Token & economy

Staking

Stake $ASHAO to earn protocol rewards and unlock the worker earnings boost.

Staking $ASHAO does two things at once: it earns you a share of protocol revenue, and it boosts how much you make running a worker. One token, two reasons to lock it.

Why stake

70%
Worker share (base)
80%
Worker share (staked)
Treasury
Reward source
  • Protocol rewards. Half of all treasury revenue is paid to stakers, pro-rata to stake. This is funded by real usage — see The $ASHAO token.
  • Stake-to-work boost. A worker run by a staker keeps 80% of the value it generates instead of the base 70%. Staking aligns the people providing compute with the network they're securing.

Stack the two

If you run a worker, staking pays you twice: once through the boosted earnings on every job you complete, and again through your share of treasury rewards.

How to stake

  1. Connect your wallet and open the $ASHAO dashboard.
  2. Enter an amount and confirm the stake.
  3. Your staked balance starts earning immediately and your worker share jumps to 80%.

Staking and unstaking are simple POST calls that update your stake and your account's staked balance:

stake / unstake
// Stake
await fetch("/api/staking/stake", {
  method: "POST",
  headers: { "content-type": "application/json" },
  body: JSON.stringify({ amount }),
});

// Unstake
await fetch("/api/staking/unstake", {
  method: "POST",
  headers: { "content-type": "application/json" },
  body: JSON.stringify({ amount }),
});

How rewards are calculated

Your slice of the staking pool is your stake divided by the total staked, applied to the rewards half of treasury revenue for the period. The more the network earns, and the larger your relative stake, the larger your share.

reward share (conceptual)
const rewardsPool = treasuryRevenue * TREASURY.stakingRewardPct; // 50%
const yourShare = (yourStake / totalStaked) * rewardsPool;

Unstaking

You can unstake at any time. Unstaking returns $ASHAO to your wallet and drops your worker share back to the base 70% for jobs completed after that point. Rewards already accrued are yours.

Not financial advice

Staking rewards depend on network usage and can vary. This page documents the mechanism; it is not a yield guarantee or investment advice.

New to the earnings side? Read Run a worker to see where the 80% boost actually lands.