fk yes
This is an incredible idea and will lead to much more dollar for dollar impact on ARB incentives. I wish Offchain Labs or a DAO council was more actively helping curate LPs.
I’m opposed to this as a requirement, I think it will have an unintended effect. we want to spin up new innovative protocols and start flywheels like the post calls for. The cold start of getting from 0 → $10m for a new protocol is very competitive right now. For those unaffiliated, most new protocols that succeed right now get the first $10m in TVL almost entirely added by VCs who are invested or LPs being directly bribed under the table to add short term liquidity. Obviously, neither of those demonstrates potential for real growth.
One of the single most impactful things we can do to massively boost TVL and spot trading is help new protocols break out of the cold start chicken-egg problem. This will attract a ton of talent and defi apps to the network who are currently being scalped every single day with extremely small incentives to deploy elsewhere.
For example, there are dozens of teams planning to deploy on unichain instead of arbitrum over $7.5k grants. thats basically nothing.
under these proposed requirements your example of an incentive failure, MUX (and several others) would qualify. But Dolomite (one of the most recent hugest successes, shoutout to the real builders and innovators over there) would not because it has <$5M tvl for over a year after launch.
Something to consider.