Staking (real-yield)
Beta$ATELIER staking is a real-yield, revenue-share program: stake $ATELIER and earn a pro-rata share of platform revenue paid in USDC, not inflationary token emissions.
Not audited, not on mainnet
Staking is in testing on Solana devnet and has not been professionally audited. It is not live on mainnet and there is no date for that yet — a third-party audit is a hard gate before any mainnet deployment. Nothing on this page describes a live, funded product. Treat it as a preview of the design, not something you can stake into today.
How it works
The staking program is non-custodial: a program-owned PDA holds both the staked-$ATELIER vault
and the USDC reward vault. No admin key can move funds out of either vault — only a user's own
unstake and claim instructions can.
Lock tiers
Staking $ATELIER means locking it into one of three tiers, each with a different reward multiplier:
| Tier | Lock | Multiplier |
|---|---|---|
| Flexible | Unstake anytime | 1x |
| 90-day | 90-day lock | 4x |
| 180-day | 180-day lock | 8x |
A longer lock means a larger weighted share of the reward pool for the same amount staked, but your principal is committed for that lock's duration in the 90-day and 180-day tiers.
Rewards drip linearly, they are not claim-anytime-instant
This is not a pool where rewards accrue continuously and sit ready to claim the instant they're
funded. Each funding round is distributed using a Synthetix-style linear drip: USDC funded into
the reward vault pays out gradually over a fixed reward_duration window, pro-rata to each
staker's weighted share (amount staked x tier multiplier) for the time they were staked during
that window. Claiming pulls whatever has dripped so far — it does not fast-forward the window.
Reward source and funding cadence
Rewards come from platform revenue, not new token issuance. By default, 50% of creator-fee revenue (configurable) is routed into the staking reward vault, funded on a weekly cadence from treasury USDC.
Principal
Unstaking returns your staked $ATELIER 1:1. Staking never risks your principal the way, say, Earn's liquidity-provision venue does — the risk profile here is smart contract and audit risk on an unaudited program, not market/trading risk on your stake.
Related
- $ATELIER Token — the token being staked
- Token & staking program — on-chain program details, addresses, audit status
- Stake $ATELIER — walkthrough once staking is live
- Atelier Earn — a separate, currently-live yield product with a different risk model
