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  • Current Tokenomics Breakdown
  • THALES Tokenomics History
  • Updated distribution to Synthetix stakers
  • Token Buyback and Burn
  • Reduction of Allocation to Thales Core Contributors

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  1. THALES TOKEN

THALES Tokenomics

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THALES is a standard ERC-20 used by the community as the governance token of Thales DAO. Token distribution follows the outline below:

Current Tokenomics Breakdown

8.75% to SNX stakers

  • 4.5% Retroactive distribution for SNX staking (L1 and OP) - Distribution Completed

  • 2% Airdropped to every SNX staker (L1 and OP) - Distribution Completed

18% Thales Core Contributors - Vesting for 3 years starting Q2 2022

15% THALES stakers - Ongoing 3 year long distribution that started Q4 2021 Includes SNX stakers in gamified staking rewards bonus, along with protocol volume bonus

58.25% Growth Fund:

  • 9% to Strategic Partners - 2 year long distribution that started Q4 2021

  • 2% Crowdpooling event on DODO - Distribution Completed

  • 1% Initial DODO LP reward - Distribution Completed

  • 46.25% to ThalesDAO treasury

    • 18% Distributed to Treasury on TGE to be used as ad-hoc Growth incentives

THALES Tokenomics History

The Thales governance structure has modified the original distribution plan to improve long-term alignment with the Thales protocol and DAO

The original distribution plan from 2021 was as follows:

35% to SNX stakers

  • 18% Ongoing SNX staking distribution

  • 15% Retroactive distribution for SNX staking (L1 and OP)

  • 2% Airdropped to every SNX staker (L1 and OP)

30% Growth fund

  • 18% ThalesDAO treasury to fund further development

  • 9% to Strategic Partners

  • 2% Crowdpooling event on DODO

  • 1% Distributed over 20 weeks for LPs on DODO THALES/ETH pool 2

20% Thales Core Contributors

15% THALES stakers

This original distribution has gone through 4 major improvements and modifications:

Updated distribution to Synthetix stakers

Part of the initial tokenomics plan included 35% of the THALES total supply to be distributed to SNX stakers to ensure a long-term alignment between Thales and Synthetix communities. Subsequent TIPs (Thales Improvement Proposals) introduced changes to the protocol to amended this distribution.

When TIP-37 was approved by Thales governance, the THALES token was effectively distributed to SNX stakers as follows:

  • 4,500,000 THALES to retroactive SNX stakers

  • 2,250,000 THALES to ongoing SNX stakers

  • 2,000,000 THALES to any SNX staker via one-off airdrop

After TIP-37 was implemented approx. 26,250,000 THALES tokens were returned to ThalesDAO treasury.

Token Buyback and Burn

Reduction of Allocation to Thales Core Contributors

2.25% SNX staking distribution up until implementation of - Distribution Completed

2% sent back to treasury from disengaged Thales Core Contributor ()

26.25% reallocated to Treasury from termination of SNX rewards ()

You can find a more detailed explanation of THALES tokenomics in this .

paused the retroactive distribution to SNX stakers as part of the introduction of gamified staking by TIP-17

gave a deadline for claiming the one-off airdrop. Unclaimed THALES were returned to the treasury of ThalesDAO.

, championed by Kain (Synthetix co-founder) effectively stopped the vesting of retroactive distribution for SNX stakers, and forfeited his own allocation as the largest SNX staker for the greater good of Thales protocol.

In May 2022, the idea of utilizing funds (a safeguard smart contract that takes a fee from AMM buys and sells) to start a buyback and burn program for the THALES token was specified on . This program was subsequently modified by , increasing the buyback frequency, and paused Buyback and Burn. Buyback and Burn was resumed thanks to .

Buyback and Burn was implemented on Arbitrum with .

As explained in , after a Thales Core Contributor stopped contributing and communicating with the rest of the team, the situation was shared with the community-at-large and it was decided by governance to re-allocate his future THALES tokens, send back 2% to ThalesDAO treasury, and reduce the Thales Core Contributor part of the distribution from 20% to 18%.

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