Cosmic Climb - Leaderboard for GM NFT Holders 🚀

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1. Introduction

GM NFT upgrades have hit a wall and there are not many people upgrading to higher tiers. Why? No clear incentive to keep spending such higher values of B3tr for example ~1M $B3tr for Uranus feels massive without further utility. Rewards are static and one-and-done, not compounding your commitment. Plus, tier value depends on how many upgrades, if everyone’s at Moon tier, higher tiers lose their purpose. My solution would be a Dynamic and Action-Driven Leaderboard, "Cosmic Climb”, a weekly on-chain ranking of top 500 GM holders by Score.

2. Objective

This proposal aims to address key points:

  • Boost Upgrade Adoption: Make higher tiers (e.g., Neptune’s 10x multiplier) a clear path to superior rewards, countering the “static burn” perception and encouraging quadratic progression.
  • More Utility to the GM NFTs: Addition of action-based payouts to the weekly payouts.
  • Enhance Network Effects: As more upgrade, competition intensifies, raising the value floor for all (e.g., a Uranus holder outpaces Moon grinders, pulling others up).
  • Gamify Sustainability: Integrate real-world impact via VeBetterDAO.
  • Governance Synergy: Reward top climbers with bonus $B3tr, deepening DAO engagement without centralization risks.

3. Ranking System

The leaderboard ranks the top 500 GM holders (scalable via future votes) based on a transparent, verifiable score.

Core Formula: Score = VeActions × Tier Multiplier

  • VeActions = VOT3 + On-chain verified actions (reset weekly for fairness)
    • VOT3 holding on the snapshot: 0.1pt/VOT3.
    • On-chain verified actions: 100pts/Actions

Points are awarded per week, per wallet, and strict caps on certain dapps like Pause Your Carbon should be added to prevent dominance, namely the square root (i.e. √(number of actions in Pause your Carbon)).

The GM NFT held at the time of the snapshot should also be taken into the account (same time as VOT3) to prevent farming by sending the NFT to different wallets.

  • Tier Multipliers (official current weights, upgradeable via DAO):
Tier Multiplier (original multiplier) Multiplier for the Cosmic Climb Leaderboard (Decelerating Rise) B3TR Needed
Moon 1.1x 1.00x 5k
Mercury 1.2x 2.26x 13k
Venus 1.5x 3.00x 25k
Mars 2.0x 3.52x 50k
Jupiter 2.5x 3.93x 125k
Saturn 3.0x 4.26x 250k
Uranus 5.0x 4.54x 1M
Neptune 10.0x 4.78x 3M
Galaxy 25.0x 5.00x 13M

Example: A Saturn holder (4.26x) with 1000 Veaction pts scores 4,260, outranking a Neptune (4.78x) with just 200 pts, but upgrades tip the scale for equals.

4. Rewards Distribution

Source: 2% of the weekly allocation (which corresponds to ~74k $B3TR weekly atm), this would come from the GM Pool rewards (which at the moment is 5%, and after this proposal would be 3%):

Bracket Allocations (Capped at 20/20/30/30 split for equity):

Bracket Users $B3TR Allocated (using 74K $B3TR as an example) % of Pool (Capped at) Avg/User
Top 10 10 14,800 20% ~1,480
Ranks 11-50 40 14,800 20% ~370
Ranks 51-200 150 22,200 30% ~148
Ranks 201-500 300 22,200 30% ~74
Total 500 74,000 100% -

Reward Formula per Rank (r = 1 to 500):

Distribution uses a power-law decay for smooth, monotonic tapering, no jumps, just consistent incentive.

Reward(r)=(a/r^b)

Fitted parameters for the example of 74K B3tr:

  • a (scaling factor) ≈3668.55,
  • b (decay exponent; lower ( b ) = flatter/fairer curve)≈ 0.6803

Post-compute: Scale array to exact total, round integers, add remainder to tops.

Sample Top 20 Payouts:

Rank $B3TR Rank $B3TR
1 3,668 11 717
2 2,289 12 676
3 1,737 13 640
4 1,428 14 609
5 1,227 15 581
6 1,084 16 556
7 976 17 533
8 891 18 513
9 822 19 494
10 765 20 477

5. Implementation

This new leaderboard would appear in the main page of VebetterDAO similarly to the round leaderboard. And this leaderboard needs to respect the signal admin. If a wallet gets signaled by a dapp, it cannot get rewards from the leaderboard, this way we can avoid bad actors from exploiting it.

6. Risks & Mitigations

One possible risk is sybil attacks where malicious users create multiple wallets to farm actions/ranks, inflating scores artificially however this leaderboard would require the wallets to get the GM NFTs to participate on the leaderboard (and higher GM NFTs) + actions/holding of Vot3.

I’d appreciate any feedback on this proposal. I believe the GM NFTs could benefit from added utility to make them more engaging. There’s also an ongoing discussion in the VebetterDAO Hub Discord, if that’s more convenient for you.

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Great idea generally, and IMO part of a process to give back some value to GMs, which completely lost their sense after “restoring the GM NFT system” proposal was executed

There are some safety measures to be taken into account, like:

  • Taking a snapshot of the NFTs holdings (same time as VOT3) to prevent farming by sending the NFT to different wallets;

Also, i like VeActions taking into account VOT3 + actions, but we need to understand what we really want to incentivise. With the current formula,
1M B3TR = 100 actions

There is no silver bullet but since GM holders tends to have lot of VOT3 as well, this means the actions won’t make lot of difference for the leaderboard IMO. We should do some simulations

Also, i would probably merge the GM pool within this system, since it may become redundant
Final consideration around 6. - “Free” Farming is not possible since there is a quite high price to pay to get a GM. To “farm” this leaderboard, we will instead have more GM demand which is something wanted, since it means more B3TR locked in the treasury.

