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Utility

Overview​

ASTRO's main utility today is staking it as yASTRO on Terra to earn a share of protocol fees. ASTRO no longer has a governance role.

yASTRO: fee share​

  • Stake ASTRO on Terra and receive yASTRO 1:1 at app.astroport.fi/yastro.
  • Each week 25% of the fees collected by the Terra Maker are deposited into yASTRO in USDC.inj and streamed per second over the following week to yASTRO holders, pro rata to their balance.
  • Claim rewards at any time from the Rewards Center. Unstaking takes 7 days, and unbonding ASTRO earns nothing.
  • yASTRO is transferable. Pools that hold yASTRO earn rewards too, and these can be forwarded to the pool's staked LPs.

Read the full guide in yASTRO.

Other uses​

  • Trading and liquidity. ASTRO trades in Astroport pools on Neutron and Terra and can be provided as liquidity like any other token.
  • Incentivization fee. Adding a new reward token to a pool's incentives costs a 1,500 ASTRO fee, paid to the Maker. See Deploying Incentives.

What ASTRO no longer does​

  • Governance is retired. There are no ASTRO, xASTRO or vxASTRO votes, no token holder proposals and no emissions voting. The protocol is run by the Astroport Contributors DAOs (see Long-Term Support).
  • xASTRO is retired. xASTRO used to be the staking token that accrued ASTRO from fees and carried voting power. After the September 2026 Neutron incident it was frozen and retired; it has no value and can't be redeemed. Pre-incident holders were paid in ASTRO at 1.3402 ASTRO per xASTRO.
  • vxASTRO is winding down. Existing vxASTRO positions only unwind through their normal unlock. They no longer vote or direct emissions.