Beradrome: Incentivize Anything
By Heeshillio
In crypto, incentives are everything. They secure Bitcoin, bootstrap DeFi liquidity, and fuel DePIN networks. Yet many projects struggle to tie their token emissions to real outcomes. That’s why we built Beradrome: a coordination network with sustainable tokenomics and flexible plugins that let you incentivize anything onchain (and possibly offchain too).
“Beradrome found success on Berachain V1 (Arbitrum) with the infamouns Bears on Bikes NFT mint. Although a technical disaster, Beradrome combatted this fud by removing the sell button and solidifying themselves as the best liquidity hub around.”
The Problem
Early crypto success stories, like Bitcoin, show how token emissions can align a decentralized network around a shared goal. Yet many modern protocols suffer from:
- Unsustainable Emissions: Projects print tokens to attract liquidity or user actions (play-to-earn), only to face hyperinflation or “farm-and-dump” cycles.
- Minimal Real Yield: If a protocol or pool doesn’t generate fees or revenue, its emissions are essentially funding unsustainable growth.
- Rigid Infrastructure: Many projects rely on a single-purpose gauge model (e.g., their gauges only support their own DEX), making it tough to adapt to new DeFi or gaming opportunities.
Beradrome tackles these challenges with a generalized coordination network. Any onchain action — from staking LP tokens to playing an onchain game — can earn sustainable incentives, provided it drives real value back to governance.
Coordination Network
I like to think of coordination networks as a new crypto primitive. Even though Beradrome, Bittensor, and Berachain have different designs, they share the same big idea: (starting their names with a B) using token incentives to coordinate and reward valuable activity in a decentralized way. Yes, it’s a bit meta that Beradrome (a coordination network) is built on top of Berachain (another coordination network), but they synergize surprisingly well.
It makes sense when you think about it: incentives are one of the clearest product-market fits in crypto. Bittensor coordinates machine learning, Berachain coordinates liquidity in its L1 ecosystem, and Beradrome coordinates anything that can plug into it. All three build incentive engines — trustless, transparent platforms that motivate people to do useful work by rewarding them with tokens. That’s the real power of a coordination network: giving everyone a reason to collaborate for a common goal, all without relying on a centralized authority.
So, What Exactly is Beradrome?
Beradrome is a coordination network built on Berachain, designed to incentivize any onchain action in a sustainable way. It extends the popular ve(3,3) gauges (used by protocols like Solidly, Velodrome, and Aerodrome) but removes the single-purpose limitation — so it’s not just about liquidity pools anymore.
Beradrome still revolves around vote-directed emissions, but with two key differences:
1. Plugin-Based Gauges
Instead of limiting emissions to specific liquidity pools, Beradrome lets builders develop custom “plugins” (like gauges) for any onchain mechanism. These plugins return revenue — swap fees, yield, bribes, in-game revenue, etc. — to Beradrome’s governance token holders (hiBERO) who vote for them.
By incentivizing practically anything that can drive value back to governance, Beradrome can channel emissions to the highest-value protocols — making it far more flexible than a traditional ve(3,3) setup.
2. New Token Model
The second innovation is Beradrome’s three-token architecture, carefully designed for deep, single-sided liquidity in the governance token:
- BERO — The primary token, always redeemable for at least 1 HONEY.
- hiBERO — The staked governance version of BERO: you stake BERO → get hiBERO → vote on plugins.
- oBERO — A call option on BERO that users must pay 1 HONEY to exercise, ensuring any newly minted BERO is fully backed by HONEY.
Tying Emissions to Voters
In typical gauge systems, external farmers can farm-and-dump tokens without much downside. Beradrome flips this by having voters themselves provide the liquidity for BERO. If farmers sell off new emission tokens (oBERO), the voters’ own liquidity is directly affected — prompting more thoughtful, sustainable governance decisions.
Single-Sided Liquidity
Inspired by veBAL’s 80/20 model, Beradrome goes one step further: you only stake BERO (no second asset required), so there’s no need to juggle pairs or worry about impermanent loss.
Guaranteed Floor Price & Backed Emissions
Every BERO is redeemable for 1 HONEY, guaranteeing a price floor. Because new BERO is only created when users spend HONEY to convert oBERO, the system avoids runaway inflation — all newly minted tokens are “paid for”.
Borrowing Without Liquidation
With BERO never dropping below 1 HONEY, you can borrow HONEY 1:1 against staked BERO, without liquidation risk.
Collectively, these three tokens and the plugin-based gauge system form a sustainable framework for Beradrome: governance tokens remain deeply liquid, emissions flow to high-value projects, and everyone benefits from a truly incentive-aligned model. By tying emissions to real revenue or activity, Beradrome cultivates a more flexible and long-lasting token ecosystem — well beyond a single DEX or yield aggregator.
How It Works
1. hiBERO Voters
Stake BERO → Earn hiBERO
Staking your BERO tokens gives you hiBERO, granting governance power. There’s only a brief (1-week) cooldown to unlock if you decide to unstake.
Vote on Plugins
Each plugin (sometimes called a gauge) competes for oBERO emissions. As a hiBERO holder, you allocate your votes to determine which plugins receive these emissions. In return, you earn a share of any fees, bribes, or yield those plugins generate.
Collect Revenue
Because plugins that share higher revenue tend to attract more votes, governance naturally directs emissions to the most profitable or impactful applications. That aligns incentives between plugin developers, users, and voters.
2. Plugins & User Incentives
Generalized Gauges
A plugin is just a smart contract with three key parameters:
- User Stake: Whatever users deposit or do (e.g., LP tokens, in-game actions).
- Revenue Source: How it generates fees, yields, or bribes (AMM swaps, yield farming, game fees, etc.).
