Deposit LANT and never touch it again. 1% of every sell becomes WETH the protocol earned, a stranger turns that into LANT for a bounty nobody set, and your share is worth more without you doing anything.
No emissions. No reward token to sell. No keeper to go down.
The bounty is an auction
An optimizer that needs a keeper stops the day the keeper does. So there is no keeper, and the reward for doing the work is not a number somebody set: it starts at 0.1% right after a lighting and climbs in a straight line to 2% over 6 hours.
Whoever is willing to work cheapest calls first, and by calling ends the auction at their own price. The protocol pays the lowest fee the market will currently accept.
Yield vests, it does not land
If a purchase hit the share price in one block, the play would be to deposit the block before and leave the block after. So a drop does not land, it decays into the share price over 24 hours.
The honest cost of that: arriving mid-drip earns you the remainder of a drop, not all of it. Both halves of that are tested.
Routing is open. Pricing is not.
A lighting may take any path from WETH to LANT, up to 3 hops through pools the protocol has never heard of, which is how a better route gets used the day one exists without redeploying anything. What the caller cannot choose is the price: every fill is checked against the canonical pool’s own spot price in the same transaction and refused if it comes back worse.