Reward Pool
The reward pool is the inventory a token sets aside to pay its stakers — how it is funded, and how to tell whether a promised rate is actually backed.
Chapter Overview
Staking a token on UNIT pays a return, and that return is not conjured from nowhere. The token owner commits part of the supply to a reward pool, and stakers draw from it daily.
The part that catches people out
Rewards are claimed, not received, and each has a seven-day window. Nothing arrives in your wallet on its own. Miss the window on a given day's reward and that entry lapses.
Since rewards land daily and the window is seven days, a weekly visit clears everything. That is the whole discipline.
Two sides of one system
Collecting rewards is covered in Earn, where the claim screen lives. This chapter is the other end: if you run a token — or are deciding whether to stake into one — The Reward Pool shows where the money comes from, and whether the promised rate is actually funded.
Screens in This Chapter
| Screen | What you use it for |
|---|---|
| The Reward Pool | See how much inventory stands behind a token's staking rewards, and the terms it pays on |
| Fund the Reward Pool | Add tokens to the pool, and read every past funding of it |
Common Workflows
Judge whether a rate is credible
Read the APR, then open the reward pool and see what is actually in it. A high rate paid from a thin pool will not last.
Keep your own token's rewards funded
From your economy's tokenomics tab, check what remains available for staking rewards, then top it up before it runs down. The funding history there shows how fast previous top-ups were consumed.
Related Features
- Earn
- Staking itself — what generates the rewards in the first place.
- Tokenomics & Reserves
- Where the reward pool sits among everything else an owner allocates supply to.
- Treasury
- The other reserve behind a token, holding different things for a different reason.
- Network Rewards
- A separate reward system, earned from connections rather than staking.