Staking RO0T

Deposit RO0T, receive a stream of WHYPE. No minimum, a 24-hour cooldown to leave, nothing to vote on.

What staking means here

Staking is depositing your RO0T into the Ro0tStaking contract so that it counts you as a recipient of fee income. Your tokens stay yours; leaving takes a request and a 24-hour wait (see Unstaking below). While they are deposited, you receive a share of every WHYPE the contract is given, proportional to your share of everything staked.

There is no minimum, no penalty, and no governance; the only friction is the 24-hour unstake cooldown. The contract has no owner and no pause. The only privileged calls are two one-time setup functions used at the RO0T launch.

How to stake

1. 1
   Get RO0T

   Buy it on /ro0t (Trade tab) or on HyperSwap. See How to buy RO0T.

2. 2
   Open the Stake tab

   On /ro0t, choose Stake. You see the totals for the whole contract (staked, received, claimed, parked) and your own balances (staked, earned WHYPE, earned bonus RO0T).

3. 3
   Stake (two confirmations the first time)

   Enter an amount and press Stake. RO0T is a standard ERC-20, so the very first time your wallet asks twice: first to let the staking contract move your RO0T (one time, unlimited, never again), then for the stake itself, which the page sends automatically as soon as the first confirms. From the second stake on it is a single confirmation. A dialog confirms the result.

4. 4
   Stake

   Press Stake and sign. Your RO0T moves into the contract and you start earning from the next second.

Where the rewards come from and how they arrive

1. Every init trade pays fees into the FeeSplitter. The staker share (40% of the gateway fee, 35% of HYPE-side pool fees, 60% of guard surcharges, 100% of forfeited escrows) accumulates in a bucket called stakerPending.
2. Anyone calls flushStaking(): the operator console at /ops has a button for it, and any wallet can call it from an explorer. It hands the bucket to Ro0tStaking.notifyRewardAmount. Only a FeeSplitter registered in the ro0t registry may call that function, and a flush must be at least 0.05 WHYPE unless an hour has passed since the last one, so nobody can spam tiny notifications.
3. The staking contract does not pay the amount out at once. It streams it evenly over the next 7 days. Each second, the amount released is divided among stakers in proportion to their stake.
4. When a new flush arrives mid-stream, the undistributed remainder of the old stream and the new amount are added together and streamed over a fresh 7 days. Nothing is lost; the payout is just spread a little further. Leftover wei from integer division is carried into the next stream.
5. The RO0T/WHYPE pool's own fees follow the same path: Ro0tLocker.collect() sends the WHYPE side to staking and burns the RO0T side.

pendingPot: when nobody is staked

If the contract receives WHYPE while total staked is zero (for example before the RO0T launch, or if everyone unstakes), it cannot stream to anyone. It parks the amount in pendingPot and stops the clock. The next stake, whoever makes it, starts a 7 day stream of the entire pot. If everyone unstakes in the middle of a stream, the undistributed remainder goes back into the pot the same way. The Stake tab shows the pot as "parked".

Claiming

Press Claim on the Stake tab. One transaction pays out two things: your earned WHYPE and, during the first year, your earned bootstrap RO0T bonus. Both land in the wallet that staked. WHYPE is the wrapped ERC-20 form of HYPE; unwrap it whenever you like.

Rewards do not expire and do not need to be claimed before unstaking. Unclaimed rewards keep sitting in your balance; claiming later pays the same amount.

Unstaking: a 24-hour cooldown

Unstaking takes two steps, the same way HyperSwap's $SWAP staking works.

1. 1
   Request

   Enter an amount and press Request unstake. From that moment the amount stops earning rewards and a 24-hour timer starts. Your other staked RO0T keeps earning as before.

2. 2
   Wait 24 hours

   The Stake tab shows the pending amount and the exact time it becomes ready. You can still stake more in the meantime; that does not touch the timer. If you request again, the new amount is added to the pending amount and the timer restarts from that moment for the whole pending amount.

3. 3
   Withdraw

   After the timer, press Withdraw. The RO0T is transferred back to your wallet. Changed your mind? Press Cancel at any point and the pending amount goes straight back to earning, no transfer, no fee.

Why a cooldown at all? Not for security: rewards stream evenly over 7 days, so there is no moment worth jumping in and out for. It is there so that staked supply is genuinely out of the market for at least a day, which makes the staking number on the RO0T page mean something and slows a rush for the exit.

The bootstrap bonus stream

For the first 12 months after the RO0T launch, stakers also receive RO0T from the bootstrap allocation. It is released by the rule emitted = min(100M, k × WHYPE streamed to stakers since TGE), so it grows only when fee income grows, and it is streamed over 7 days exactly like WHYPE, with its own parked pot when nobody is staked. The Stake tab shows "bonus" balances separately. Details and the k rule are on RO0T token.

Numbers on the Stake tab and what they mean

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