We've been building this ecosystem block by block, and today we're adding something that changes the game for holders: ADBYTES staking is now live on Base. If you've been earning ADBYTES through the ad network, you now have a reason to hold instead of sell, and get paid for doing it.
How It Works Staking ADBYTES is straightforward. You deposit your tokens into the staking contract and receive stADBYTES (Staked ADBYTES) 1:1 as a receipt token. That stADBYTES represents your position in the pool.
From the moment you stake, you start earning a proportional share of the daily token emissions (33,000 / day). The reward rate is set by the protocol and distributed pro-rata across all active stakers - so the more you hold, the more you earn. You have three choices for your rewards:
- Harvest - claim your accumulated ADBYTES rewards directly to your wallet
- Restake (Compound) - roll your rewards back into your staked position to grow faster
- Let them ride - rewards accrue on-chain in real time, nothing to do until you're ready
Unstaking:
The Cooldown System Unstaking uses a two-step process with a cooldown period. When you want to exit:
- Submit an Unstake Request for the amount you want to withdraw
- Your stADBYTES goes into escrow and a cooldown timer starts (24 hours)
- Once the cooldown clears, you have a claim window (48 hours) to Complete Unstake and receive your ADBYTES back
This design is intentional. It discourages drive-by staking and dumping, and protects the reward pool for long-term holders. Tokens in cooldown stop earning rewards, only active stakers are rewarded. If you miss the claim window after cooldown, your stADBYTES returns to your wallet and you can try again.
The stADBYTES Token stADBYTES is a real ERC-20 token. You can add it to your wallet directly from the dapp. It's backed 1:1 by staked ADBYTES, the contract is designed so your principal can never be touched to pay rewards. Rewards only ever come from the separately funded reward treasury.
Where Rewards Come From The staking contract is funded with a daily emission rate. This draws from a reward treasury that's separate from your staked principal. The dapp shows you the current APY, total staked, daily emission, and treasury balance in real time. If the treasury truly runs dry, harvesting pauses - your principal and your accrued but unclaimed balance are always safe.
The staking reward treasury is funded with 75,000,000 ADBYTES from the platform treasury, representing half of the total lifetime allocation to “staking & yield farming” projects. This is enough to fuel daily emissions for years to come. If the rewards ever dry up in the future, we can continue staking rewards via token buy-backs as a form of platform profit sharing with our community. Staking may also come with other benefits such as voting rights and more in the future.
Getting Started
- Head to adbytes.media and open the Staking panel (DAPP)
- Connect your wallet on Base Mainnet
- Enter the amount you want to stake and approve the transaction
- You're in: rewards start accruing immediately
The staking contract is deployed on Base at: 0x6C2075da840c8574B9DFf96f9D1E890Ac37F58bC You can verify it anytime on BaseScan.
More to come, stay tuned.
