⚠️Claim & Stake Penalties

Projects can tie airdrop distributions to staking behavior — requiring or incentivizing recipients to stake their claimed tokens. Penalties apply when users claim without staking, encouraging long-term token alignment over immediate selling.

How it works

When claim & stake penalties are enabled, claiming tokens without staking them results in a reduced payout. The penalty can be a flat rate or tiered based on how long the user stakes.

Example: flat penalty

Full allocation:        1,000 tokens
Claiming without stake: 700 tokens  (30% penalty)
Penalty burned/returned: 300 tokens

Example: tiered by staking period

Staking period	Penalty	User receives
No stake	50%	500 / 1,000
30 days	25%	750 / 1,000
90 days	10%	900 / 1,000
180 days	0%	1,000 / 1,000

Configuration

Penalty settings are defined at deployment time in the Airdrop Distributor contract:

• Penalty rate — percentage deducted when claiming without staking

• Staking contract — the address where tokens must be staked

• Staking tiers — optional time-based tiers with decreasing penalty rates

• Penalty destination — burned, returned to treasury, or redistributed

Penalties are enforced by the smart contract — they cannot be bypassed by the user once the contract is deployed.

Use cases

• Align token recipients with long-term protocol success

• Reduce immediate sell pressure after TGE

• Reward committed community members with a higher effective allocation