# How can Livepeer's incentives enable future stakeholders to have meaningful buy-in?

**URL:** <https://forum.livepeer.org/t/how-can-livepeers-incentives-enable-future-stakeholders-to-have-meaningful-buy-in/1055>\
**Category:** Governance\
**Created:** [March 24, 2020, 6:40pm UTC](https://forum.livepeer.org/t/how-can-livepeers-incentives-enable-future-stakeholders-to-have-meaningful-buy-in/1055 "2020-03-24T18:40:08Z")\
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**Author:** ![Gavin](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forum.livepeer.org/gavin/32/1263_2.png) [@Gavin](https://forum.livepeer.org/u/Gavin)\
**Post date:** [March 24, 2020, 6:40pm UTC](https://forum.livepeer.org/t/how-can-livepeers-incentives-enable-future-stakeholders-to-have-meaningful-buy-in/1055/1 "2020-03-24T18:40:08Z")

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Hello! I recently considered Livepeer’s proposed approach to decentralized governance and [wrote this article](https://figment.network/resources/governing-the-worlds-open-video-infrastructure/). A few questions arose as a result:

**Are market forces enough to incentivize present and future LPT-holders to distribute LPT to new stakeholders?**

I think that the present incentive mechanisms have effectively rewarded early participants (including present participants), but I am skeptical that they're extensible to future stakeholders. As the network becomes more useful, it could be tempting for existing stakeholders to monopolize ownership of the network.

**How can the network incentives enable future stakeholders to have meaningful buy-in?** If the token is a critical element of governance, and governance is to be extensible, shouldn't the token distribution process also be extensible? Perhaps market forces are insufficient to grow the network.

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**Author:** ![dob](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forum.livepeer.org/dob/32/7_2.png) [@dob](https://forum.livepeer.org/u/dob)\
**Post date:** [March 26, 2020, 6:29pm UTC](https://forum.livepeer.org/t/how-can-livepeers-incentives-enable-future-stakeholders-to-have-meaningful-buy-in/1055/2 "2020-03-26T18:29:30Z")

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Any ideas for how to make future token distribution more extensible? Current mechanisms include:

- Grants program
- Reward cut mechanic
- Various DAC’s/DAO’s/Transcode Pools that haven’t really become reality yet, but are theoretical.

Governance could be used for some more extreme options like routing a portion of inflation into distribution funds, bonding curves, merklemines, etc.