Staking & Rewards

What staking does

Staking commits $SBX to purpose-built pools that provide real financial services across the SUPERBLOCK ecosystem — liquidity, settlement capacity, market depth. It is one of the core utility functions of the token, alongside fees, access, and governance, and it aligns holders with the long-term health of the network: the capital that keeps tokenised markets liquid comes from the community that governs them.

Pools with real mandates, not emissions

$SBX staking is being designed around functional pools rather than an inflationary rewards faucet. Each pool has a specific mandate — a financial job it performs inside the ecosystem — and the distributions stakers receive are generated by that pool's actual activity: the fees and spreads it earns doing its job. Every pool operates with a capped size and per-address limits, with positions and pool accounting recorded transparently on-chain.

Example: instant liquidity for real estate

Tokenised real estate trades on a marketplace, but a holder who needs to exit today may not want to wait for a buyer. The Instant Liquidity Pool solves this: it buys the asset tokens from the holder immediately at a transparent discount to reference value, then resells them on the secondary market in its own time. The realised spread flows back to the pool, and is distributed to the $SBX stakers whose capital made the instant exit possible. The seller gets liquidity on demand; stakers share in what the pool earns providing it.

More pool mandates in design

The same pattern — stake into a pool, the pool performs a service, the pool's earnings are shared with its stakers — extends across the ecosystem:

• Settlement liquidity (SBX AURA) — bridges the timing gap between the two legs of a delivery-versus-payment settlement so transactions complete atomically, earning settlement fees.
• Secondary-market depth — quotes continuous two-sided prices on tokenised asset order books so investors can always trade, earning spreads and maker fees.
• Issuance backstop (SBX Prime) — commits capital to absorb unsold allocations in primary issuances so issuers can launch with certainty, earning underwriting fees.
• Compute capacity (SBX GRID) — backs decentralised compute and clean-energy capacity as it comes online, earning a share of usage fees.

Flexible unbonding, not lock-ups

Staked $SBX is not locked indefinitely. Unstaking uses an unbonding mechanism: initiating a withdrawal starts a cooldown period, followed by a claim window in which tokens can be withdrawn — and stake continues to earn through the cooldown. If tokens are not claimed during the window, they simply re-enter the pool. The cooldown protects the stability of pools whose capital is deployed in live positions, while giving stakers a predictable path out.

Rewards that favour long-term stakers

Distributions are designed to vest over a ramp-up period: a new staker's share of pool earnings starts partial and grows to full over time. Unstaking early forfeits the unvested portion, which is redistributed to the remaining stakers in that pool — so patient capital, which pools rely on, earns the full share. Staking is not yet operational: concrete parameters and rates will be published only when pools go live, and we do not promise yields or returns.

A capped, phased rollout

Pools will launch with conservative size caps and open in phases — early access for existing $SBX holders, then general access — expanding as each pool's mandate proves out. The staking contracts are modular, so new pools can be added over time without requiring stakers to migrate.

Getting started

Staking will be managed via sbxtoken.com, where the available pools and current parameters will be shown when live.