How to stake on Acre

What Acre does

When you stake on Acre you lock up a token's liquidity (its “LP”) and earn a share of that token's creator fees, paid to you in SOL. Claim or reinvest anytime, and unstake whenever you want.

Before you start

You’ll need three things:

Stake in 4 steps

1. 1
   Connect your wallet

   Click Connect wallet (top right) and approve the connection in your wallet.
2. 2
   Pick a farm

   Open the Farms tab. Each farm is one token you can earn fees from. The card shows its estimated APR, TVL, recent 24h fees, and your stake. Choose one and click Stake.
3. 3
   Stake your LP

   You’ll see two options:

   • Stake LP — if you already hold the farm’s LP token. Enter an amount (or tap Max) and confirm.
   • Add LP & stake — if you don’t have LP yet. Deposit SOL + the token; Acre creates the LP and stakes it for you, in one flow.

   Approve the transaction in your wallet — you’re staked.
4. 4
   Check your position

   Open the Positions tab to see your active stake and your pending rewards building up in SOL.

Earning, claiming & compounding

• You earn automatically. As the token generates creator fees, your share accrues as SOL — no action needed to keep earning.
• Claim sends your pending SOL rewards to your wallet.
• Compound reinvests for you: it claims the SOL, turns it into more LP, and stakes it — growing your position so it earns even more.

Both Claim and Compound are one click in the Positions tab, and both need a quick wallet approval. Use Compound to keep building; use Claim when you want the SOL in hand.

Unstaking

You can unstake anytime (unless a farm has an optional lock period, which is always shown upfront). On the farm or position, click Unstake, enter how much, and approve. Your LP returns to your wallet. Claim any remaining rewards first if you haven’t.

A few things to know

How rewards are funded

Every reward you earn traces back to one source: the token’s creator fees. When people trade a token, its creator earns a fee on that volume. On Acre, the creator chooses to route a percentage of those fees to the people who stake the token’s liquidity — that’s you.

The flow, end to end:

1. Traders buy and sell the token; creator fees accrue to a wallet the creator controls.
2. On a set cadence, that wallet’s fees are split by the creator’s configured percentages — a share to the team, a share back into liquidity, and a share into the farm’s emission vault.
3. The emission vault streams that SOL to stakers over time, proportional to how much LP each person has staked. Your pending rewards tick up as it streams.

Because rewards come from real trading activity, your APR rises when volume is high and falls when it’s quiet. The creator’s reward percentage sets the ceiling: a higher share of fees routed to stakers means a higher APR for the same volume.

Anyone can boost a farm’s rewards

Rewards aren’t only funded by the token’s creator. Any wallet can add SOL to a farm’s emissions to reward stakers — a project, a community member, a partner. Each contribution is independent and additive: it tops up what stakers earn without touching existing rewards or anyone’s stake. The creator’s fee-sharing is the automated baseline — a share of creator fees flows in continuously — and on top of that, anyone can fund extra rewards anytime, fully on-chain.

Want to boost a farm? Use Fund rewards on the farm to add SOL to its emissions.

For creators

If you launched a token, the Creator tab is where you turn its fees into staking rewards. Three things to set up:

1. Initialize a farm for your token. This creates the on-chain farm and emission vault that stakers deposit into. You only do this once per token.
2. Choose the fee split. Decide what percentage of creator fees goes to your team, back into liquidity, and to the farm (stakers). The farm share is what drives staker APR — a bigger slice attracts more liquidity.
3. Fund emissions. Top up the emission vault (manually, or automatically from the fee-routing cycle) so there’s SOL to stream to stakers.

The split is shown to stakers, so being generous and transparent is the way to grow a deep, sticky liquidity base.

Compounding math — a worked example

Say you’ve staked LP worth $1,000 in a farm earning a steady 50% APR. That’s about $500 of SOL rewards over a year, or roughly $1.37 a day.

Claiming takes that SOL to your wallet as it accrues. After a year you’ve pocketed ~$500, and your staked position is still worth its original $1,000 of LP (price aside).

Compounding instead reinvests each reward back into more LP. Your staked balance grows, so the next reward is calculated on a slightly larger position — earnings build on earnings. At 50% APR compounded continuously, that same $1,000 becomes about $1,649 of LP after a year instead of $1,500 — roughly $149 extra, purely from reinvesting.

Rule of thumb: compound while you’re building and don’t need the SOL; claim when you want rewards in hand. Each compound costs a small network fee, so for tiny positions it’s fine to let rewards build and compound less often.

Lock periods & multipliers

Most Acre farms are fully flexible — stake and unstake whenever you like. Some farms may offer an optional lock: agree to leave your LP staked for a set period and earn a reward multiplier in return (for example, a 7-day lock at 1.25×, or 30 days at 1.5×).

A lock is always shown before you stake and is never applied without your approval. If a farm has no lock, none of this applies — your stake is liquid the entire time. Higher multipliers reward longer commitment because they make a farm’s liquidity more stable, which benefits everyone staking it.

Glossary

LP token (liquidity)

A token that represents your share of a trading pool. Staking LP is how you earn on Acre.

Staking

Locking your LP into a farm so it earns rewards. You can take it back out anytime.

Creator fees

The fees a token’s creator earns from trading. On Acre the creator routes a share of these to stakers — that’s where your rewards come from.

APR

Annual percentage rate — roughly what you’d earn in a year at the current pace.

Claim / Compound

Take your rewards as SOL (claim) or reinvest them to earn more (compound).

FAQ

Troubleshooting

• Transaction stuck or failed — the network was busy or fees were too low. Wait a moment and try again; make sure you have a little spare SOL.
• Not enough SOL for fees — every action needs a small amount of SOL for the network. Top up and keep ~0.05 SOL spare.
• Wallet won’t connect — refresh the page, unlock your wallet extension, and make sure it’s set to the right network. Try disconnecting and reconnecting.
• Rewards read zero — rewards accrue from trading activity, so a brand-new or quiet farm may show little at first. Give it time, and confirm you’re actually staked in the Positions tab.
• Wrong network — if balances or farms look empty, check your wallet is on the same Solana cluster as the app (devnet vs mainnet).

Safety & self-custody

Acre is non-custodial. Your funds stay in your wallet and your staked LP stays under your control — every move (stake, unstake, claim, compound) requires a signature you approve. Acre never holds your keys and can’t move your funds on its own.

Before staking into any farm, it’s worth checking:

• The token and farm are the ones you intend — verify the mint address if unsure.
• The advertised reward split and any lock period are acceptable to you.
• You understand that LP value moves with the token’s price (normal market risk).
• You’re on the correct network and connected with the wallet you mean to use.

Self-custody means you’re in control — and also responsible for double-checking what you sign.