Kava Boost

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The case of Kava Boost is different from everything we've encountered before, it's a protocol created by the Kava team which works similar to a masterchef contract: users deposit coins and they get rewards, which in this case come from chain inflation.

Previously what we've done with similar situations is that:

• For masterchef projects we listed them but we kept their own gov tokens deposited into the protocol separated under the staking toggle. Since Kava Boost has no gov token it's not easy to determine what's the closest course of auction, you could argue that since it was built by Kava Team and its rewards come from Kava inflation KAVA should be seen as the gov token and separated into staking, but you could also argue that it has no gov token and thus everything should be counted into TVL with no separations.
• This mechanism is very similar to chain staking: users deposit coins somewhere, then chain mints new coins through inflation and distributes them among users, with the difference that here risk is even lower since users don't have any locking or slashing risks that usually come from slashing. We've been very adamant about not listing any chain staking into defillama as TVL (we list liquid staking but dont include it into chain TVL by default) as that can't be considered DeFi, so it would be a bit weird to now say that we are going to count a protocol that is very similar to staking with less risk, thus counting Kava Boost into chain TVL would lead to a weird methodology compared to the one applied to all other chains.

However, we understand that it's still a contract where people are depositing funds, so we could list it while not counting it towards chain TVL. This way it would appear on the list of protocols on Kava and users would be able to see how relevant it is compared to the other protocols, and at the same time we would keep our methodology very much inline compared to all other chains.