How Staking Works
Creating a Staking Position
To participate in staking:
Connect your wallet and navigate to the staking page
Select a validator and click Stake button
Enter the amount of ASTER to stake
Choose a lock period
Confirm the transaction
Once confirmed, the staking position becomes active and begins earning rewards in future Epochs.
Rewards Pool per Epoch
Emissions per epoch at launch:
Base Rewards pool: 150,000 ASTER
Loyalty Rewards pool: 300,000 ASTER
Base APY
Base APY is the foundational reward layer tied to validator performance. Each validator receives a share of the Base APY pool proportional to the transactions it processes.
Validator reward calculation:
Validator Share = Validator Transactions ÷ Total Network Transactions
Validator Reward = Base APY Pool × Validator Share
Example:
If the Base APY pool is 100 ASTER and a validator processes 40% of network transactions:
Validator Reward = 100 × 40% = 40 ASTER
Your share of Base APY
After the validator receives its reward, users earn proportionally based on their stake within that validator.
User Base Reward Formula:
User Reward = Validator Reward × (User Stake ÷ Total Validator Stake) × (1 − Validator Commission)
Example:
Parameter
Value
Validator Reward
40
Total Validator Stake
10,000,000 ASTER
User Stake
500,000 ASTER
Commission
10%
User stake ratio = 500,000 ÷ 10,000,000 = 5%
After commission = 5% × (1 − 10%) = 4.5%
User reward = 40 × 4.5% = 1.8 ASTER
Loyalty Rewards
Loyalty Rewards are designed to reward long-term commitment. The longer you lock, the more you earn.
Reward weight is determined using veASTER and a Trading Volume Boost.
Power formula:
Power = veASTER × Boost
Where:
veASTER = Locked Amount × Time Weight
Time Weight = Remaining Lock Duration ÷ Maximum Lock Duration
Maximum lock duration = 208 weeks (approximately 4 years)
Trading Volume Boost
Your reward weight can be boosted based on your personal trading volume within each Epoch.
Your Epoch Trading Volume
Boost
> 500K
1.05
> 50M
1.15
> 200M
1.25
Loyalty Rewards Distribution
Loyalty Rewards are distributed proportionally based on Power share.
User Weekly Reward:
User Reward = Weekly Loyalty Pool × (User Power ÷ Total Network Power)
Example:
Parameter
Value
Weekly Loyalty Pool
100,000 ASTER
Total Network Power
1,000,000
User Power
5,000
User share = 5,000 ÷ 1,000,000 = 0.5%
User reward = 100,000 × 0.5% = 500 ASTER
Epoch Settlement
Rewards are calculated and distributed using weekly epoch cycles. Each epoch runs Monday through Sunday. A snapshot of staking data is taken at Monday 00:00 UTC.
Event
Timing
Epoch Start
Monday 00:00 UTC
Snapshot
Monday 00:00 UTC
Settlement
Sunday 00:00 UTC
Operations that take effect in the next epoch include:
New stake deposits
Additional stake top-ups
Lock extensions
Redeem requests
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