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# Staking

Staking was created to incentivize holding of tokens during the development of the protocol. From the day staking started (December 12th) until the day the protocol launches, each user will gain staking points just by holding tokens in their wallet.

During the first 3 months after launch of the protocol the revenue that would be used to buyback $GOAT tokens will instead go toward rewarding stakers. The share of points you have out of the total amount everyone has correlates to the share of revenue you'll receive after that period.

Once the 3 months is over, there will be an airdrop of your owed portion of the revenue given in Ether. Staking will no longer be part of the protocol after launch of the protocol.