ICAP Suggestions

Due to specifics of AMM router in times of high volatility ICAP pairs could attract outside traffic, artificially increasing demand for ICAP. If we had not only ICAP\ETH but also ICAP\USD pair this would cause a situation when in times of high demand for ETH part of the ETH <-> USD trading volume be routed via USD-ICAP and then ICAP-ETH pair. In times of bear market there would be reverse situation - demand for stablecoins would attract part of that traffic in opposite direction. Historically ICAP pairs had little trading volume, mostly due to low number of users. With this simple trick we can capture part of the outside trading volume therefore raising value of ICAP in the future.

Create a staking option for ICAP. The pool should have a 0-day withdrawal lock perpetual stake option, to which ICAP rewards from other stakes are automatically delivered. Auto-compounding, and saving of gas fees. This will attract investors and drive ICAP price up.

burn more ICAP

In the run up to launch, DON'T incentivise a community social marketing campaign with an amount of ICAP rewarded based on interest generated. Grow IC slowly by personal recommendations and by success, not by Twitter marketing. Keep IC a place where grown-ups feel comfortable.

Invictus could use ICAP as yield token. If YFI can cost 35k and yield around 7-8% per annum, what ICAP could do with ~20% returns?

Further to my previous post, and after discussion with zirs on discord, we came up with this suggestion to stake and earn interest in 3 different ways, while helping invictus by providing liquidity and volume. Using Balancer can help to mitigate the impermanent loss, since it can be any % balance in pool (not 50/50 like uniswap but anything from 98/2 to 20/20/20/20/20). The other perk is that you will passively earn BAL by providing liquidity. If we pool on balancer, then we can stake our BPT liquidity tokens with invictus for ICAP. This means we earn both BAL (15-27% APR approx) and ICAP, while also collecting fees from swaps. Balancer also has the advantage that you can make a "private pool" or "private smart pool" which only whitelisted addresses can join. This could solve the KYC/AML issue. Here are all the current IHF Balancer pools, and their summaries: https://pools.vision/portfolio/0x07b18c2686f3d1ba0fa8c51edc856819f2b1100a,0xbaa35c7a1f0bdf7ea92fd9ecaa72539c6f0c564c,0xaded062426863b6c60ac59217bc956447bd5deef,0xcf2e274fc7d55d3d2b1c50d5b937ec76cfb8d253,0x788f3452384bb93c23208f7fba3c6f8420720e52 Here is the documentation about balancer smart pools: https://docs.balancer.finance/smart-contracts/configurable-rights-pool And specifically there is one for using KYC approved addresses: https://docs.balancer.finance/guides/smart-pool-templates-gui/investors-club

For ex, IHF generates high fees for IC, but rewards don't reflect that for staking IHF. Adding here for tracking/discussion, it was brought up in discord.

As some users staked big amounts they will have disproportional voting power for future decisions. For proper democratization of voting power, I suggest to cap the maximum voting power at some number that has to be determined. Please make suitable suggestions. The ICAP income will not be affected.

What is your opinion on launching a "InvictusSwap" DEX based on Uniswap which is governed by ICAP holders? It would be Invictus-Token exclusive (ETH/USDC/BTC pairs) The ICAP treasury could be used to provide constant liquidity on all pairs. By doing that, fees can be collected which can be used to grow the liquidity pool further and/or to burn ICAP tokens to redistribute value to holders.

TL:DR send merch to investors so they act as multiplier and spread the great products of IC. -> more AuM -> more B&B -> higher ICAP price. Invictus managed to build a community of loyal investors that identify themselves with the company and the philosophy of democratizing finance. Invictus proved to deliver great products and many of us already helped friends and family to invest in them. By sending out merch article (e.g. shirts, hoodys, ...) to certain* investors, they draw attention to the company and are able to make it visible to a broader audience. Word of mouth works better than thousands of dollars for advertising. *has to be discussed. e.g. all verified investors or investors with more than 20 ICAP or ... Regards