DIP-2: Amendment 4

Headline: Adding a new type of boost to weekly rewards

Author: The DIMO Foundation

Submitter(s): The DIMO Foundation [0xCED3c922200559128930180d3f0bfFd4d9f4F123]

Status: Voting (until October 22, 2024 at 16:18 UTC)

Voting URL: Pending

Discussion Forum: Discord #🗳️governance forum

Vote Type: Level 3

Abstract

This amendment gives users the ability to lock up $DIMO tokens to increase their weekly baseline earnings. A user who locks $DIMO in a specified quantity for a specified duration will receive a rewards boost similar to the Streak Level bonus.

The "Lock" boost is similar to the Streak boost, whereby there are four levels that offer 0, 1,000, 2,000, and 3,000 extra weekly points respectively. The Lock Level is determined by the quantity and duration that user locks their $DIMO. This boost is created on a per vehicle basis.

Motivation

Baseline rewards exist to incentivize the development of a large and incentive-aligned network. A DIMO user who accumulates and retains large quantities of $DIMO will inevitably be a more aligned network participant than someone who is not.

Specification

// If passed, this proposal would incorporate the following changes to the Specifications section of DIP-2. These changes build off of DIP-2 amendment 3, assuming this passes. If it fails, the related changes to integration methods would be rolled back and only those new changes shown below will be incorporated:

Note that:

Streak Levels: are tied to the vehicle, which means that swapping out an OBD device or transferring a vehicle to another user will preserve the level for that car; a streak cannot be transferred from one car to another; and vehicles that fail to connect for three consecutive weeks will fall back one streak level.

Lock Levels: are per vehicle (e.g., it would take 8,000 $DIMO to boost two separate vehicles to level 4); may be assigned and unassigned to any car in your account; and can be upgraded at any time, but cannot be downgraded prematurely (e.g., you can roll 500 $DIMO from a level 1 contract that is still locked, add 1,000 more $DIMO, and upgrade it to a new level 2 contract that restarts the lock period).

Connection types: to be considered "comprehensive", an integration must send extensive telemetry data in near real-time. As of the last update of this proposal, the AutoPi, LTE R1 and native Tesla connections qualify as "comprehensive" integrations.

Every box depicting points can stack on one another. This means that a car can have a streak level, a boost level, a software connection, and hardware connection for a maximum 16,000 weekly points. A car must send valid data to qualify for rewards in a given week. If a car isn't driven, it will receive zero $DIMO regardless of any streak or boost.

To be considered "Comprehensive", an integration must send extensive telemetry data in near real-time.

Users who fail to connect for three consecutive weeks will fall back one level.

In the example shown in the table above, Alice earns 2,000 points for having been connected between 21 to 35 weeks, 1,000 points for locking 500 $DIMO for 6 months, 1,000 points for her Limited software connection, and 6,000 points for having comprehensive installed in her vehicle.

Here there are 40,000 cars connected to DIMO and each car generates an average of 6,000 points that week, for a total of 240,000,000 points. Alice's 109,000 points represent 0.004% of the points for that week (109,000 ÷ 240,000,000). Therefore, she earns 46.0441.44 out of the 1,105,000 tokens from this pool (1,105,000 * 0.004%).

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Implementation

If passed, DIP-2 would be updated and these changes implemented once the code is ready, or after the four day timelock, whichever is later. This would be expected to launch by the end of 2024 or early 2025.

Copyright

Copyright and related rights waived via CC0

Citation

Please cite this document as:

The DIMO Foundation, "DIP-2: Amendment 4", October 2024. [Online serial]. Available: [https://github.com/DIMO-Network/DIP]

Changelog

Oct 11, 2024: Updated lock level requirements (decreased the amounts).

Disclaimer

The contract addresses for $DIMO are 0x5fab9761d60419c9eeebe3915a8fa1ed7e8d2e1b on Ethereum and 0xE261D618a959aFfFd53168Cd07D12E37B26761db on Polygon. Please always confirm that you are interacting with these contract addresses and not those of a fraudulent imitator. This proposal may not be enacted if it violates Cayman Islands law. Please triple check that any communications are authentic as it’s common for scammers to try to trick you into sending them crypto or into revealing your private keys.

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