⚠️Claim & Stake Penalties

Projects can tie airdrop distributions to staking behavior β€” 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 β€” percentage deducted when claiming without staking

  • Staking contract β€” the address where tokens must be staked

  • Staking tiers β€” optional time-based tiers with decreasing penalty rates

  • Penalty destination β€” burned, returned to treasury, or redistributed

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Penalties are enforced by the smart contract β€” 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

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