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Deposit your LINK to the stake.link LINK staking pool. If native Chainlink staking is full, the deposited LINK will be queued for staking in the stake.link Priority Pool. When space becomes available, the Priority Pool will auto-stake LINK to Chainlink native staking.
The Priority Pool allows users to stake LINK with a set-and-forget experience. When the LINK Staking cap of 45,000,000 is met, deposited LINK is queued to be staked in Chainlink Native Staking Contracts.
Just head to the stake.link LINK Staking Pool, deposit your LINK into the Priority Pool, and it is queued to be staked. Once space opens in LINK Native Staking Contracts, the Priority Pool will auto-stake deposited LINK to fill the open allotment.
stLINK is then distributed prorata, first claimable to reSDL holders, then -- if additional space is open -- to non reSDL holders. Users can claim stLINK at any point, and it will continue accruing rewards even if left unclaimed.
Enable Priority Staking Mode by holding reSDL in your wallet, which you get by staking and locking SDL. The more reSDL you have, the higher your status, which boosts your rewards and LINK staking allotment.
SDL is available on common decentralized exchange platforms for both Ethereum and Arbitrum mainnets.
- Ethereum: DefiLlama Aggregator, KyberSwap and Uniswap
- Arbitrum: Camelot
SDL (stake.link) is stake.link's protocol token. Protocol tokens generally serve as a means of facilitating operations, governance, or incentives within the platform's ecosystem. These tokens often grant holders voting rights on protocol changes and are used to reward participation or transaction validation.
When staked, SDL returns "reSDL", an NFT representation of SDL. reSDL stands for "reward escrow SDL". The reward escrow tokenomics model ("re" model), was inspired by the vote escrow tokenomics ("ve") model designed by Curve. Vote escrow is intended to promote long term participation via boosts and governance votes.
reSDL provides three benefits to users:
- Rewards: Earn rewards in the form of stLINK
- Priority Staking Mode: Priority access for LINK staking in the Priority Pool
- Governance: Enables voting for community procedures such as community council seat elections.
The more reSDL a user has, the more rewards they will earn, the more LINK and/or METIS they will be able to stake relative to other users, and the more governance weight they will have for community votes (e.g., council elections, etc.).
A liquidity pool is a collection of tokens from two assets in a smart contract and is used to facilitate asset trading on decentralized exchanges. For example, Uniswap provides a liquidity pool pair for "SDL" and "LINK", enabling users to swap LINK for SDL and vice versa.
Liquidity providers are individuals or entities that contribute assets to these pools, earning transaction fees (aka "incentives") in return for their services, based on the amount of liquidity they provide.
Per SLURP 10, stake.link has "incentivized" the Uniswap SDL/LINK Pool. Incentives are denominated in SDL from the stake.link treasury, and are distributed to liquidity providers. As of Feb 2024, the reward rate for providing liquidity on Uniswap is ~43.70%