Staking & holding

Season 0 uses wallet holdings, not staking. Each Season 0 reward tier requires a minimum ALPUN balance (5,000 / 25,000 / 100,000 / 500,000) held in your linked wallet while productive time accrues — the backend indexer samples balances continuously; no staking transaction is needed.

Staking launches with Season 1, converting held balances into locked positions with the benefits below. Wallets that held a Season 0 threshold through the end of the season receive a Founders Boost when they stake in early Season 1. Holding or staking yields gameplay benefits, never token interest.

Three concepts stay separated:

On-chain staking amount
        ↓
Daily Alpaca Energy allowance
        ↓
Game participation and seasonal points

Lock tiers

Area	Lock period	Benefit
Alpaca Meadow	None	Basic energy bonus
Golden Farm	30 days	1.10× multiplier, rare items
Cosmic Ranch	90 days	1.25× multiplier, exclusive alpaca, governance access

Energy formula

The backend — never the frontend — computes the daily allowance:

Base daily energy:          100
Every 10,000 ALPUN staked:   +10
Maximum staking bonus:      +200
30-day lock multiplier:     1.10×
90-day lock multiplier:     1.25×

dailyEnergy = min(baseEnergy + stakingBonus, maximumDailyEnergy) × lockMultiplier

The blockchain indexer keeps a MongoDB projection of every on-chain staking position (staking_positions collection). The game service derives benefits from that projection; it never reads wallet state supplied by the browser.

Reward model

Player stakes tokens
→ receives additional energy
→ performs farm actions
→ earns seasonal points
→ seasonal points determine allocation
→ fixed seasonal token pool is claimable

Season 0 emits no ALPUN at all — rewards are the Founders Farm NFTs only. The game only ever takes ALPUN off the market (hold thresholds) or burns it (claim fees); there is no game-driven sell pressure in Phase 0. Any future seasonal token pool would be a fixed, pre-announced amount — never a permanent APY with unlimited emission.

Besides energy, the balance requirement gates the Season NFT tiers (Season 0: wallet balance; Season 1+: staked balance):

Hold ≥ tier threshold in the linked wallet
→ productive time accrues toward that tier
→ dip below the threshold: accrual pauses (7-day cooldown to resume)
→ hold the threshold 7 days before claiming
→ claim fee in ALPUN: 50 % burned, 50 % treasury

Rewards are variable, not guaranteed, and may end after any season.

On-chain components

SPL token mint             ALPUN
Staking program            deposits, withdrawals, lock periods
Reward vault PDA           holds any future seasonal pool
Player staking accounts    one PDA per staked position

The transaction-building endpoints (POST /api/v1/staking/transactions/*) return unsigned or partially prepared transactions for the wallet to inspect and sign. The backend must not sign as the player.

Synchronization

Solana account/program change
→ indexer decodes staking event
→ blockchain_events insert (idempotent: signature + instruction index)
→ staking_positions projection update
→ staking.updated outbox event
→ game benefits recalculated