- Distribution Logic: How that revenue is claimed and distributed to hiBERO voters of the plugin.
Earning oBERO
If you participate in a plugin — by providing liquidity or playing an onchain game — you’ll receive a proportional share of its oBERO emissions. For example, if a plugin emits 100 oBERO per day and your stake is 2% of the total, you earn 2 oBERO/day. The definition of stake is programmable — it could be LP tokens, in-game achievements, or any metric the plugin developer chooses
Revenue for Voters
Any revenue a plugin produces (swap fees, bribes, yield) flows to the hiBERO voters who supported it. This encourages developers to create plugins that attract voters (through revenue sharing).
3. Bonding Curves & Emissions
At the core of Beradrome’s token design is a dual-bonding curve that ensures every BERO token is redeemable for at least 1 HONEY. It also guarantees that new BERO is created only when someone pays HONEY to exercise oBERO.
The Floor Curve (y = 1)
- A dedicated bonding curve at 1 BERO ↔ 1 HONEY acts as the protocol’s floor.
- Because you can always redeem BERO for 1 HONEY here, the market price can’t fall below that level — any lower price would be arbitraged away.
The Market Curve (xy = k)
- If demand rises, BERO can trade above 1 HONEY.
- This market curve allows price discovery and upward potential.
- When demand cools, the floor curve protects the downside by anchoring BERO at 1 HONEY.
Emissions
- All emissions are in oBERO: When you exercise it, you pay 1 HONEY to mint each new BERO, replenishing the protocol’s floor reserves.
- Because new BERO is always “paid for,” Beradrome avoids the pitfalls of unchecked inflation.
- If oBERO is dumped, the hiBERO holders’ own liquidity absorbs that sell pressure — aligning their votes with long-term protocol health as they’re less likely to direct emissions to low-value or “farm-and-dump” plugins.
With a stable floor and sustainable emissions, Beradrome’s bonding curves enable deep, single-sided liquidity for governance (hiBERO), ensuring voters remain directly invested in the projects and plugins they support.
Real Plugin Examples
DeFi Plugins
- Berachain Plugin: Farmers deposit a Beraswap LP to earn swap fees and oBERO. The plugin stakes that LP into Berachain’s PoL vault, generating BERA for hiBERO voters.
- Infrared Plugin: Same idea but the plugin stakes LPs in Infrared Vault, producing iBGT for voters.
Game Plugins
- Bull Ish (Cookie-Clicker style game): Players pay a small fee to spank a Bera, letting them earn oBERO. The fees they pay go back to hiBERO voters as bribes, ensuring a continuous incentive to vote for the Bull Ish plugin.
- BentoBera (Pixel Board): Think r/place onchain. You pay to place a pixel on a 100×100 grid, and most of that fee becomes a bribe for hiBERO voters. You earn oBERO as long as your pixel remains. If someone overwrites it, you lose that stake.
Agent Plugins
- Unlike typical plugins that focus on onchain actions, Agent Plugins direct oBERO emissions to an AI or agent, which then uses those tokens to incentivize off-chain actions. Because these agents have their own wallets, they can autonomously spend oBERO on whatever tasks they’re programmed to accomplish.
- Meme Agent: An agent receives oBERO in its wallet, scanning Twitter for “beradrom” memes. If it finds a qualifying post (including the user’s address), it tips them oBERO directly. Voters back the agent if they value the marketing efforts.
The Common Thread
In every case, the Beradrome plugin model blends:
- User Incentives: Earn oBERO, collect yields, or simply have fun.
- hiBERO Voter Incentives: Receive fees, bribes, or other rewards from the plugins they support.
- Sustainability: No endless token printing — everything is tied to real revenue or meaningful activity.
This allows builders to experiment with new types of plugins, from serious DeFi products to playful onchain games, all while aligning user and governance incentives in a sustainable way.
Why You Should Care
If You’re a DeFi User
- Maximize Yield. Deposit your assets into the most productive plugins, earn oBERO incentives, and enjoy sustainable returns.
- Easy Staking. Prefer to hold a governance token? Stake BERO → hiBERO and collect bribes from the best plugins — no complex farming required.
If You’re a Gamer
- Sustainable Play-to-Earn Gaming. Bring fun play mechanics together with robust, sustainable token incentives.
- Real Examples. Check out Bull Ish or BentoBera to see how “Play-to-Earn” can be more than just hype, offering genuine engagement and rewards.
If You’re a Developer
- Plug-and-Play Incentives. Forget reinventing a gauge system or emitting your tokens for liquidity; just integrate your yield/fee model and let hiBERO voters direct emissions your way.
- Build Anything. From DeFi vaults to onchain games to AI-driven agents — Beradrome lets you reward user participation in any application.
The Bigger Picture
Beradrome isn’t just about boosting a single DeFi pool or one project’s farm. Its plugin-based architecture lets any builder:
- Plug in to Beradrome’s gauge system.
- Offer a share of your protocol’s yield or revenue to hiBERO voters.
- Attract oBERO emissions, in turn driving user deposits or onchain actions.
Since Beradrome doesn’t lock you into a specific AMM or yield platform, you can shift from one plugin to another simply by changing your votes. This ensures incentives naturally flow to the protocols delivering the most value.
Ultimately, Beradrome is a platform, not just a protocol. It brings builders, voters, and users together around sustainable incentives. Because when incentives are truly aligned, everyone — from individual players to core devs to protocol governors — benefits in a long-lasting way.
Disclaimer: This article is for informational purposes only and does not constitute financial advice. Always do your own research (DYOR) before interacting with any protocol. Smart contracts carry inherent risks, including potential vulnerabilities. Please exercise caution and never invest more than you can afford to lose.
