# Optimism Trading Incentives Program

**Published by:** [redrice](https://paragraph.com/@redrice/)
**Published on:** 2022-08-05
**URL:** https://paragraph.com/@redrice/optimism-trading-incentives-program

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With Thales receiving 900,000 OP tokens as Phase 0 grant allocation from Optimism, part of that allocation is to be dedicated towards a Trading Incentives program on the Thales marketplace. Thales governance structure reached an agreement to emit 200,000 OP tokens + 350,000 THALES tokens as Trading Incentives for a duration of 14 weeks and 135,000 OP tokens as bonus rewards for Traders who are also staking THALES at the same time. The program is split across 7 rounds of rewards, each lasting for 2 weeks (14 days). Each round will have a fixed amount of tokens as rewards distributed pro-rata among Buy Volume drivers across different reward buckets. The distribution of rewards per each 14-day round is as following:11,000 OP + 20,000 THALES split between UP token Buy Volume in sUSD11,000 OP + 20,000 THALES split between DOWN token Buy Volume in sUSD6,000 OP + 10,000 THALES split between Ranged Markets IN/OUT tokens Buy Volume in sUSD

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