# Ideas on improving % delegated

**URL:** <https://forum.scroll.io/t/ideas-on-improving-delegated/301>\
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**Tags:** delegates\
**Created:** [November 25, 2024, 10:21pm UTC](https://forum.scroll.io/t/ideas-on-improving-delegated/301 "2024-11-25T22:21:31Z")\
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**Post date:** [December 27, 2024, 12:23am UTC](https://forum.scroll.io/t/ideas-on-improving-delegated/301/10 "2024-12-27T00:23:18Z")

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Internet Computer has a clever mechanism for incentivizing delegation:

1. you get % yield for every vote you participate in
2. you can delegate to someone else to vote on your behalf (so you still get yield)

I think this has resulted in about 50% of their tokens being delegated

> **[Tokenomics series: Projecting the total supply of ICP](https://forum.dfinity.org/t/tokenomics-series-projecting-the-total-supply-of-icp/20205)**
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> TL;DR The goal of this article is to explain the interplay between the deflationary and inflationary mechanisms of ICP and to project their joint development. The concepts and tools presented here serve as a toolbox for assessing ICP tokenomics...

There are more nuances to their mechanism, one key idea is that in order to vote you have to stake your tokens for a certain amount of time. The longer they’re scheduled to be locked up, and the longer they remain locked the more influence each of your votes gets — and the more influence the larger the rewards.

Anyway, it’s an interesting system, comes with its own issues due to the fact that it’s highly inflationary, I haven’t read that post yet but they claim to have ways of achieving monetary soundness

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