๐Ÿช™$ECHO

$Echo

$ECHO is the underlying token powering all of Echoโ€™s token economy. We have designed the token economics of $ECHO to incorporate several notable token designs such as VE (vote-escrow) and time weighted tokens. The mechanics of the token is as such:

$twEcho

Users stake $ECHO tokens to get $twECHO (time-weighted echo), which is the value-accruing token for Echo Protocol. The amount of $twECHO that is disbursed is calculated as such:

Where,

x = Number of days locked on Echo (minimum of 1 day, maximum of 365 days)

y = Amount of $ECHO tokens locked on Echo

The maximum duration of each lock cycle is 1 year (365 days), users must manually extend their lock by re-locking. $twECHO decays over 365 days and users will be able to redeem their locked $ECHO once lock has completed.

Echoโ€™s revenue is derived from various streams, including:

(a) Bridging fees from Echo Vaults

(b) Echo money markets revenue (borrow/lending spread, liquidations)

(c) Echo LST fees

(d) Echo commission fees from usersโ€™ earnings from Echoโ€™s BTCFi products

(e) Any other future features in Echo's roadmap. Echo Protocol will distribute the revenues across each epoch by the weight of each userโ€™s $twECHO holdings.

Echo Protocol will distribute the revenues across each epoch by the weight of each userโ€™s $twECHO holdings.

$vetwEcho

Users can participate in Echo Protocolโ€™s governance through locking their $twECHO to get $vetwECHO. $vetwECHO is not tradable and serves as voting rights for any Echo Protocolโ€™s on-chain proposals.

$vetwECHO has the ability to direct $ECHO emissions across each of the lending pool that echo supports through a gauge weighted voting mechanism, similar to CurveDAO. Users can use their $vetwECHO tokens to vote on specific lending pools to boost $ECHO incentives on the assets in the lending pool.

Echo Fuel

Echo Fuel is an ongoing programe to enhance liquidity for $aBTC on Aptos. It rewards users who are providing liquidity to $aBTC on DEXs across other Aptos ecosystem projects.

Users provide liquidity on Echoโ€™s whitelisted DEXs to receive LP tokens, which represents a receipt on the liquidity provided and claim for the liquidity + any rewards.

Users stake LP position on Echo to get rewarded with boosted revenue and token emissions based on a multiplier. The minimum threshold to kickstart multiplier rewards is 10% of the LP value to the amount of $twECHO a User has. The multiplier is calculated as such:

Amount of LP deposited

Reward multiplier

10%

2x

100%

10x

The multiplier will be applied on the usersโ€™ $twECHO weight, determining the final allocated weight to distribute Echo protocolโ€™s revenues and Echo emissions.

Should users wish to unstake their LP positions, the multiplier will not be applicable upon unstaking LP tokens, and rewards will be subject to a 10-90% penalty and re-distributed to current stakers. The penalty is calculated as follows:

Withdrawal period

Penalty

10 days

90%

100 days

0%

Currently, Echo protocol accepts the following LP positions:

  • $aBTC/$APT

  • $aBTC/$USDT

  • $aBTC/$USDC

*Please take note that the tokenomics of Echo is subject to potential changes and may be updated in the future.

Last updated