RestakingIncentivesOverview

How Rewards Work

Restaking incentives on Tangle are split into:

  1. TNT incentives (pre-funded) for delegating supported assets.
  2. Service fee revenue paid by customers (in the service’s payment token).

TNT Incentives (InflationPool → RewardVaults)

If enabled by governance, the protocol funds an InflationPool with TNT and distributes it in epochs:

  • The staking portion of each epoch funds RewardVaults.
  • RewardVaults maintains one vault per asset and pays TNT rewards based on vault configuration (APY and caps).
  • Rewards are paid from TNT already held by the contracts (no minting).

Service Fee Revenue (ServiceFeeDistributor)

When customers pay for a blueprint service, the protocol splits fees and sends the restaker portion per operator to ServiceFeeDistributor, which then distributes fees to delegators based on:

  • Delegated amount and optional lock multiplier
  • Blueprint selection (All vs Fixed)
  • Optional per-asset commitments and USD normalization (if a price oracle is configured)

Claiming

  • TNT incentive rewards for delegations are claimed from RewardVaults (or via the protocol UI).
  • Exposure-based TNT rewards (if enabled) are claimed from InflationPool as claimRestakerRewards().
  • Service-fee rewards are claimed from ServiceFeeDistributor (or via the protocol UI).
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