Forced Take-out Solutions

--- tags: Legacy --- # Forced Take-out Solutions ## Problem Statement The cases in which a delegator desires to have their delegations returned but the broker is not unstaking leads to a need for some sort of mechanism to force brokers to return staked funds. ## Classifying the Problem Circumstances - We can define this problem as occuring over a range of possible circumstances - Revenue Generation: Is this broker still generating revenue? - Waiting Time: Is the delegator willing to wait for some amount of time? - Unstake Preference: Does the broker have a preference of which streams are to be unstaked on, and does this preference depend on an amount of time first passing? ## A Note on Coordination with Stream Agreements - The current implementations of the stream agreements penalizes certain forms of unstaking given different conditions such as being too early after it was first staked - There is many ways that exceptions could be made for the mechansims that force pull or something similar - Can this be abused? Could a broker have someone delegate, then call the force stake withdraw and have that get brokers out early from stream agreements that they no longer want to be in? ## Proposal 1 - 2 Week Timeframe for Withdraw - This proposal would give the delegator the ability to ask for the withdraw and then after 2 weeks if the withdraw did not happen a force withdraw would take place - Question of what timeframe makes sense, likely aligning to the slashing on the stream agreements would be the most logical option ## Proposal 2 - Immediate Withdraw with Penalty - This proposal would allow for a broker to ask for an immediate withdraw but at a penalized rate, say 80% of the amount - One major flaw in this design is what happens if there are no streams that would not be slashed to pull from? ## Proposal 3 - Withdraw Priority - Proposal to allow brokers to designate the ordering in which to do forced withdraws - Probably have to also be checking if there is a slashing that might occur ## Proposal 4 - Interest Accrue - Proposal to have after a certain time a scenario where the amount owed for withdraw compounds with more interest to incentivize the broker to pay up - Biggest flaw is that this won't do anything if the broker is just not active ## Proposal 5 - Inactivity Nuke Option - Proposal to have after a certain amount of inactivity or no revenue from a broker there be a nuke option to terminate the agreement and return all funds - Problem is there could be cases with small trickle of revenue ## Problem Circumstances + Proposals The following lists the different cirumstances and which proposals would work well with them or not well with them. A checkmark means this proposal works well, nothing means it is not clear, and an X means it is a bad solution. | Revenue Generation | Waiting Time | Unstake Preference | P1 | P2 | P3 | P4 | P5| | -------- | -------- | -------- |-------- |-------- |-------- |-------- |-------- | | TRUE | TRUE | TRUE |☑||☑|☑|| | TRUE | FALSE | TRUE |☒|☑|☑|☒|| | TRUE | TRUE | FALSE |☑|||☑| | TRUE | FALSE | FALSE |☒|☑||☒|| | FALSE | TRUE | TRUE |||☑|☒|☑| | FALSE | FALSE | TRUE |☒|☑|☑|☒|☑| | FALSE | TRUE | FALSE ||||☒|☑| | FALSE | FALSE | FALSE |☒|☑||☒|☑|