Legacy Emissions and Claims

This reference covers pre-migration rewards, before the epoch-22 protocol start on September 10, 2026 at 09:54:21 UTC. For staking positions and rewards from that start date, see Recognized Usage and ANTS Rewards.

Migration does not erase historical points or claims. Legacy V2 continues to serve those claims after the recognized-usage accounting endpoint takes over.

Legacy allocation

The pre-migration configuration is:

Recipient	Share of epoch emissions
Sellers	65%
Buyers	5%
Protocol reserve	15%
Team	15%

These values were checked on legacy V2 at Base block 50,956,120 on September 6, 2026. The old 50% seller / 20% buyer description is not the pre-migration configuration. Parameters are snapshotted per epoch, so older epochs must use their recorded values, not today's percentages.

Rewards are proportional to a participant's points within each finalized epoch. The per-recipient caps are 50% of the seller bucket per seller and 5% of the buyer bucket per buyer; those are caps within a bucket, not its share of total emissions. Cap overages accumulate for the protocol reserve.

Epochs last one week. Legacy V2 inherits the emission clock and schedule from V1, with a 104-epoch halving interval on Base mainnet.

Claiming historical rewards

Sellers call claimSellerEmissions(epochs[]) on legacy V2 for finalized epochs. If the seller-unlock policy permits a direct claim, the seller receives ANTS; otherwise rewards go to the legacy locked-rewards pool.

For buyers, the deposits operator calls claimBuyerEmissions(buyer, epochs[]). The payout goes to that operator. V2 also reads V1's historical points and claim state for the V1-to-V2 migration epochs, so the later M001 migration does not require moving or re-creating those points.

Use the legacy contract addresses below for these claims. The recognized-usage accounting contract is not a replacement claim endpoint for old V2 epochs.

Locked seller rewards: M002

The M002 migration releases 10% of each eligible seller's cumulative locked legacy ANTS, less anything already released. This is 10% of the seller's locked rewards, not a 10 / 65 adjustment to the legacy seller bucket. For example, 1,000 ANTS cumulatively locked permits 100 ANTS in total releases; repeating a claim does not release another 10%. The remainder stays locked.

Sellers proven as wash traders by the configured wash-trading registry, or flagged manually by the claim-policy owner, receive zero from this policy. This restriction is separate from starter-position initialization, which is not blocked by historical wash flags.

M002 is a separate deployment after M001 activation. It installs the legacy seller claim policy and enables the locked-rewards pool to transfer ANTS before global token transfers are enabled. The September 10 protocol start does not automatically unlock these rewards. Claims through the pool become available only after M002 is installed; its default is an immediate 10% entitlement, with release and vesting parameters verified at deployment.

Escrow and flushes

Since M001 phase 1, V2's registry points to AntseedLegacyEmissionsEscrow. Its existing mint() calls now transfer pre-minted ANTS from the escrow; they do not create additional token supply.

The V2 owner can call:

• flushReserve() to pay accumulated reserve ANTS to the main registry's protocolReserve() address.
• flushTeam() to pay accumulated team ANTS to the main registry's teamWallet() address.

Each flush drains its current nonzero accumulator. These are not one-time operations: later legacy claims can account additional amounts to flush. The new emissions-reserve wallet does not replace the legacy reserve-flush destination. Do not sweep the escrow while legitimate legacy claims remain.

Legacy USDC staking

Before migration, sellers register their ERC-8004 identity and stake at least 10 USDC through AntseedStaking. The legacy CLI calls are:

antseed seller stake 10
antseed seller unstake

These are not ANTS pool-position commands. Following migration, legacy stake can continue satisfying seller eligibility while the fallback is enabled, but new usage rewards require seller-pool power. The new seller registry does not support the old USDC stake/unstake methods; consult the migration runbook before attempting legacy withdrawals after the registry switch.

Legacy contract addresses

Contract	Base mainnet address
AntseedStaking	0x3652E6B22919bd322A25723B94BB207602E5c8e6
AntseedEmissionsV2	0xF13bE52c4A3afC6AE29536f073588d01A0564088
AntseedEmissions V1	0x36877fBa8Fa333aa46a1c57b66D132E4995C86b5
AntseedSellerRewardsPool	0xA065C0dE80dbd3d824F7b584E231b76b9fefB261
AntseedLegacyEmissionsEscrow	0x4d0fC3C0BBb5233Af6c4Ce33223e5330c34db9ab

Buyer deposits, Channels, and ANTSToken are shared with the recognized-usage protocol; they are not replaced by migration.