAO reserves, vVSP holders can vote to mint more VSP to the reserves at any point in time after Month 12.

Deprecated Emissions (replaced Month 7: 8/16/2021)

	TOTAL	Month 1	Month 2	Month 3	Month 4	Month 5	Month 6	Month 7	Month 8	Month 9	Month 10	Month 11	Month 12
Team	2,000,000	333,334	166,667	166,667	166,667	166,667	166,667	166,667	166,667	166,667	166,667	166,667	0
Partners & Advisors	1,500,000	250,000	125,000	125,000	125,000	125,000	125,000	125,000	125,000	125,000	125,000	125,000	0
vETH	770,000	125,000	150,000	100,000	100,000	75,000	55,000	40,000	30,000	22,500	17,500	13,333	11,667
vUSDC	720,000	125,000	150,000	100,000	50,000	75,000	55,000	40,000	30,000	22,500	17,500	13,333	11,667
vWBTC	770,000	125,000	150,000	100,000	100,000	75,000	55,000	40,000	30,000	22,500	17,500	13,333	11,667
vLINK	75,000	0	0	20,000*	27,500	17,500	10,000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Sushi	600,000	111,000	75,000	69,000	54,000	48,000	36,000	34,500	34,500	34,500	34,500	34,500	34,500
Beta Rewards	450,000	450,000	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Uniswap	431,200	74,000	50,000	82,000**	31,200	32,000	24,000	23,000	23,000	23,000	23,000	23,000	23,000
1inch	100,000	0	16,666	16,666	16,666	16,666	16,666	16,666	0	0	0	0	0
Loopring	7,800	1,300	2,600	2,600	1,300	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Cumulative	7,338,000	1,594,634	2,480,567	3,262,500	3,938,833	4,479,966	4,963,000	5,433,832	5,873,000	6,312,166	6,751,333	7,190,500	7,338,000

NOTE (7/16): Further months emissions are largely a placeholder while ongoing discussion of tokenomics/revenue V2 take shape. *vLINK pool rewards began on April 29th (middle of "month 3"). vLINK rewards breakdown is as follows:

• Month 1 (First thirty days starting Apr 29): 40,000 VSP

• Month 2: 15,000 VSP

• Month 3: 20,000 VSP

**Error in Geyser deployment duplicated VSP rewards for liquidity providers to Uniswap through the duration of month three. Rewards were prorated slightly in month four in response.