The Weekly Orbit 16 Dec 2023 Episode 33

This week's headlines: - Rapid Research Incubator Proposals - How to allow for ETH only minipools while preserving/enhancing RPL capture while also benefiting rETH holders. All this along with Rocket Pool stats for the week! Podcasts RSS feed: https://anchor.fm/s/e0e911b0/podcast/rss Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6Mx5Y6ilFjsb9VYkdGaZjx Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-weekly-orbit/id1686732351 Google: . https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9hbmNob3IuZm0vcy9lMGU5MTFiMC9wb2RjYXN0L3Jzcw 0:00 Intro 1:55 Deposit Pool stats https://rocketscan.io/depositpool 4:38 December Smoothing Pool distribution https://rocketscan.io/smoothingpool 6:57 Rapid Research Incubator https://dao.rocketpool.net/t/rapid-research-incubator-submission-eth-only-minipools-divert-a-portion-of-commissions-to-rpl-staked-minipools/2584 13:32 Samus Proposal: ETH only minipools w/part of commission flowing to RPL stakers https://dao.rocketpool.net/t/rapid-research-incubator-submission-eth-only-minipools-divert-a-portion-of-commissions-to-rpl-staked-minipools/2584 17:20 NeverAnIsland Proposal: ETH only minipools using a built in RPL pool vault to lend RPL, capturing part of the commission for RPL stakers. https://dao.rocketpool.net/t/built-in-rpl-pool/2538 20:02 Valdorff 1st Proposal: For ETH only minipools, borrow RPL with no liquidation loan from Myso https://dao.rocketpool.net/t/options-forum-thread/2515/3 https://github.com/Valdorff/rp-thoughts/blob/main/2023_11_rapid_research_incubator/myso_loans.md 21:09 Valdorff 2nd Proposal: For ETH only minipools, a "rental" fee is paid upfront to RPL stakers https://dao.rocketpool.net/t/options-forum-thread/2515/3 https://github.com/Valdorff/rp-thoughts/blob/main/2023_11_rapid_research_incubator/rent_or_stake.md 27:28 Table of all proposals so far https://discord.com/channels/405159462932971535/1176030152203972628/1187110061089226873