How liSLVR works

Yes. SLVR sitting in a wallet earns nothing. To receive protocol revenue it has to be locked in the vote escrow, which mints a veNFT representing the position. That NFT is staked automatically, and staked positions accrue ETH.

Your share is decided by weight, which is the locked amount multiplied by a lock multiplier. A permanent lock sits at the 4x ceiling; time locks run up to four months at up to 2.5x. Revenue is then split across every staked position in proportion to weight.

The protocol collects fees — mining-round fees and trading taxes — and pushes them to the staking contract, which divides them across all staked weight. It is paid in native ETH, not a wrapped token. Nothing about it is minted or subsidised: it is revenue that already happened.

Yield is therefore variable. It depends on protocol activity and on how much total weight you are splitting it with. Past yield is an observation, not a forecast.

Anyone can trigger a harvest. What it claims is split two ways:

• Income — accrues to you per share of liSLVR held, claimable whenever you like. It keeps accruing whether or not you claim, and it follows the tokens correctly — send liSLVR away and the ETH you already earned stays yours.
• Growth — buys more SLVR (or mines it, when that is cheaper) and adds it to the same permanent lock. Every liSLVR is then backed by more SLVR than before.

Income is spendable ETH. Rising backing is not — it means each liSLVR is a claim on more SLVR, which you realise by selling the token. Both are returns; conflating them is how people end up surprised.

The compounding half of revenue can buy SLVR on the market or mine for it. Mining is a lottery: a run of rounds can come up completely empty, and the expected value only shows up over enough rounds for that variance to average out.

So the vault will not mine unless it can fund a full campaign — twelve rounds by default — at a stake large enough that gas is not a meaningful share of it. Both limits are checked on-chain, priced off the live gas price, and enforced by the contract rather than decided by the bot. Below them, the ETH buys instead.

This is one of the clearer arguments for pooling. A few thousandths of an ETH cannot fund a campaign alone; the same money pooled with everyone else's can. Losses cost ETH, never locked SLVR, so backing per liSLVR does not fall when a round loses — the compounding just slows.

You can opt in to having your claimed ETH bought back into SLVR and returned as more staked liSLVR, instead of collecting it by hand. It is off by default, you set the flag yourself, and turning it off takes effect immediately — the contract reads it at the moment of the claim, not when the keeper builds its list.

Runs are batched: everyone opted in is pooled into a single swap rather than one swap each. That is cheaper per person and gets a better price, since one larger trade eats less slippage than many dust trades.

The keeper that runs it chooses when, and the slippage floor the swap must beat. It cannot enrol you, it cannot reach your staked principal, and it cannot send the proceeds anywhere but your own position — the contract stakes them to the address that contributed the ETH. Its power is timing, not custody.

This is the most important thing on the page. Deposited SLVR is locked permanently — it is burned into the lock and the position is soulbound, so it can never be transferred, sold, or unwound. Not by you, and not by the protocol.

What you hold instead is liSLVR, which is transferable. Exiting means selling it on the secondary market, at whatever price that market offers — which can be below backing. If there is no liquidity, there is no exit.

• Yield falls — Protocol revenue is not guaranteed, and total staked weight can rise. Both reduce what the vault earns.
• liSLVR trades below backing — A liquid claim on an illiquid asset can trade at a discount. Backing is a floor on value only if someone will pay it.
• Mining loses — When the growth half mines instead of buying, rounds can lose. Losses cost ETH, never locked SLVR, so backing per share does not fall — but the compounding does slow.
• Smart contract risk — The vault is immutable and unaudited today. It holds a position that can never be moved.
• Auto-compound buys at the keeper's timing — If you opt in, you are handing over the choice of when your ETH is spent and at what floor. A bad market moment is a worse fill than you might have picked. Claiming by hand keeps that choice; it is why the feature is opt-in rather than default.