Retention fee in public oracle feeds
Reflector proposes a retention fee system for public oracle feeds. Active price feeds will be sponsored by their users, while unused symbols are removed. The mechanism ties oracle sustainability directly to ecosystem demand.
Reflector, a decentralized price oracle for Stellar DeFi, proposes introducing retention fees for symbols in its public price feeds. The mechanism requires active sponsorship from users who depend on each symbol; feeds with active funding continue operating, while symbols without sponsors are delisted. This ties oracle sustainability directly to ecosystem demand, allowing Reflector to maintain high-quality feeds for actively used assets while removing unused symbols that represent pure operational overhead. The proposal shifts cost responsibility from the protocol to its users, aligning incentives between feed maintainers and consumers.
