Boardwalk

Boardwalk is a community-centered fee-protection protocol for launching, discovering and participating in transparent token economies. It is open, permissionless, non-custodial, transparent, fair, auditable, and built to level the playing field for all. Users can discover and participate in token economies, provide liquidity and earn, in addition to directing designated fees through the BWS staking module. On Boardwalk, token launches are fair. All issuer, token and economy details are presented transparently on auction and token profile pages, with initial liquidity upon graduation seeded and permanently locked without human intervention or control. Tokens launched through Boardwalk utilize the Boardwalk standardization embedded into every token where it matters most, while having a degree of freedom to customize fringe settings to create their own economy. Boardwalk establishes the framework for security and transparency, while Issuers retain autonomy and flexibility. **Growth Team, Public Good, Referrers** are launch-specific fee and vesting recipients configured by the issuer. These can include an entity treasury, a public-good address, a growth team, and a referrer when the launch uses one. Boardwalk enables *anyone* to earn from nurturing token economies. **Issuers** define the characteristics of their token economy prior to launching. They choose a launch path, set the auction structure, configure fee routing, upload a description and video, and engage their community through Café Boardwalk. For Advanced launches, issuers configure initial liquidity and vesting splits. **Contributors** join auctions during the live window by depositing the raise token. Earlier contributors receive more weight through a 10% early participation bonus that decays to 0% by the end of the auction.  After a successful launch, they claim their token allocation once the 7-day claim cliff ends. If the launch does not reach its graduation threshold, they claim a full refund. Contributors can also trade, research, and evaluate live tokens through each token’s profile page. **Liquidity Provider (LP) Participants** provide liquidity for live tokens launched through Boardwalk and are incentivized in multiple ways, including for staking for longer periods of time. Participants earn normal swap fees that compound in the pool. Participants earn a dedicated fee-stream from all token swaps and transfers (between 0.23% and 0.25% depending on the chain). If applicable, Participants also receive 20% of the vesting pool if vesting was configured into the launch. Participants earn Participation Points for staking longer over time.  TL;DR — Participants who stake longer earn proportionally more incentives relative to short term stakers. DeFi summer anyone? **BWS Stakers** Each epoch, eligible stakers vote on where designated protocol fees should be routed. BWS stakers also accrue Voter Points, which increase at an 100% annual accrual rate, giving stakers who stake longer, a larger voting weight.