Proposal Name: Add $APE Compounder button at https://app.apestake.io/
Proposal Category: Core: Brand Decision
Abstract
This AIP provides an auto-compounding public good to the $APE community by adding a link in the ApeCoin site to direct users to an interface to stake $APE, and get back an auto-compounding $sAPE token. The Compounder will support the basic $APE pool.
Team Description
Pendle is a DeFi protocol that enables the permissionless tokenization and trading of yield, allowing users to purchase assets at a discount or long yield. To date, Pendle has facilitated $350M of trading volume and amassed $70M of TVL at its peak. The protocol is also backed by a lineup of renowned VCs which include Mechanism Capital, Spartan Capital, Alliance, Hashkey Capital and more.
The team consists of former team members of reputable DeFi projects such as Kyber and imToken. Pendle also prides itself on its capable Dev team, which is composed of multiple Math and Informatic Olympiad winners and ICPC World Finalists who are deeply experienced in blockchain.
Motivation
ApeCoin staking is cool. You stake $APE, you earn $APE - simple, straightforward, beautiful. With the release of ApeCoin staking, the team at Pendle wanted the process of staking and compounding to be made much easier. The Pendle $APE Compounder is intended to be an absolutely free-to-use public good, built for Apes by Apes.
No fees, no charges.
Staking on the Pendle $APE Compounder is really just as simple as clicking on one button. Simply input the amount of $APE youâd like to stake. Approve and confirm the transaction and thatâs it.
Similarly, unstaking is also extremely straightforward. Input the amount of $APE to be unstaked, approve, confirm, and youâre done!
The motivation of this AIP is to provide the above seamless experience by including a link in the app.apestake.io site to direct users to the APE Compounder UI.
Rationale
The problem with native $APE staking is that it doesnât compound. This means, if you want to hit the maximum potential of your $APE, you need to be manually claiming and re-staking your rewards all the time.
Thatâs way too much effort, especially for a bunch of rich, futuristic bored apes who want to and should remain bored.
Staking should be fuss-free, low-effort. With the Pendle Compounder, $APE holders will be able to compound rewards passively. Do less, earn more.
Key Terms
Auto-compounding â when yield farming rewards (in this case, $APE) are automatically harvested and re-added to the staking pool to earn higher APY.
Specifications
Kindly see this pull request for the code implementation on Pendle. https://github.com/pendle-finance/pendle-core-v2/pull/219
The APE Compounder contracts are audited by WatchPug. The audit can be found here.
Specifically:
- The Pendle team will deploy the $APE Compounder contracts (as taken from the PR above) to Ethereum mainnet
- The Pendle team will create a dedicated UI on app.pendle.finance for users to auto-compound their ApeCoin
- The UI will be intuitive enough for users to navigate staking/unstaking their ApeCoin
- Will request the Horizen Labs team to possibly create a link button in the app.apestake.io page to direct users to the $APE Compounder
Steps to Implement
Deployment of the contracts, maintenance of the UI, and development costs will all be shouldered by the Pendle team and will be given to the $APE community as a public good.
The Horizen Labs team will just need to implement the link button on app.apestake.io as requested in this AIP.
Timeline
- The Pendle team has already deployed the $APE Compounder as of this writing (announcement can be found here)
- The Pendle will look into collaborating with an engineer or representative from the Horizen Labs team in order to add the link button on app.apestake.io
Overall Cost
$0