Stake it, Stake it, Baby

You asked for it? We're delivering it: more dev updates. Let's talk about three exciting features coming to Stratus: universal staking, Stratus liquidity-lock pools, and new AVI utilities. 🦊

Everything you read about in this blog is currently live and verified on testnet. The Stratus app dashboard is coming along nicely, and we'll be able to share more of the look at feel in the near future.

Stratus Staking and Liquidity-Lock Pools

When a project launches on Stratus, it can lock its liquidity in a custom, non-custodial pool that also shares the trading fees automatically, without anyone, including us, having access to the funds.

Why Combine Liquidity Locks and Staking?

Rather than integrating an existing liquidity locker, we built our own locking protocol specifically for Stratus. Existing solutions are designed primarily to escrow LP positions until a lock expires. They generally don't provide a native way to route trading fees into staking rewards while preserving immutable, non-custodial guarantees. And, they can be expensive, charging steep native token fees and/or collecting a stake of the creator's total liquidity as a fee.

We wanted to make something better-fit for the Stratus lifecycle. As trading activity grows, locked liquidity continues earning trading fees, and those fees can be directed toward staking rewards according to immutable rules established at launch. The result is a self-reinforcing feedback loop: projects launch, liquidity trades, fees accumulate, long-term participants are rewarded, and communities become more resilient without relying solely on treasury-funded emissions.

For creators, this means a single onchain system can establish liquidity credibility, reward long-term holders, and reduce dependence on ongoing treasury-funded incentive programs. 🎉

The Stratus launch model is built around this positive feedback loop.

Non-Custodial by Design

Once a pool is created, it is immutable and ownerless. There is no admin key, no upgrade path, and no platform authority over it once it exists. It has no ability to modify pools that have already been deployed. The principle we built around is simple: immutability lives where the funds live. Your liquidity is a set of rules, not a middleman.

Two Ways a Pool Comes to Life

• Launch-integrated. When a creator launches a project on Stratus, it can atomically lock that LP position into a Stratus pool within the same transaction. The position remains locked for the chosen duration while continuing to earn trading fees. Token fees can then be distributed according to the pool's immutable configuration: whether to stakers, the project treasury, a burn, or another destination selected when the pool is created. ETH fees are awarded to the project's creator wallet, minus a platform fee.
• Satellite. Any existing token can create a standalone rewards pool at any time, funded by sponsors rather than trading fees. This is useful for projects that want to bootstrap incentives before trading volume arrives, or who want to offer staking programs without building their own bespoke solutions.

Every trade against the locked liquidity generates trading fees. Anyone can call the pool's collect-and-distribute function to split those fees according to the pool's immutable configuration.

Worth underlining: Stratus only collects fees in ETH. A project's own token is never taken by the platform. This allows Stratus to maintain credible neutrality on project launches.

Lock Longer, Keep More

The platform's ETH-side fee follows a simple step schedule based on how long liquidity is locked:

The schedule is calculated by lock duration rather than a fixed menu of options. Once a rate is established for a lock segment, it remains unchanged for that segment.

Extending a lock later does not retroactively improve the fee rate on time already committed. Instead, the extension begins a new segment that qualifies for the better tier once the current one ends. Locking beyond twelve months provides no additional discount beyond guaranteeing the lowest platform fee.

How Staking Works

Users can stake either the project's native token or the LP position itself if they provided liquidity. Rewards are always paid in that project's own token, making every pool self-contained without cross-token dependencies.

Two mechanics help keep the system fair. First, an unstake cooldown: a creator-defined delay (fifteen minutes at minimum) between requesting an unstake and withdrawing. Second, a reward drip: newly collected fees stream out over a configurable period instead of being distributed immediately.

Together these mechanisms prevent "flash staking," where someone attempts to stake immediately before a distribution to capture rewards. LP positions are also weighted by their real in-range value, so stale or out-of-range positions naturally stop earning. We validated these edge cases through adversarial testing on testnet.

Satellite Sponsorship is Open to Everyone

Trading fees are not the only reward source. Anyone can contribute directly to a pool's reward balance, allowing projects or communities to fund incentives even before meaningful trading volume exists.

AVI Staking

Stratus will support staking rewards for AVI, sponsored by us. Trading activity generates fees, fees flow into staking rewards, and long-term participants benefit from real network usage rather than newly issued tokens.

Here's the concrete part for AVI holders: since launch, AVI's own liquidity has accrued roughly 90 million AVI in trading fees, representing about 0.9% of total supply. That accrued balance seeds AVI's staking pool and is configured to stream to stakers over a twelve-month period through the exact same permissionless mechanism every other pool uses.

No new AVI is created, and no treasury-held AVI is being distributed. These rewards come exclusively from trading fees that have already accrued.

The figures above are current as of writing and are subject to change. Trading fees continue to accrue, and final distribution parameters may be adjusted before mainnet.

At its own discretion, Aviator funds ecosystem grants, hackathons and game jams, competition prizes, exchange listings, and other ecosystem initiatives by buying AVI on the open market. These are ordinary operating expenditures paid to builders, winners, and partners.

Foxtails, Too

Staking and providing liquidity are among the many activities that earn Foxtails, our ecosystem-wide loyalty points. As always, Foxtails are not a token, they live offchain, and we'll share more about how these systems fit together as we move toward mainnet.

SkyBridge Updates

We're proud to announce that SkyBridge is coming to Robinhood Chain immediately! We are excited to support the network, and believe it will be a great spot for builders of all backgrounds to get support and create great apps.

Where it Stands Today

Live and verified across four Uniswap v4 public testnets: Ethereum, Base, Arbitrum, and Unichain.

The Stratus staking dashboard is already built and reading live onchain state. Mainnet is next, and we'll share deployment updates as rollout approaches. This is the foundation for every project that launches on Stratus. We're looking forward to seeing what builders create with it.

Thanks for flying with us. 🦊✈️

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