LP Army Bounties

General
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The LP Army has been super effective at bootstrapping liquidity when volume is present.

We’re taking things to the next level by democractizing the ability for teams to pay additional bounties or rewards directly to the LP Army, in exchange for bootstrapping liquidity for their tokens.

Introducing LP Army Bounties

Under LP Army Bounties, Project Teams or Meteora will post a short-term liquidity bounty.

LP Army will continue to earn points as per-normal, but will receive an additional reward after a short period (2 weeks - 1 month) based on their points earned.

This would be based on CA, specified by the team, limited to /SOL or /USDC pairs.

Example: $10,000 USDC will be distributed across points earned on any JUP/SOL or JUP/USDC pool.

How It Works

Provide Liquidity. Earn Fees. Get Rewarded.

Participants earn rewards based on their share of fees earned across all pools with either SOL or USDC quote mints, associated with a single contract address (CA). This represents a shift from traditional pool-based rewards to CA-based incentives.

Key Advantages

Enhanced Flexibility: Unlike previous pool-specific limitations, the CA-based approach allows the LP Army to deploy their own pools and strategies to maximize rewards.

Strategic Focus: Short-term campaigns (2 weeks to 1 month) are designed to attract attention and drive rapid growth.

Integrated System: Everything operates through our existing points system, with bounty rewards functioning as short-term bonuses on top of standard points. Drawing additional attention to the Points System to grow Meteora

Disclaimer: As we scale this initiative, rewards may be distributed by projects permissionlessly. Bounty rewards are provided by participating projects and do not constitute an endorsement from Meteora. Always do your own due diligence when selecting the pools to provide liquidity into.

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Before we roll out LP Army Bounties, I think we need to address a critical risk: what happens if the project rugs?

Rug events are not uncommon, especially in the meme/token farming space. Without safeguards, this bounty mechanism could unintentionally become a tool for bad actors to attract liquidity before pulling the plug. Even if Meteora states “no endorsement” in the disclaimer, the LP Army’s reputation could still take a hit.

Key concerns:

  1. Unclear liability – In a rug scenario, LPs bear the full loss, and Meteora can only disclaim responsibility.

  2. Increased rug incentives – High short-term bounties can attract LPs to risky pools, creating a bigger target for malicious teams.

  3. Reputation risk – Even if we’re not at fault, LP Army could be seen as facilitating rugs if no vetting is done.

Possible safeguards:

  • Whitelist only – Only allow bounty campaigns from projects that pass Meteora/DAO risk review.

  • Security deposit / escrow – Require projects to lock part of the bounty in advance as a guarantee.

  • High-risk label – Clearly mark campaigns with elevated rug risk.

  • Full transparency & opt-in – Ensure LPs understand the risks before participating.

Without these measures, we may be setting up LPs for unnecessary exposure, and in the long run, this could undermine trust in the LP Army initiative.

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Does this also work if we provide liquidity (Meteora pools) using another protocol ? Say.. hawkfi for instance ?

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Like the idea.
Could add a “LP hunter’“ or “LP mercenary” role on LP Army discord for the top 3 users who got the best rewards ? Something fun, the role wouldn’t be incentivized or anything, just to “show off”

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Would like to start seeing this incentives firstly in some more trusted tokens like Uranus something like that and then do it permisión less for everyone

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Will all liquidity providers benefit from it or will it be like the m3m3 pool were only the top 1000 people on the leaderboard are paid?

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Why not give a direct reward to the LP Army Private role? I don’t think what you’re doing is fair. Instead of rewarding those who played and supported the platform in the past, you’re playing new games.

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I fully support the bounty concept — I think it’s a great initiative.

That said, I share @szujason concerns and believe we need a way to protect the LP Army and the wider community from the risk this could pose if exploited by professional ruggers.

If there’s vetting involved, then it can’t be fully permissionless — and Meteora would at least be morally accountable for doing due diligence upfront.

If we want to keep it permissionless, then we should AT LEAST require the developer or project team behind the token to lock the bounty on the platform.

It would also help to add clear tags showing that a campaign is active, outlining the campaign’s terms, and displaying the APY based on the current TVL (similar to how Kamino shows yield).

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Unless I’m mistaken, there’s no link between the upcoming airdrop and this proposal.

The aim here is to create a sustainable mechanism that will reward the entire LP Army (anyone providing liquidity - not just the LP Army Discord role) whenever liquidity is provided on specific tokens during predefined campaign periods.

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for LP Army Bounties, since rewards are based on CA and can apply to any SOL or USDC pair for that CA, will campaigns typically be designed to encourage liquidity across multiple eligible pools at once, or do you envision most bounties concentrating liquidity into one or two specific pools?

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I’m 100% supporting this. It helps the LP Army in two big ways:

First, it kickstarts liquidity early because the bounties act as an upfront incentive, encouraging LPs to join sooner instead of waiting for volume to grow.

Second, it makes liquidity stickier since the rewards are tied to a 2–4 week campaign, which keeps LPs in for the full period instead of pulling out after quick burguer PnL flip.

It’s a smart way to secure a strong start and keep liquidity around long enough for organic trading to take over.

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I think the idea is for the teams behind projects / tokens to provide additional rewards for LPing their token. So it’s up to them, not Meteora

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Good initiative and I welcome it. @szujason summed up the potential pitfalls very well. Probably some kind of a bond should be posted by teams/projects into an escrow or lock as insurance to keep them honest. In case of a rug, the LP Army would at least partially be compensated for the loss and thus reduce risk.

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What if the dev rugs? would be really bad for the whole community.

Instead we can partner up with known projects/Meteora tool tokens and run the bounties in a controlled environment.

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I think the #1 safeguard here is
”Security deposit / escrow – Require projects to lock part of the bounty in advance as a guarantee.”
Imho
Make that security deposit as big as possible as if someone does rug, there really is no recourse other than this deposit to make users whole again.

Interesting program though I’m quite interested. I have no idea how it will actually work but its definitely very interesting.

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Another idea for security could maybe be that whatever token is associated that they want to do LP for maybe you could help create that contract and place safeguards, such as like the initial token is a whitelist only and certain wallets will be known to control whatever portion of supply is supposed to go to team, then there could be something automatic in the contract such that if any of the team wallets try to dump or move tokens LP is frozen or something similar perhaps prevents dumping to protect LP’ers, at least in early stages.

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I’d say to possibly get the project to commit some stables to hedge any token volatility after. I’d have said that the program should not go live until a while after TGE but bad acting projects would just learn to wait until whenever liquidity comes and then pull the plug on LPers

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This is a wonderful Idea, more value for LP army.

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I really like how LP Army Bounties gives projects a direct way to boost short-term liquidity while keeping it flexible for LPs. Definitely a smart move for Meteora’s points system, but I’ll still be picky about which pools I join.

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This is a good initiative, more rewards for the Lparmy.