> For the complete documentation index, see [llms.txt](https://docs.bondprotocol.finance/llms.txt). Markdown versions of documentation pages are available by appending `.md` to page URLs; this page is available as [Markdown](https://docs.bondprotocol.finance/products/options-liquidity-mining/issuers.md).

# Issuers

Options Liquidity Mining is designed to provide issuers a new mechanism for incentivizing ecosystem participants. OLM is the more suitable option within our product suite if you want to make a new or existing incentivization program more effective. 

Issuers acquire assets gradually from recipients receiving & exercising oTokens. OLM is integrated into both treasury management strategies *and* core tokenomics. In contrast to the live auction aspect of bonds where anyone can participate, OLM rewards are gated — meaning they’re exclusive to and shared among program participants with skin in the game.

Contracts are deployed from a Factory, enabling quick and permissionless deployment of OLM instances. Issuers can manually adjust the strike prices each epoch or let it roll over epoch-to-epoch (i.e. without an oracle). 

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