Introducing ANTS Staking
The AI economy should reward the people who use it and the people who power it.
With ANTS staking, you can back providers on Antseed and earn rewards tied to the paid AI usage they serve. If you already earn ANTS by using or providing AI, staking gives you another way to put those rewards to work.
The new dashboard makes it easy to explore providers, choose where to stake, and manage your positions.
Ways to earn
Buyers can earn ANTS rewards by using AI on Antseed through eligible paid usage.
Providers earn revenue from selling AI access and can also earn ANTS rewards on qualifying activity. They can stake into their own pools, while other participants can back them with stakes of their own.
Stakers earn ANTS rewards by locking tokens in a provider's pool. You don't need to use that provider yourself to participate.
You can take part in more than one way: use AI, provide it, and stake ANTS to earn additional rewards.
Choosing who to back
You might start with a provider you already use, one offering models you need, or one with a strong reputation.
Your choice of provider matters. Its qualifying usage helps determine the pool's staking rewards, while your staking power determines your share. That power depends on how much you stake and how long you lock it.
Other participants' stakes matter too, because you share the pool's rewards with them. A provider's activity and the amount of power already in its pool are both useful things to consider.
The dashboard lets you compare providers using settled volume, activity over time, active stake, and historical rewards. You can open a provider's profile to explore its requests, buyers, and models served where data is available.
Rewards vary with activity, staking participation, and the available reward budget. The dashboard's APY estimates use historical activity and aren't fixed returns.
Your staking position
Choose a provider, an amount, and a lock period. Your staking power activates in the following epoch, and your position is represented by an lANTS NFT.
You can split positions or merge those with the same provider pool and unlock date without penalties. You can also move your stake to another provider, effective from the next epoch, while keeping your remaining lock.
The dashboard lets you track your positions, provider pools, unlock dates, and rewards. You can stake eligible unclaimed rewards directly; staking ANTS already in your wallet requires transfers to be enabled for that wallet.
Withdrawing before your lock expires can burn part of your staked ANTS. After expiry, there's no early-exit penalty.
Get started
Run antseed ants to open the dashboard in your browser.
Explore the providers, review your available rewards, and choose where to stake. Whether you're a buyer, a provider, or a staker, you can help build the network and participate in its rewards.