RELAY Single Sided Staking goes LIVE!

Published on: 12.11.2021

The Relay team listened. Please check this announcement for why they decided to add an extra utility to the RELAY token: Target is to reward $RELAY holders not wanting to enter liquidity pools, and without compromising our pledge to avoid RELAY emissions. Sharing a LARGE portion of bridge revenues in valuable gas tokens with loyal RELAY holders is a GAME CHANGER!!!

TD;LR: Single sided staking of RELAY will reward stakers in gas tokens (like AVAX, MOVR, etc) without risk of impermanent loss.

The funding

The revenue architecture has now evolved

Until single sided staking, the collected bridge fees were essentially allocated to feed the Relay liquidity pools hosted at their various partners, and to buybacks and burn.

Since the launch on August 2nd, their bridge transaction volume trend has only been going one way: Up, month after month (more partners, more chains, more tokens to bridge, more bridge users). They recently adjusted the bridge fee per transaction to 10$ + 0.02% of the amount being bridged. Their monthly bridge revenue has already reached such a level that it gave us more elbow room to engage their next incentive action to reward RELAY holders not wanting to enter liquidity pools. While still being able to service the funding of the liquidity pools, and do sizable buybacks and burn.

If drawing a parallel with traditional finance: A RELAY token holder will be like a bridge shareholder and receiving dividends from its revenue. By holding the RELAY token, you essentially own real estate on the bridge, which generates passive income!

They want to offer decent yield rates to the single sided stakers. The allocation amount of the bridge revenues to each activated pillar of our revenue architecture will be a balancing act that they will tune depending on the collected bridge fees amount.

For the first 14 days after launch, $60K in total has been allocated for single sided staking rewards.

The Where

Regarding the supported chains for single sided staking, they won’t open it on all the chains supported by the bridges.

Single sided staking will be launched in several phases. For the first phase, you will stake on:

Avalanche if you want to earn AVAX
Moonriver if you want to earn MOVR
Polygon if you want to earn MATIC
Each chain gets $20K of rewards.

The how

Version v1 of single sided staking will be rolling lockup periods of 14 days each time you stake RELAY.

When you deposit RELAY tokens into single sided staking:

They are locked for 14 days, with no option to withdraw earlier. You will be able to claim them back after the 14 days expire

If Relay tokens are deposited again before the end of the 14 days expiration, the 14 days period is reinitialized and you will have to wait again for 14 days before being able to claim them back. In other words, the 14 days reset happens at each deposit event.

Rewards are emitted continuously, you will be able to harvest them at any time.

The When

Single sided staking is live!

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