Over the past months, BNB Chain's block time was cut by about three times, causing the chain to operate thrice as fast as it did before. However, this also causes the RPTR emissions to run three times as fast as before.
The latest BNB Chain hard forks (the Fermi and Maxwell hard forks) caused BNB Chain blocks to be mined every 0.45 seconds rather than every 1.5 seconds. Since the MasterChef (the contract handling the farms and staking) issues rewards on a per-block basis rather than a per-second basis, this resulted in a surge in RPTR emissions (more blocks in a day => more RPTR in a day).
Hence, we're considering cutting the reward allocated staking/farms by three times, which would rebalance the rewards.
However, due to the frequence of block time reductions, as well as the large amounts of RPTR reaching the Treasury (making such reductions a functional but nonelegant solution), we're also considering shutting down the Farm/Staking (both of which are managed by the MasterChef smart contract), making its emissions zero.
If the "Divide Rewards by 3" choice passes, the allocation points of the RPTR Staking pool (PID 0) and the RPTR-BNB Farm (PID 1) would be cut by three times:
If the "Shut the MasterChef down" choice passes, the MasterChef's BONUS_MULTIPLIER (which multiplies its emissions) would be set to zero, shutting down future farm/staking rewards.
If the "Do nothing" choice passes, the allocation points will remain at their current level.