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OLP Reward Allocations to Markets and Institutional Liquidity Providers |
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Part of the changes implemented for epoch 43 include a fully discretionary dynamic reward to bootstrap liquidity for certain markets at specific times. Following the exact same calculations detailed in reward-allocations-1.md, and the classic formula/scoring methodology to determine a liquidity provider's share of the total reward for a market, this will be accomplished through the concept of Child Epochs.
Child Epochs are flexible in that they are not constrained by the typical 00:00 UTC starting/ending point for a pair to exist in a Primary Epoch. Child Epochs can begin or end at any time within a Primary Epoch, though they cannot span across multiple epochs.
Rewards for Child Epochs will be clearly defined. All eligible OLP participants can accrue pair-specific rewards for Child Epochs, even if they are not otherwise earning rewards for that pair. Of course, a liquidity provider's participation in the Child Epoch implies participation in the Primary Epoch, even if just opportunistically for that specific time period. Rewards for Child Epochs are visible on the OLP dashboard just below the overall rewards for the Primary Epoch.