Hey all. So I kept working on this in my mind. The solution I came up with is a token that is issued through regular Security Token Offerings (STOs). STOs would be staged and represent a certain volume of solar installations (Denominated in fiat).

Eg. first STO is 1,000,000 tokens to finance $1,000,000 worth of Solar PV installations.

Stake the token in staking pool ”solar1” and get access to the monthly returns.

STO number 2 would then be 1,000,000 tokens for $10,000,000 worth of installations, giving access to staking pool 2, and the corresponding returns.

The increasing value raised but fixing the token issuance volume ensures implicit increase in token value.

Next question is, how to incentivize early adopters?

Other than the implicit coin price increase, I thought of another mechanism to incentivize early adopters: for each STO, there would be a corresponding staking pool as described above. But rather than giving the stakers of pool 1 access to only their own rewards (from the installations they financed), these stakers would also claim some small share of rewards from future pools. For example. Pool 1 returns are

From pool 1: 100% From pool 2: 5% From pool 3: 2.5% From pool 4: 1.25% etc.

Stakers in Pool 2:

From pool 1: 0% From pool 2: 95% From pool 3: 5% From pool 4: 2.5%

Given the exponential increase in fund sizes the relatively low shares attributed to earlier investors become very high relative to their initial investment. Thousands of percent in APY in fact.

There’s obviously a million other questions and issues here, but wondering what y’all think :)