What about having a quadratic distribution with a certain cap which is increased over time?
This way, small investors will likely buy before whales when the cap reaches the amount they want to invest. In addition, it is not convenient for whales to buy from multiple addresses as the distribution is not linear and it will get more rewarding as the cap increases.
Whales will buy at some point if the remaining PLMs are not that many and FOMO starts. On the other hand, if small investors do not buy, larger amounts (higher cap) will be made available to whales.
If your main concern is to obtain the parachain and you consider that a quadratic lock guarantees it, go ahead
imo, it is also true that you will be more exposed to whales and a more ‘artificial’ price variation that will keep small investors away from the project
And looking more in the long term, when you try to renew the parachain in 2 years, what will happen? I do not know
having saying that if the projects begin to value the quadratic blocking, I will be very calm doing staking
Linear is the best to make it fair everyone, big or small, you will get the same ratio. Introducing a bonding curve to incentivize lockers on Day 1 would be great.