Jupiter Founders are considering halting JUP Buyback, community suggests incentivizing long-term holders with Staking and Protocol Asset Rewards

BlockBeats News, January 4th, Jupiter co-founder SIONG posted an article on X discussing "Whether to Stop JUP Repurchase," stating that over 70 million US dollars were spent on JUP repurchase last year, but the price did not change significantly. It is suggested to utilize this 70 million fund to provide growth incentives for existing and new users.

In response to the discussion on "Whether to Stop JUP Repurchase," Solana co-founder Anatoly Yakovenko suggested that it is best to store profits in the form of "protocol assets of future claimable tokens." Users can lock and stake to receive token rewards over a year, and as the balance sheet grows, stakers can earn larger returns.

Multicoin co-founder Kyle Samani agreed with the core spirit of Anatoly Yakovenko's idea, but mentioned that the mechanism needs further optimization. Traditional stocks do not effectively reward long-term holders. Crypto teams should find ways to allocate an excess proportion of value to long-term holders.

Selini Capital founder Jordi Alexander suggested that "adjusting the repurchase amount according to the price is a good solution. When the price is low, repurchases should be made as much as possible to significantly reduce the supply. When the market is overheated, it should slow down. Some founders are more accustomed to traditional stock buyback decisions made by the CEO/management, and they can repurchase temporarily. However, if transparency, predictability, or legal issues are the primary considerations, then more decentralized protocols can achieve this programmatically, with a simple way being to use calculated P/E ratios, where each protocol can design a repurchase P/E ratio based on its specific situation."

Solana ecosystem KOL fabiano.sol stated that "the reason why repurchasing JUP is not working is that currently people do not have a reason to hold JUP. I believe the correct process should be: first give people a reason to hold the token, and after meeting that, proceed with repurchases. Repurchasing and burning remains one of the best deflation mechanisms, but it takes time. Currently, 50 million JUP (about 10 million US dollars) is distributed quarterly as staking rewards, with Jupiter able to repurchase 50% of the revenue into the Litterbox, repurchasing 10-20 million US dollars' worth of JUP quarterly. A potential alternative is if this 10 million US dollars is used for staking rewards instead of JUP repurchase, at current prices, this could result in approximately 25% APY, which is very attractive. Although this is not a direct deflation mechanism, I believe it is more beneficial to the token price than simple repurchases."