Astro Incentives
Overview
Liquidity providers (LPs) earn trading fees on every pool. On top of that, a pool can have incentives: extra tokens paid to the LPs who stake their LP tokens in Astroport's Incentives contract.
There are no ASTRO emissions anymore. Emissions to pools are zero, and emissions voting has ended along with the rest of Astroport governance (see Long-Term Support). The Generator contracts that used to distribute emissions are legacy.
Pools can still be incentivized in two ways:
- External incentives. Anyone can add an incentive schedule to any pool on Terra or Neutron, in up to five reward tokens per pool. See Deploying Incentives.
- yASTRO rewards for yASTRO pools (Terra). A pool that holds yASTRO earns yASTRO's weekly USDC.inj rewards like any holder. Anyone can forward those rewards to Incentives, where they are paid to the pool's staked LPs. This needs at least 1% of the pool's LP supply staked in Incentives. See yASTRO in pools.
Earning incentives
Rewards are only paid to LP tokens staked in the Incentives contract:
- Provide liquidity to a pool and receive LP tokens.
- Stake the LP tokens in Incentives. The app can do this in the same transaction when you provide liquidity.
- Claim your rewards from the app's Rewards Center at any time.
LP tokens that aren't staked keep earning trading fees but no incentives. See Staking/Unstaking LP Tokens.