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# Vesting

## Vesting your rewards

By staking your tokens, you earn an incredibly sustainable, and high APR on your principal. This realistically comes with a downside - a vast amount of sell pressure from rewards. To mitigate sell pressure from rewards, rewards are claimable and vested over a 90 day period. We believe that it is more beneficial for the project as a whole that rewards are vested, and allows for us at DeFi to manage the cash flow. 

## Vesting period

When users claim rewards, instead of it being distributed directly in their wallet, it is sent to a vesting contract where the user can claim once every 9 days over 90 days. First initial claim can be done instantly with the rest vested afterwards. 

## When can I claim?

You can claim rewards every 9 days over 90 days.