Looking at OIP-45, I have a few questions (I'm gonna paraphrase the proposal so people can see where my understanding level is at). The goal is to bootstrap liquidity on other chains with 120k OHM. There currently is some ohm liquidity on other chains, mainly through "unincentivized wsOHM LP" (so we got some pools on L2 where people can exchange other assets for sOHM/wsOHM). This proposal wants to create incentivized gOHM (new name for wsOHM) pools on L2 chains; more liquidity, on additional chains.
What's going to be in parentheses here will be my own takeaways: 1) The acknowledged benefits are that it'll create a large presence on other chains (help reel in money that'd otherwise go to forks, perhaps decrease the incentive to create new forks if you already got OHM assets on that specific chain*). 2) An acknowledged drawback is that this liquidity would not be protocol owned (I don't know if a mechanism would be in place to get the protocol to own it down the road outside of people bonding their LP for discounted OHM after Olympus gets POL/bonding/staking established on these chains).
My biggest question is what prevents people from buying gOHM on these new chains at an incentivized discount and then migrating over to L1 and staking as normal? And if there isn't a discount on the initial purchase but the incentive comes through the form of liquidity mining, what prevents current ohmies from slurping up all the gOHM on a network with super-low gas fees, and then immediately bridging/staking to L1 (assuming L1 staking APY is gonna be higher than L2 liquidity mining APY)? Viewing this as a question since this proposal wants to let new users who don't have $$ for eth fees to get into OHM as well as create gOHM liquidity on those chains, I'm just not sure if there are mechanisms in place to keep that liquidity on those chains. Don't think you can get around the reality that current ohmies might be making new wallets just to buy gOHM with much cheaper fees, but can't really tell who is/isn't a "new user" in this ecosystem. More a question about how we'll keep liquidity on L2 to establish a presence before POL goes cross chain with Olympus V2. *the comment about possibly fewer forks if OHM is on that L2 assumes that people get into OHM, sit with their incentivized gOHM (if liquidity mining) and wait for POL to bring in staking. don't know about solidity coding and if establishing OlympusV2 on other chains would allow for even more open-source copycat code, but this goes away from the scope of the initial question.