# Staking

## Get your Paycheck in ETH for Staking Legacy

Below section explains how Staking system works inside of Legacy Protocol. 

**You are rewarded in ETH whenever a "payday cycle" is triggered. The amount of the reward (paycheck) is based on the % you own in relation to the total share pool.** 

When you stake your Legacy, you receive **shares** based on the current Share Rate. 

This share rate goes up every day. It's a difficulty mechanism to reward early adopters who decide to stake their Legacy. More about the share rate increase can be found in the [Daily Difficulty Clock. ](https://legacy-10.gitbook.io/legacy/daily-difficulty-clock)

### <mark style="color:purple;">**Staking Parameters**</mark>

Minimum stake length is **28** days.

Maximum stake length is **3500** days. \
Staking bonuses cap at day 2888, see **"Shares"** section below.

#### **The rolling payday cycles run:** <a href="#the-rolling-payout-cycles-run" id="the-rolling-payout-cycles-run"></a>

* **Every 28 Days**
  * so day 28, 56, 84, etc..., forever.
* **Every 90 Days**
  * so day 90, 180, 270, etc..., forever.
* **Every 369 Days**
  * so day 369, 738, 1107, etc..., forever.
* **Every 888 Days**
  * so day 888, 1776, 2664, etc..., forever.

**To each payday cycle a different amount of ETH is distributed. Those distributions look like this:**&#x20;

* 24% gets added to the 28-day payday
* 34% gets added to the 90-day payday
* 30% gets added to the 369-day payday
* 12% gets added to the 888-day payday

The reasoning behind those numbers is to reward long-term staking. Those who decide to stake their Legacy tokens will receive a portion of the **65% of total ETH** flowing into the Legacy protocol from builders.&#x20;

It can happen that sometimes, 2 paydays can get triggered on the same day.

### <mark style="color:purple;">Shares</mark> <a href="#shares" id="shares"></a>

When you stake your Legacy, you get shares in return; the number of shares you get depends on the current share rate at the time of your stake + the bonuses below:

**Longer Pays Better** Bonus - the longer you stake for, the more shares you get, up to a +350% bonus at day 2888, after 2888 day stake length, the bonus stays capped at +350% but you can stake up to 3500 days to earn as much yield as possible for as long as possible as shares only get more expensive & much harder to get over time.

**Bigger Pays Better Bonus** - the more Legacy you stake in a single stake, the more bonus you get. You can get up to 8% extra bonus on your shares, capped at 640,000 Legacy. This is linear so for 80.000 Legacy you get 1%. If you want to get those bonuses early on it is worth to explore the [Hire Builders Squad](https://legacy-10.gitbook.io/legacy/builders-phase#ways-to-hire-builder) functionality where you can hire up to 100 Builders in one transaction.

The number of shares you have compared to everyone else determines your % of the ETH paychecks.

For example: if you have 1% of all shares, you get 1% of all the payday cycles triggered during your staking period. That is why it makes sense to top-up your Legacy stake to maximise the total size of ETH paychecks.&#x20;

### <mark style="color:purple;">Penalties</mark> <a href="#penalties" id="penalties"></a>

When setting up your stake length, try to pay attention to the end day for your stake. Put that date in your calendar not to forget.&#x20;

If for some reason you're unable to end on that day, you will have a 7-day grace period to end your stake in which no penalties will get applied.

Stakes are not allowed to be ended before 50% maturity.

If stake ended after 50% maturity:

* Lose -50% of Legacy in staked, gets sent to the dead address (burned).
* You get 50% of Legacy staked back.

If stake did not end for 1 week (grace period) after end date (stake maturity), lose 1% of Legacy per day until 99% is lost after 100 days. (calculated when end stake function is triggered).&#x20;

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