Active Staking
Active Staking determines when $DEDCAT stakers can claim their yield. To claim, you Bounce in DedcatBounce.
All $DEDCAT stakers earn yield continuously. Active Staking controls when you can claim what you've earned, not how much you earn.
The Perpetual Loop
When you Bounce to claim yield, that Bounce generates revenue and further yield to all $DEDCAT stakers.
The action required to claim yield, also funds the next round of yield:
You Bounce
Every Bounce generates protocol revenue
Revenue distributed as yield to $DEDCAT stakers, in $HYPE
To claim yield, stakers need to Bounce
This is the perpetual loop. Claiming feeds the system that pays you.
How It Works
Active Staking uses Bounce Debt to gate claiming.
When you're Active, you can claim yield anytime. When you're Inactive, claiming is blocked until you clear your Bounce Debt.
Your yield never stops accruing. Active Staking only gates withdrawals, never earnings.
Bounce Debt
Bounce Debt accumulates when you stop participating. Every 72 hours of inactivity adds 1 Bounce Debt. They block claiming until cleared.
To clear Bounce Debt you must Bounce.
1 Bounce Debt is cleared with 1 minimum (1x) Bounce.
10 Bounce Debt can be cleared with 10 minimum (1x) Bounces or 1 Bounce at 10x.
Bounce Debt doesn't:
Reduce your earned yield
Stop yield from accruing
Slash your tokens
Bounce Debt is a gate, not a penalty. Your yield is still there and will continue to accumulate.
Example
You stake $DEDCAT and don't participate for 3 months. You accumulate 30 Bounce Debt (1 per 72 hours = ~10 per month). Your yield grows the entire time.
When you're ready to claim, you need to clear 30 Bounce Debt. You could:
Bounce 30 times at 1x minimum
Bounce 3 times at 10x minimum
Any combination that totals 30 Bounces
That clears your Bounce Debt, you're immediately Active and can claim everything you earned while Inactive.
Nothing was lost or slashed. You participated once to unlock what you'd already earned.
Why This Design
Active Staking ties claiming to participation. Stakers who earn dApp revenue, help generate it.
Without Active Staking, $DEDCAT would be a passive yield token where some users extract value funded entirely by others' activity.
To stay Active, Bounce once every 72 hours.
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