Staking Incentives

How Each Participant Type Interacts with Staking

The lockup status of your BASIS tokens depends on how you got them. Once tokens are liquid, anyone can place them on the notice ladder at any rung.

Presale allocations arrive already sitting on the ladder at their round's rung, earning fee share from day one. There is no cliff and no separate vesting contract: the notice period is the vesting schedule. A holder unlocks by giving notice, which starts a daily release over that period and steps their weight down as it runs. Cancelling notice restores full weight immediately.

See Presale Rounds & Vesting for the presale schedule and Staking Tier Structure for the full ladder mechanics.

The Notice Ladder

Weight is bought with notice, not with term. You give warning before your tokens start returning, and the length of that warning sets your weight. The reward pays for participation and for keeping tokens out of circulation over the notice period, not for ownership itself.

Any holder may elect any rung, including Permanent. It is a public ladder, not a founders' allocation. The right-hand column says where each group usually sits, not who is allowed where.

The Five Mechanics

1. Notice releases linearly. Thirty tokens on 30 days' notice release one per day. No cliff at the end.
2. Cancelling notice restores full weight immediately. The clock resets entirely.
3. Each position runs its own daily anniversary clock from its own notice timestamp.
4. Released tokens keep earning at Open (1x) until claimed.
5. Effective weight decays linearly from your rung to 1x over the notice period, averaging (W+1)/2.

Fee Distribution

Fee payouts are made in USDB. The split has two columns, because it changes at TGE.

At TGE, 48% of fees - four fifths of the company's current 60% - route to the BASIS staking contract.

Two hard contract limits sit underneath this: the BASIS staking share can never fall below 30%, and every fee setter is capped at 200bps. Neither is a policy that can be revised by announcement.

Each staker's share of any distribution is:

your share = (your_tokens × your_weight) / Σ(all_stakers_tokens × weights)

340M tokens, 34% of supply, are staked nowhere and earn no fee share at all. Weight only accrues to tokens actually placed on the ladder.

Why This Design Works

• Founders eat last and forever. Founders' 15% is burned permanently, never sold and never withdrawn. They can only earn through fee share at the 8x Permanent rung, which means they only earn when the protocol earns. No founder dump is structurally possible.
• Presale holders start their own clock. Every round lands on a notice period rather than a cliff, so zero presale tokens hit the market on day one of TGE — not because they are locked, but because no notice has run yet. Once notice is given the release is a daily stream, and the holder can cancel at any point.
• Airdrop recipients keep full optionality. Tokens are fully unlocked at TGE and land at Open (1x), earning immediately. Stake higher, cancel back down, sell, hold: your choice.
• Notice replaces the unlock date. Every position releases on its own anniversary clock, so there is no shared date for the market to trade against, and no holder is ever trapped.
• Aligned incentives. Founders, presalers, airdrop earners and post-TGE stakers all earn more when the platform earns more.

Final ladder parameters and weights are subject to change before TGE.