Heavy Metal Mass Igniter ($cMASS)

The Power of a thousand Suns

(HMMI) Once SamarQand launches in full (elaborated here), we will introduce an additional staking feature alongside the LHC called the “Heavy Metal Mass Igniter”. This is a direct reference to the architecture of a nuclear weapon (specifically a two-stage design that summons a thermonuclear explosion aka hydrogen bomb) to set off nuclear fission (similar process used in nuclear power plants) and subsequently trigger a nuclear fusion chain reaction thereby releasing a gigantic amount of energy.

Oversimplified, the primary stage fission explosion detonates the actual secondary stage fusion explosion, whereby the density of the exposed heavy metal (most often plutonium) reaches a supercritical state (also known as ‘critical mass’, which is is the smallest amount of fissile material needed for a sustained nuclear chain reaction), starting a nuclear fission chain reaction. The fission products of this chain reaction heat the highly compressed, and thus super dense, thermonuclear fuel, igniting fusion reactions between fusion fuel nuclei and fundamentally unleashing the power of the sun. This creates a canonically elegant conflux, as it requires fission and fusion in two stages (i.e. two components like the ENERGY and CRYSTAL tokens) and creates high density critical mass, which aptly describes the increased governance and earning power.

Similar to the previous designs of the LP and governance tokens, this will in essence act as a leveraged version of MASS tokens, and will have the same properties like the Boson (non-transferable and non-tradable), consequently referred to as cMASS (acronym for ‘Critical Mass’). Holders of the cMASS tokens will have the same opportunities and features as the standard MASS holders, but with [X-times] increased voting power and rewards disbursements.

This mechanic incentivizes liquidity providers on the platform to more actively diversify their portfolio across the different Exofi products, which of course benefits the protocol and the community as a whole.