Saros just rolled out something interesting for their liquidity game—they're calling it Concentrated Incentives (CI). Basically, if you're an LP parking your assets right around the current market price, you get rewarded in real time. No more waiting around for stale incentive distributions.



The logic here is straightforward: tighter liquidity clustering means better execution for traders. Narrower spreads, less slippage, and hopefully better yield capture for providers willing to actively manage their positions. It's a shift from spray-and-pray liquidity rewards to targeted incentivization where capital actually matters.

Whether this drives sustainable depth or just attracts mercenary capital hunting APYs remains to be seen. But the mechanism itself pushes DeFi market-making closer to how professional setups operate.
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NotAFinancialAdvicevip
· 12-06 05:39
Concentrated incentives sound good, but at the end of the day, they’re still attracting capital chasing high APY. It’s hard to say how long this can last. Can this thing really achieve sustainable depth? Feels like just a breeding ground for short-term arbitrage. Finally, some projects are realizing that market making requires professionalism, but can these liquidity hunters really play by the rules... Instead of real-time rewards, maybe we should first see if the actual trading volume can hold up. Interesting, but I’m afraid it’ll end up as another high APY trap—once a wave gets rekt, nobody will stick around.
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GlueGuyvip
· 12-05 20:59
Sounds good, but this logic just can’t hold up against the hot money chasing coins in a bull market... Mercenary capital comes and goes, so who can really provide stable liquidity? Centralized incentives are nice, but I’m worried it’ll just become another yield farming game. If we keep playing like this, won’t it actually make the market even more fragile? In my opinion, the key is still whether you can retain long-term LPs. If the APY is too attractive, it will inevitably draw in short-term capital. With Saros, we’ll have to see how they handle this going forward. Feels a bit over-engineered... Sometimes simple and straightforward incentives work best. Sounds nice in theory, but it’s still just trying to solve the same old problem of insufficient depth. Huh, this CI mechanism is basically just a DeFi version of a market maker.
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VitaliksTwinvip
· 12-04 14:53
Is it for real? This round of focused incentives from Saros sounds pretty good. Finally, someone is looking to change that useless scattergun incentive model. Damn, why do I always feel that this real-time rewards model will just let whales farm the hell out of it? How can it be called sustainable if mercenary capital comes in? I really don't buy it. That's just how DeFi is now: good ideas come out, arbitrageurs swarm in, and then what? They suck it dry and leave. If Saros can really attract long-term LPs this time, that would be awesome, but I'll bet five bucks it won't work. There's nothing wrong with the logic behind focused incentives, I'm just afraid it'll turn into yet another farming war down the line. Am I right? Interesting, finally a protocol is seriously thinking about market making.
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DegenDreamervip
· 12-04 14:38
Oh wow, finally someone is treating liquidity incentives seriously. Sounds good, but I bet five bucks that in three months it’ll still just be a bunch of capital bottom-fishing... Concentrated incentives? Basically just encouraging LPs to pile into a single price range, right? How long can this last? I’m impressed by Saros’ logic here, just worried it’ll end up another capital game. Damn, real-time rewards are ruthless—finally no more waiting for those endless, boring governance votes. But with this kind of concentration, won’t liquidity have to move as soon as the token price fluctuates? Honestly, DeFi market making is looking more and more like Wall Street. So what are we even betting on anymore?
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