Over the past year, WOO’s price has been hit hard. Everyone felt it. That led to every aspect of WOO being examined, particularly the staking methodology. When staking was designed, the goal was to make it simple. Easy to join and leave, with flexible reward options. The belief was that lowering friction would bring more people in. The problem is that flexibility behaves differently when market conditions flip. When the price started trending down, the same features that made staking inviting also made it effortless to rotate out. People could choose USDC instead of auto-compounding. They could collect daily WOO rewards on WOO X and sell them. They could treat the system like a faucet rather than a flywheel. None of this is wrong. Users act in their own interest. But the truth is, the flywheel didn’t build momentum the way it was expected. So the adjustment was made. Starting now, half of all staking rewards go towards buying and directly burning WOO each week. The other half still goes to stakers. At current levels, this removes around half a million tokens weekly. If WOOFi and Starchild grow their revenues, that number scales naturally. A lot of this is still an economics problem rather than a tokenomics issue, since sharing revenue means your valuation gets closely tied to the APR you can generate. What is really needed is more traders, more volume, a revamp of the WOOFi Swap algos to be even more competitive for flow, and Starchild on the way to automate execution across DeFi. Once that arrives, the flywheel running underneath WOO becomes far more effective. WOO is still here building. There are no more VC or private unlocks. Nearly the entire supply is already circulating. This means experiments on the token side will yield quick insights into how best to grow. On the product side, I’m personally very excited about the next phases of Starchild and WOOFi coming together to make some interesting automated trading products (soon) WOO 👍