You don't hold uSTAKE.
You plant it.
A Uniswap v4 hook takes a cut of every swap and routes it to the people who locked their tokens. Nothing is minted, nothing is promised — the yield is trading revenue plus a Reserve you can watch drain in real time.
Reading chain state…
Volume in, yield out
There is no emissions schedule and no inflation. Every token paid to a planter was collected from a trader or was sitting in a Reserve funded the same way.
Someone swaps
The v4 hook takes a slice of every trade — in uSTAKE on the way in, in ETH on the way out. It never touches wallet-to-wallet transfers, so holding and staking stay free.
The ETH buys back
Anyone can call harvest. It sweeps LP fees, spends every wei of collected ETH buying uSTAKE on the open market, and forwards the lot to the vault. Selling literally funds the buyback.
Planters get paid
Revenue lands in the vault and is split between yield paid out now and the Reserve that backs the target rate. Your share is your principal times your lock multiplier.
It compounds itself
Yield folds back into principal, which raises your weight, which raises your yield. Keepers do it for you for a 0.25% bounty — you can leave a Plot alone for a month and come back to it grown.
The longer you commit, the deeper the roots
Your multiplier applies to your share of every distribution. Because the pot is fixed and externally funded, a high multiplier does not dilute anyone — it only decides how a finite amount of real revenue is split between the patient and the impatient.
| Tier | Lock | Multiplier | Target / day | Compounded | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
SPROUT | 7d | 1.00x | 10% | 1.3e15% | Plant → |
SAPLING | 30d | 1.30x | 13% | 2.4e19% | Plant → |
GROVE | 90d | 1.70x | 17% | 7.7e24% | Plant → |
IRONWOOD | 180d | 2.20x | 22% | 3.3e31% | Plant → |
OLD GROWTH | 365d | 3.00x | 30% | 3.9e41% | Plant → |
The compounded column is the arithmetic result of the daily rate held for a year. It is shown for completeness, not as a forecast: sustaining it needs daily trading volume of roughly twice the staked value, and when the Reserve empties the rate falls back to whatever the swap tax alone supports.
Locked, but not stuck
Your position is an NFT
ERC-721Planting mints an ERC-721 Plot. The lock lives on the Plot, not on your wallet — so a locked position can still be sold, moved or used as collateral while the principal underneath keeps earning.
Yield is never locked
Always liquidPrincipal is committed for the term you chose. The yield it throws off is claimable at any moment, including one second after you plant.
Leaving early pays the ones who stay
10% floor · 24hUprooting before maturity costs a penalty that decays to zero as the term runs down, with a hard 10% floor for the first 24 hours. Thirty percent of it is burned; the rest is redistributed to everyone still planted.
Upgrade without unstaking
Fortify · GraftFortify moves a Plot to a longer tier and a bigger multiplier in one transaction. Graft merges two Plots into one, keeping the stronger tier and the later unlock. Neither can shorten a lock.
Put it in the ground.
Choose a term, plant your uSTAKE, and let the swap tax do the work.