Staking Tier Structure

Notice-Based BASIS Staking

After TGE, BASIS holders can stake tokens in the BASIS vault to earn a share of platform fees, paid in USDB. Weight is not bought with a lock term. It is bought with notice: how much warning you agree to give before your tokens start coming back to you. You earn continuously, you can start the clock whenever you like, and nothing is ever trapped. The reward pays for participation and for keeping tokens out of circulation over the notice period, not for ownership itself.

The Ladder

Any holder may elect any rung, including Permanent. This is a public ladder, not a founders' allocation. The right-hand column describes where each group typically sits, not a restriction on who may choose what. An airdrop recipient who wants Annual weight elects Annual; the Permanent rung is open to anyone willing to burn.

Five Mechanics That Govern the Ladder

1. Notice releases linearly. Thirty tokens on 30 days' notice release one per day. There is no cliff at the end.
2. Cancelling notice restores full weight immediately. The clock resets entirely, and you are back at your rung's full weight from that moment.
3. Each position runs its own daily anniversary clock from its own notice timestamp. Positions do not share a schedule.
4. Released tokens keep earning at Open (1x) until claimed. Nothing stops earning simply because it has unlocked.
5. Effective weight decays linearly from your rung down to 1x across the notice period, averaging (W+1)/2 over the window.

Why Notice Instead of Locks

A lock has an end date, and end dates are coordination points. A notice period has no shared date at all: every position releases on its own anniversary clock, at one thirtieth or one three-hundred-and-sixty-fifth per day, whenever that holder chose to start. There is no moment at which the ladder unlocks. There is also no moment at which a holder is stuck, which is the part locks get wrong in the other direction.

What Is Not Staked

340M tokens, 34% of supply, are staked nowhere and earn no fee share at all. Treasury, marketing, ecosystem, both liquidity buckets and the advisor allocation. Fee share accrues only to weight actually placed on the ladder.

Burned founder tokens are not part of that 340M. They sit on the Permanent rung at 8x and do earn — see below.

Permanent Rung (Burned)

Electing Permanent burns the tokens permanently. They are never sold and never withdrawn, because they no longer exist as a transferable balance. What remains is the 8x weight against the fee stream. Founders' 15% (150M) sits here, but so may anyone else who elects it.

Presale and Advisor Allocations

Presale rounds and Advisor allocations do not use a separate vesting contract. The notice ladder is the vesting schedule. Each round lands on the rung matching its terms — Angel at Annual (365 days), Seed at Half-Year (180), Private at Quarterly (90), Public at Monthly (30 minimum) — and unlocks by giving notice from there, releasing daily over that period. Holders may elect a higher rung at any time, and may cancel notice to restore full weight. See Presale Rounds & Vesting for round-specific terms.

Airdrop Recipients

Airdrop tokens are fully unlocked at TGE: no vesting, no cliff, no notice period. They land at Open (1x) and earn from day one. Recipients may elect any higher rung whenever they choose, and may cancel back down at any time.

What the Fee Share Is Worth

No APY is projected here, because APY depends on volume nobody can honestly forecast. The mechanism is the number worth knowing: at the 1.5% headline rate, BASIS stakers take 0.720% of volume, which is $7,200 per $1M traded. Your share of that is your weighted stake over the total weighted stake.

Final tier parameters subject to change before TGE.