Create new pools for double farming UNI or SUSHI in addition to LUA

Summary:
Create special Lua fields (pools) that would farm UNI, SUSHI. Each following its eligibility to farm its respective token in addition to lua.

Background:
There are 4 pools in Uniswap currently eligible to earn $UNI for another 33 more days (https://app.uniswap.org/#/uni). The 4 pools are: ETH-DAI, ETH-USDC, ETH-USDT, ETH-WBTC which are the biggest pools in UniSwap in terms of TVL not by chance but believe due to the fact that LP earns additional rewards on top of AMM fee.

Similarly SUSHI-WETH earns SUSHI when staked to sushiswap; It has highest reward multiplier at the moment, and hence the highest TVL there for same reason, believe the rewards would last longer than that of Uni’s.

Motivation:
TVL is one of the biggest asset for luaswap to stay on top of the competition, that is also needed to offer best price/spread for traders and in turns earn fee for the long term LP benefit.
If we are able to provide the similar rewards and furthermore extra Lua rewards, it will be no brainer for the LP (seeking yield) to move to luaswap.

Specification (Implementation Suggestion, Technical Feasibility, etc.):
Users would deposit UNI-v2 LP token to new luaswap field (ie. new double farming field). These new pool would farm UNI and LUA. When LP Token is staked, new codes in luaswap will take note on the user’s share and use the LP token to stake in Uniswap. Farmed UNI could be used to buy LUA which supports LUA price (ideally this can be an automated action done periodically whenever farmed UNI reaching certain threshold). The newly bought LUA can be shared within the pool based on users share.

Some of these new pools will be having very little impermanent loss as compared to Lua pairs, so we can also impose a smaller Lua reward multiplier for such double farming field, e.g. 0.2x multipler so as not to dilute too much of current Lua rewards for the other normal (single farming) pools.

Believe the specification above is technically doable but will take some development time. Certain things need to be done really fast, as you can see the UNI campaign will finish soon in 33 days for the time the proposal was written. If we can implement in let say one week time from now, we still have 30 days to double farm which is still very very good.

Similar steps can be for SUSHI-WETH, we can double farm LUA and SUSHI. So development should take into consideration and make this extensible for others.

Note:
This proposal takes into considerations of some existing ideas from other threads, discussions in telegram, and other public information available. Not diminishing the credit of the original in any way, believe the purpose is for the biggest and greatest of luaswap. Feel free to comment and discuss further to improve this proposal.

Hi Ben,

Quick thoughts on double farming.

Pro: Farming UNI, so extra rewards

Con: This does not work anymore when LuaSwap does migration and launching its own protocol in October (in about 2 weeks).

Vision: are we building a liquidity protocol or a farming specialist? We should prioritize on features that follows our product vision. A lot of token holders only focus on tokens, and pay no attention to the eventual product and its sustainability which is a short-term thinking. There are projects out there that focus exclusively on farming, and maximizing farming return. They will work like crypto hedge funds that jump from one tactics to another. (Yearn, harvest.finance etc.), but that is not LuaSwap is originally about. https://medium.com/luaswap/introducing-luaswap-org-7e6ff38beefc

hmm quite true about this part. the LP token then would be LuaSwap LP Token, and we cant just restake it there.

works for yearn as you pointed it out.

I think it is still possible to take the underlying assets and use that to LP to uni and stake, believe that is how yearn’s vault would have it implemented if that proposal get passed there.

Not sure if it is still worth considering … as increase TVL seems to be the most important thing right now

I thought it through again. This is not possible. If we use underlying asset to provide liquidity to uniswap, then we will be losing this liquidity in luaswap hence defeating the purpose as the liquidity cant be used for luaswap swapping facility as such… So I agree with Long that after migration liquidation this will be useless :frowning:

I have to withdraw this proposal myself.