Economics & Incentives
The Valdora Liquid Staking Protocol is designed to align incentives between users, validators, governance participants, and the protocol treasury. This section outlines how rewards are generated, distributed, and used to sustain the protocol's long-term health.
The stZIG APR is dynamic and depends on:
- Validator performance
- Total staked supply
- ZIGChain inflation and distribution schedule
- Validator commission
- Fee structure
Protocol Fee
Valdora employs a transparent fee model designed to support protocol development and treasury growth while maintaining competitive staking yields.
- 10% performance fee is applied to staking rewards (not user principal).
- Collected fees are directed to:
- Protocol treasury (for audits, grants, and future development)
There are no fees on deposit, redemption, or holding stZIG. This ensures frictionless staking and liquidity participation.
Protocol Treasury
The protocol treasury accumulates revenue from performance fees and serves as a reserve to fund long-term development and sustainability.
Liquidity Mining
The architecture of stZIG as a tradable token enables liquidity mining programs across the ZIGChain ecosystem.
Active and Planned Mechanics:
- Reward users for providing stZIG-ZIG or stZIG-stablecoin liquidity on DEXs.
- Distribute governance tokens to LPs to bootstrap liquidity.
- Incentivize stZIG holders to participate in Valdora Vaults — now live — and other lending protocols.
Vaults
Valdora Vaults are live and open for USDC deposits. Each vault connects a curated real-world or quantitative yield strategy with DeFi composability. See the Vaults section for full details on available vaults and their affiliated partners.