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Deploying Incentives

Astroport's incentives are permissionless: anyone can incentivize any pool on Terra or Neutron, with up to five different reward tokens per pool. There are no ASTRO emissions anymore, so external incentives (and, on Terra, yASTRO rewards for yASTRO pools) are the only incentives pools receive.

Here's how it works:

  1. Select a Pool: Choose the liquidity pool you want to incentivize.
  2. Define Incentives: Select the token(s) you want to incentivize the pool with.
  3. Set Duration: Set the duration of the incentive, from 1 week to 25 weeks. Schedules run in Astroport weeks (Monday 00:00 UTC to Sunday 23:59 UTC): a new schedule starts right away and lasts until the next Monday plus the number of weeks you choose.
  4. Sign and Confirm: Sign and confirm the transaction. Adding a reward token that the pool doesn't already have costs a 1,500 ASTRO incentivization fee, which goes to the Maker. Topping up a token the pool already has, or adding ASTRO as a reward, doesn't.

Continue below for an in-depth guide on deploying incentives.

Step 1: Head over to https://app.astroport.fi/pools and select Incentivize Pool.​

The Incentivize Pool button can be found on the top right of the Pools page.

Step 2: Select a pool to incentivize​

Withdraw-only pools (the six Neutron pools drained in September 2026) can't usefully be incentivized: they don't accept deposits.

Step 3: Define Incentives​

First, we select the token we will be using to incentivize the pool.

Step 4: Set Incentives Amount​

Next, we define the amount of incentives that are being deposited.

Step 5: Define Duration​

Lastly, we define the incentives schedule, or how many weeks your incentives will last. Incentives require a minimum of 1 week and a maximum of 25 weeks.

Note that rewards per second must be at least 1 unit of the reward token.

You can expand the duration tab to see incentives distributed per week for your defined schedule.

Step 6: Sign and Confirm transaction​

Once complete, your incentives schedule should begin! Rewards are paid to LPs who stake their LP tokens in the Incentives contract, pro rata to their stake.