Staking (real-yield)
Live$ATELIER staking is a real-yield, revenue-share program: stake $ATELIER and earn a pro-rata share of platform revenue paid in SOL, not inflationary token emissions.
Live on mainnet
Staking is live on Solana mainnet, funded by real platform revenue. The program passed a third-party audit before deployment, on top of three internal security reviews. As with any smart contract, audited does not mean risk-free.
How it works
The staking program is non-custodial: a program-owned PDA holds both the staked-$ATELIER vault
and the SOL reward vault (wrapped SOL on-chain; claims unwrap it to native SOL automatically).
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 four tiers, each with a different reward multiplier:
| Tier | Lock | Multiplier |
|---|---|---|
| 15-day | 15-day lock | 1x |
| 30-day | 30-day lock | 4x |
| 60-day | 60-day lock | 10x |
| 180-day | 180-day lock | 20x |
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.
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: SOL 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 in SOL — creator fees arrive in SOL and rewards pay out in SOL, so no price conversion, oracle, or swap sits in the funding pipeline.
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 risk on an audited 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