i guess i’m seeing the staking option as another “move fees around” option, whereas premiums is “make people pay a subscription for the service” so it becomes a new revenue model in itself if managed well
the “profit” of staked BNT is hard to quantify, we can’t even quantify how much liquidity is “enough” or “too much” on the TKN side despite ~2 years of trying to do that, and this sounds more difficult to measure than that - Proposal: Limit on-curve liquidity to max(520 x 7 day fees, 100k BNT) - #37 by mikewcasale
remember that a 50/50 2-sided AMM doesn’t generate enough fees to cover IL
so to me that implies that “enough” BNT staked to cover IL would be more than 50/50
so to qualify for full ILP maybe you have to stake 1.5 BNT for ever 1 TKN on curve
at that point “single sided staking” is kind of just semantics and reality is that we’re doing something more like balancer with weighted pools to mitigate IL
