Paying the community instead of the exchanges
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A Service Infrastructure Pool (SIP) combines elements of a decentralised exchange (DEX) and a DAO. Normally, DEX trading fees go to a centralised operator’s profit. In a SIP, those fees are pooled and can be voted on by token holders to fund infrastructure improvements or other community initiatives.
Instead of letting a centralised exchange collect trading fees, a SIP aggregates them into one pool. Stakeholders then decide how to use those pooled funds. They might pay infrastructure operators, fund new features, or distribute incentives that benefit the broader network. This is often coupled with a way for the SIP to sell an autonomous product or service. The revenue of which goes directly into providing additional liquidity to the SIP account. This allows the SIP to grow over time, potentially to a point where the fees generated from token exchanges are able to fund all or most of the infrastructure that is operating on the wider network.
In SPK Network, users can buy mining tokens (like LARYNX) to improve their share of mining rewards directly from the SIP account. Purchasing these tokens requires locking up dollars (HBD or similar) in a liquidity pool. The key points are:
This setup discourages hostile takeovers because any large purchase of mining tokens raises the token’s price (benefiting existing holders), and the attacker’s funds permanently bolster the ecosystem’s liquidity.
A typical DEX allows people to stake liquidity, earn fees, and withdraw profits. In a SIP, part of (or all) the funds remain in the pool rather than returning to individual stakers. The pool’s growing liquidity produces trading fees, and those fees can be:
By design, it is like a DAO controlling a permanent liquidity stash, with revenue streams continuously replenished by users buying service tokens (e.g., mining tokens which improve a users mining capabilities in the network).
As SIP's grow they can be combined as multi-sig liquidity and collateral providers, stored on the base layer. For additional security, they can employ a massive mutli-sig technology such as BLS signatures. This allows for a reduction in size of the signature storage required in each block and therefore accommodates 400 up to thousands of keyholders on the main multi-sig account (SIP) in the eco-system. This means that much larger amounts of liquidity can be securely stored for various purposes by various parties on chain who seek increased security for their liquidity providers.
Over time, more participants buying tokens for better mining efficiency drives more funds into the SIP. The liquidity pool gradually swells. As it does, it may earn enough in trading fees to:
The end goal is an ownerless, decentralised “pot of liquidity” that pays for the chain’s operations and growth, acting like a shock absorber during market downturns.
centralised exchanges such as Binance or Coinbase collect trading fees for corporate profit. A SIP, by contrast, directs its fees and other revenue streams into an on-chain pool governed by community votes. Rather than benefiting a few large shareholders, these funds can:
This model reclaims revenue streams that would otherwise flow into centralised parties.
When users buy mining or service tokens from the SIP, funds go into the SIP and never leave, creating a permanent, increasing liquidity reserve.
The community decides how to allocate SIP reserves, ensuring democratic management.
As more people seek the service tokens, the SIP grows, generating fees that can fund infrastructure or offset downturns.
A would be attacker must inject significant capital to gain leverage, thereby strengthening the ecosystem
in the process.
Service Infrastructure Pools blend DeFi liquidity pooling with DAO governance to create sustainable, community owned revenue mechanisms. They transform trading fees into collective assets that keep infrastructure running and development funded, all without centralised exchange intermediaries.
