Staking design
How rewards work, where they come from, and how the design can change.
The deflationary flywheel
Staking $avoid does three things at once. You lock supply out of circulation. Platform revenue burns more supply permanently. You earn supply back as your share of the reward pool.
Your staked tokens are off the market for the lock period
20% of card payment revenue buys $avoid and burns it forever
50% of card payment revenue buys $avoid and rewards stakers
You remove supply from circulation. You get supply back for doing it. The longer you lock, the bigger your share of the pool.
How it works
Same Phantom or Solflare wallet you already use
Longer lock = higher reward multiplier
$avoid sent to a verifiable on-chain vault
Weekly distribution from platform revenue (Phase 4)
Where rewards come from
This is a pump.fun token. No mint authority. No inflation. Staking rewards come from real platform revenue. Every card-paid audit funds the reward pool. No tokens are printed. The pool is bought from the open market.
Half of every dollar of platform revenue flows back to stakers. 20% buys $avoid from the market and burns it permanently. 30% funds platform operations: infrastructure (Vercel, RPC, monitoring), an emergency reserve for incidents and security, and listing/audit costs as the project grows.
No marketing budget in the platform fee split. Growth comes from shipping product, organic Spaces, and word of mouth. Not paid promotion. No founder cut from platform fees either. Founder compensation is handled separately through the original token launch's trading fee allocation, not from this pool.
Staking tiers
Minimum stake: 10,000 $avoid (anti-spam floor). Choose your lock period. Longer commitment = bigger share of the reward pool.
- 100% reward weight
- Trial commitment
- Unlocks at lock end (Phase 2 ships unstake)
- 200% reward weight
- 10% audit burn discount (Phase 3)
- Early supporter badge
- 350% reward weight
- 25% audit burn discount (Phase 3)
- 2 free audits / month (Phase 3)
- 600% reward weight
- 50% audit burn discount (Phase 3)
- 5 free audits / month (Phase 3)
- Governance votes
What the percentages actually mean: these are share weightings, not yield rates. 100% means you earn your token-proportional share of the staker reward pool. 600% means your share is weighted six times as large as someone at 100% with the same stake. Holders who don't stake get nothing from the pool. Even 100% is a benefit because you're in the pool at all.
We use percentage notation because this is real share math, not memecoin multipliers. A 600% weighted share distributes proportionally from a pool funded by actual platform revenue. No inflation. No printed tokens. No hidden curves.
Reward distribution
Every week, the reward pool is distributed proportionally to all stakers based on their weighted stake.
your_share = (your_stake × tier_weight) / total_weighted_stakeweekly_reward = your_share × weekly_reward_poolExample: you stake 500,000 $avoid in the 90-day tier (350% weight). If total weighted stake across all stakers is 50,000,000 and the weekly reward pool is 100,000 $avoid, you earn:
(500,000 × 3.5) / 50,000,000 × 100,000 = 3,500 $avoid / weekEarly staker advantage: at launch, the reward pool will be small because card payment volume is still ramping. Fewer stakers means each one earns a bigger share per token. As volume grows, the pool grows. Early stakers benefit from being early.
Technical architecture
Staking uses a hybrid on-chain/off-chain model. Tokens are held in a verifiable vault on Solana. Accounting and reward calculation happen server-side.
Why not a full on-chain program? Pragmatism. A hybrid approach ships faster, costs less, and the vault is still fully auditable. If staking scales, migrating to an Anchor program is a clear upgrade path.
Safety and transparency
Anyone can verify holdings on Solscan
Tokens can't be withdrawn before lock expires (Phase 2)
Rewards from revenue, not token printing
All staking code is public and auditable
How this design can change
This is a draft. Tier structure, multipliers, fee allocation, and reward mechanics may evolve based on community feedback and platform metrics during the design phase. Changes will be announced in Telegram and by @avoidaiwriting on X before they take effect — tag us with questions.
If the economics don't work at scale, the design will evolve. Worst case, the staking system can be sunset and the reward pool returned to permanent burn. The 50% staker share doesn't disappear. It goes back to benefiting all holders via deflation.
Want to follow the redesign?
Community staking is paused pending architecture review. The operator's 10% commitment is locked on-chain via Streamflow contracts in the meantime — see tokenomics for the five contract addresses. Updates on next steps will land in Telegram.