The marmaj.near also has >10k NEAR staking through delegation to various validators. This NEAR is considered in “long term lockup” and there is no plan to withdraw these funds in the short/medium term. (to be used for eventual marmaj validator)
For the marmaj ↔ stNEAR pair, since stNEAR tracks closely to the price of NEAR (but with additional staking rewards), it would be beneficial to both the marmaj and general NEAR community to add additional LP.
To kick off utility for the pool, 2119 marmaj is to be added to the liquidity pool to support the community. A little over 3000 stNEAR will also be contributed to the pool from marmaj.near.
There is still ~355 stNEAR balance in ref for marmaj.near.
This proposal is to withdraw the necessary NEAR from the marmaj DAO to provide LP to the stNEAR ↔ wNEAR pair (360 NEAR)
The REF tokens earned from this pair will (in part) be used to purchace $marmaj tokens on the marmaj ↔ REF pair to then be deposited back to the marmaj DAO (marmaj.sputnik-dao.near) on a weekly basis. (~7 $marmaj a week)
While this experiment was educational, it does not seem like it was economically viable to support the marmaj DAO. For that reason, I will be unwinding the stNEAR ↔ marmaj pair on ref.finance: Ref Finance.
The marmaj tokens from the pool will be sent back to the DAO address for now. The stNEAR will be used for other purposes to support the Marma J Foundation.