Good job!

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Thanks for your feedback! I’ve just updated the proposal with the following changes:

1) GM NFTs are now officially included
GM NFTs held in the wallet at the exact same snapshot time as VOT3 will be counted. I had always assumed this would be the case, but explicitly writing it in prevents any farming.

2)Two additional adjustments based on your input (big thanks to BreakingBallz and Genesis on Discord):

  • VOT3 weight increased from 0.01 → 0.1 points;
  • The 2% allocation will now come from the GM Pool instead of the voting and dapps pool (probably people would accept it more than takin from other sources).

Appreciate you all helping make this proposal stronger! Let me know if anything else needs tweaking :handshake:

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Some improvement thoughts:

  • VOT3 holding on the snapshot: 0.1pt/VOT3 –> Is there a risk of just holding VOT3 and doing no actions gets as many points as lesser VOT3 holders doing many actions? Perhaps a fixed rate of 0.1pts should instead be non linear, in that the points diminish after some thresholds are met. e.g. 0.1pts for first 5000 VOT3, 0.05 for next 10,000 VOT3 etc. This might need some analysis…
  • Should there be a qualifier to be in the top 10 - for example minimum actions threshold
  • Dormancy penalties for “set & forget” holders
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In faireness, I would simply replace the gm pool with this one, taking the entire 5% then

In comparison to the previous system, this simply means owners will get more rewards based on how many tokens + actions they do in one week, which makes totally sense

If you ask me, it’s a no loss, since most people don’t even notice how that pool affects their weekly rewards. That pool is simply to be removed since it provides no real visible incentive to hold the tokens

We also need to keep a good proportion between points by actions & by holding vot3 in order to incetivise both. ie either use the chain a lot or hold the tokens to get the most out of it

In case we want to scale this out even further in the future, we can simply:

  • extend the leaderboard to non-gm holders as well, and use them as multipliers for the points;
  • allocate more % of weekly allocations to this leaderboard

But better to keep this simple and see how it performs

Eventually as said, this is the way most things around rewards should go in the DAO, including apps allocations which may need a revamp as well

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That’s a really interesting idea, introducing diminishing returns for larger VOT3 holdings while still rewarding active participation on the DAO. After reading your feedback yesterday and @akanoce comment:

We also need to keep a good proportion between points by actions & by holding vot3 in order to incetivise both. ie either use the chain a lot or hold the tokens to get the most out of it.

…it got me thinking: what if we combined diminishing base rewards for holding more VOT3 with a multiplier boost based on weekly on-chain activity? Here’s a possible model I put together:

VOT3 Base Rate 25+ actions this week 50+ actions this week 100+ actions this week 200+ actions this week
0 – 10,000 0.10 pts / VOT3 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1
10,001 – 25,000 0.05 pts / VOT3 0.08 0.1 0.1 0.1
25,001 – 100,000 0.02 pts / VOT3 0.04 0.06 0.08 0.1
100,001 – 1,000,000+ 0.005 pts / VOT3 0.01 0.02 0.04 0.08

So for example, a Mercury holder could actually outpace a Saturn holder if this does not do any actions:

GM NFT Multiplier Actions VOT3 Total Points
Mercury 2.26 200 50000 56500
Mars 3.52 50 150000 45760
Saturn 4.26 0 900000 30885

As an Example the Saturn Holder, holds 900K Vot3 but 0 actions so the total points would be:

Total Points =(10000x0.1 + 15000x0.05 + 75000x0.02 + 800000x0.005) x 4.26 =30885pts

I think this is a nice balance: it protects long-term holders while strongly rewarding real usage and activity. And whales will have to do actions otherwise they could be last in the leaderboard.

What are your thoughts on this?

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I support this, but we should review the base rate. Eventually the goal is also to incentivise holding VOT3

10,000 VOT3 is quite a low amount if u hold a GM, so i would forecast most higher tiers node holding at least 100k (anyone with some data?)
So i would probably make the base rate less aggressive when holding more votes

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As @reheat said on discord, and I agree 100%.. The most important righ now is to fix the GM NFTs as these feel useless and there are not reason to keep upgrading. Holding VOT3 is already important for your voting rewards, that is already a good reason to hold it (this would be just a plus).

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the price of the GM NFTs imho is still quite high, for myself the next upgrade is $1000, but the ROI of that is 2-3 years - at the moment B3TR is volatile and that investment is risky… i would say ROI is what is holding back upgrades … its easier to sell b3tr, than accumulates for 6+ months only to have to spend ur entire earnings on an NFT.

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Unfortunately, pricing will have to wait for another proposal. I hear you, however the system has been feeling quite monotonous, and this proposal is designed to add some utility and break the cycle. If this proposal goes well, we can probably look at pricing and increasing the allocation of this.

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Late to the party here on discourse, but have been paying close attention on discord chat.

:one: - really enjoying seeing this unfold and develop- it’s great to see some life around what is a great idea for the GM NFTs

:two: - I do like that way the VOT3 count has been embraced here on discourse, on first reading it felt a nice advancement… and yet, I would lean towards weighing the proposal more towards the original focus of GM NFT enhancement. Discovering the ratio to which, GM NFT purchases were encouraged first - and then VOT3 holding played a solid but secondary factor, would be ideal.

:three: - would agree with DaveL’s comment that GM NFTs may perhaps be mispriced for mass adoption. A significant barrier might exist here.

Otherwise, enjoying watching this proposal unfold. Fair play