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How the Daily Rate Changes
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Your daily rate is a share, not a promise. Each day the staking contract creates a capped amount of new INKY for the INKY plans, at most 10,000 INKY, and divides it among everything staked in them. When the total staked goes up, the same amount is split more ways and every share gets smaller. When it goes down, every share gets larger. Your rate can change on a day you did nothing.
Why your daily rate changes
- More INKY staked by everyone: a smaller share for each INKY, and a lower rate.
- Less INKY staked, for example as fixed-term contracts reach maturity or people withdraw from the flexible plan: a larger share, and a higher rate.
- What does not change: your principal, your plan and its term. Only the daily share moves.
The numbers behind it
Below 1,000,000 INKY staked in the common pools (INKY Pool, INKY Pool 12 months and INKY Pool 36 months), the contract creates 1% of everything staked, so the rate per INKY stays at 1% a day.
From 1,000,000 INKY staked, the ceiling of 10,000 INKY applies. The amount created stays the same while the amount staked keeps growing, so each INKY's share of it gets smaller.
| Total staked in the common pools | New INKY that day | Average daily rate |
|---|---|---|
| 2,500,000 INKY | 10,000 INKY | 0.40% |
| 5,000,000 INKY | 10,000 INKY | 0.20% |
| 10,000,000 INKY | 10,000 INKY | 0.10% |
The averages are before the 25% performance fee. The formula and the ceilings themselves are in Emission.
Your plan sets the size of your share
Inside that total, your plan decides how big your share is. A 36-month contract receives more of the daily amount than a 12-month one, which receives more than flexible, and within a plan the share follows how much each person staked. So each pool pays a different rate, and all of them move together when the total staked moves.
Locking does not fix the rate. A fixed-term contract fixes the term and the principal, and its daily share still moves with the total staked.
Why the rate isn't fixed
A fixed rate would make the contract create more INKY with every new amount staked, with no limit. At a fixed 0.25% a day, 16,000,000 INKY staked would need 40,000 new INKY every day, four times the common pools' ceiling.
More INKY on the market pushes its price down. A staker would receive a higher percentage of a token worth less, including the INKY they already hold. The daily ceiling and the 200,000,000 INKY hard cap are what keep the supply predictable.
What each pool's rate follows
| Pool | What its rate follows |
|---|---|
| INKY Pool, INKY Pool 12 months, INKY Pool 36 months | The capped daily emission above, shared by everything staked in the three plans and split by lock-up tier |
| Arena Staking Pool | Its own daily emission, added on top of the plans above, plus half of every fee the Arena charges on a winning round, so it also moves with Arena activity |
| USDT Pool | Its own rate, paid in USDT and funded by a portion of the same daily emission. See USDT Pool |
| CAKE Pool | PancakeSwap's own rewards, not the INKY emission |
The app always shows the current rate of each pool before you open a contract.
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