Ronin: Builders POD Rewards Formula Adds RON Market-Impact Multiplier - 10 Sep 2026

Ronin updates its Builders POD rewards formula with a RON market-impact multiplier. Under the revised formula, net sellers of RON see their scores adjusted down, while net buyers and holders are rewarded, with the adjustment scaled by total traded volume. The change rewrites how builder emissions are distributed across the ecosystem.The mechanism creates a structural incentive for ecosystem projects to support RON demand, since selling now reduces POD scores while buying or holding improves them. Because the adjustment scales with traded volume, larger projects have proportionally more influence on the outcome. Investors may reprice RON around this ongoing buy-pressure mechanism tied to builder emissions, though the effect depends on how actively projects trade in response to the new scoring.Today the team shipped an update to the POD rewards formula!The change is meant to achieve a few things:• Penalize builders that attempt to game the POD system• Reward projects that demonstrate their conviction in Recently, there've been attempts to game the system…