Everything worth asking first.

Immediately. A position earns from the second it is opened, and the figure on your dashboard is recomputed from elapsed time on every render — it is not a balance that a job tops up once a day.

APR is the flat annual rate. APY is what that rate becomes once rewards are folded back into the principal — which only the compounding vault does. Cards and tables always label which one they are showing, because the two are not comparable.

No — a second deposit opens a second position. Each one keeps its own start date, rate and unlock date, which is what makes a per-position countdown meaningful. Your dashboard totals them.

Nothing, for you. The rate is copied onto the position when it opens and travels with it. A change to a pool only affects deposits made after it.

From a flexible pool, whenever you like. From a term pool, once the lock ends — and then after the pool's cooldown, if it has one. The cooldown is stated on the pool page before you deposit and counted down on the position afterwards.

Each term pool sets a penalty as a percentage of principal, and most also forfeit unpaid rewards. The exact figures in tokens are shown in a confirmation dialog before anything happens, and they are produced by the same code that performs the exit.

No. Accrual stops the moment you start unstaking. A cooldown that still paid would be a better place to keep funds than the pool itself.

2% of rewards when they are claimed. There is no deposit fee and no withdrawal fee — your principal is never touched except by an early-exit penalty you chose to take.

When someone who joined through your code claims, you are credited 5% of that claim. It is paid by the protocol on top, so a referred wallet never earns less than an unreferred one.

Smart contract risk, token price risk, and the risk that a rate you are quoted today is lower tomorrow. Staking is not a deposit account and nothing here is insured. See security for how the contracts are structured.

Not yet. This deployment has no staking contract configured, so it runs in demo mode on Sepolia: positions and claims are recorded in the application’s own database and no funds move. To go live, set NEXT_PUBLIC_STAKING_ADDRESS and NEXT_PUBLIC_TOKEN_ADDRESS in your environment and restart. Every screen is identical either way — that is the point of the demo.

Yes, and they are the only thing that can be. Claims and withdrawals stay open whatever else happens: pausing the exit of a staking product is how a protocol loses the people using it.