The version of this idea submitted to the GMC is at Round 7 - GMC Call for Bounty Applications - Deadline is December 10 - #2 by epineph
I’d like to submit two ideas:
Myso loans
The core of this idea is to use loans for folks that don’t want RPL exposure. The loans are long term, and not subject to liquidation. To soft-force staking the borrowed RPL, we use a “bad” fee with the promise of reimbursement to a good fee level if used in the desired way. The core benefit of this idea is that it needs ZERO smart contract changes in the protocol.
Rent-or-stake
The core of this idea is that folks can run minipools either by staking RPL or by paying a one-time fee (to RPL stakers) to run for two years. Because the fee goes to stakers, more renting makes staking more attractive so we get some auto-balancing.
Note that neither of the ideas above change the “equivalent protocol fee” we currently have. In order to compete effectively with the above, we’d also have to modify that by reducing the minimum bond as a percentage of borrowed ETH.