Remove Superfluid Staking and Deprecate the x/superfluid Module

Proposal Discussion Superfluid Staking
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This proposal removes superfluid staking from all pools and approves the removal of the Superfluid functionality in a future software upgrade.

Superfluid Staking

Superfluid Staking allows a portion of the value within a pool to be staked to secure the Osmosis chain. The set of pools available for this functionality was last modified in Proposal 807 to only include OSMO pairings with core assets in line with the OSMO decoupling initiative and encouraging the migration of passive liquidity to form a base for Supercharged liquidity pools.

In the 11 months since this change was implemented, the uptake of this set of Superfluid pools has been poor, with only 38k OSMO currently being staked through Superfluid staking, 0.011% of staking security.

This may be due to Superfluid only being available on passive positions, which may be less competitive than newer strategies that offer similar passivity but higher yield.

Proposed Change

As part of an ongoing project to unfork Osmosis from the mainline Cosmos SDK to reduce maintenance complexity, this proposal asks that the x/Superfluid module be deprecated in a future software upgrade.

Doing this will return Osmosis staking mechanisms to the Cosmos SDK standard, reducing the complexity of further chain upgrades and reducing the security surface of any further changes to the staking system, such as the implementation of the Bitcoin Secured Network module and contracts.

As a preparatory step, this proposal removes Superfluid staking from all currently approved pools to simplify future software upgrades. As with previous proposals that adjusted the set of Superfluid pools, users using this feature will be unbonded on the parameter change completing.

Pools Impacted

Pool ID Quote Base Fees TVL
1464 OSMO USDC 0.01% 347,339
1995 OSMO BTC 0.20% 212,152
1400 OSMO USDC 0.05% 99,846
1281 OSMO USDC 0.2% 8,825
1996 OSMO ETH 0.20% 2,601
2337 OSMO SOL 0.20% 1,278
1263 OSMO USDT 0.05% 44
1248 OSMO USDT 0.20% 4
1265 OSMO USDT 0.01% 1

Target Onchain Date: 9th July 2025

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Sounds like a good move (as long as my voting power doesn’t go down to much hahaha)

On a more serious note: it is indeed good to remove specific code if it is barely used at all. Reducing coding complexity is not a meme, because it will most likely also remove potential attack surfaces of custom code. The more code we could share which is battle-tested on many networks the better.

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