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What is a staking pool?

A staking pool pays holders rewards from a budget the project funds itself. How the mechanism works, what to check on-chain, and what it costs to run.

309 words · about 1 minute·Article updated 20 August 2026
Definition

A staking pool is a contract where holders deposit a token and earn rewards from a reward budget the project funds itself. Deposits stay the holder's. The reward schedule and the remaining reward balance are on-chain state, so anyone can check what is left to pay.

The rewards come from somewhere specific, and that is the part worth reading. Say a team sets aside part of its treasury as the reward budget and streams it over 90 days: the pool pays out of that balance and nothing else. When the balance runs down, emissions stop. A published rate with no funded balance behind it is arithmetic, not income. Locksley reads the pool contract rather than the announcement, so what renders is the funded balance and the end date.

Where you'll see it on Locksley

A staking panel appears on a token page once a pool exists for that token, alongside vesting, because both are project commitments recorded on-chain rather than stated in a thread. Explore screens all pending tracked tokens.

Where staking sits in the sequence of commitments a project can make is laid out in what locking and vesting prove, and your token's first 48 hours covers when opening a pool is worth the effort. Team Finance is our sister product, so take the disclosure with the price: staking pools are free for a limited time as of August 2026, plus gas in ETH — create a staking pool.

Frequently asked questions

Is a staking pool the same as vesting?

No. A staking pool pays rewards to holders who deposit voluntarily and can usually withdraw again. Vesting releases tokens a project already owns to the project's own wallets on a fixed schedule, with no deposit and no choice involved. One is an incentive aimed at holders, the other is a constraint on insiders. Both are readable on-chain.

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