How It Works
Whalehub connects users, smart contracts, liquidity pools, and a backend automation server into a single yield-generating system.
Status (2026-09): staker rewards are active and paid in AQUA. Whalehub votes its pooled ICE on the highest-yielding Aquarius market and routes the voting revenue to stakers as AQUA — see Reward Distribution. v2 bought BLUB on the open market to pay stakers; v3 does not, because the revenue already arrives as AQUA. The legacy POL pool-emissions leg (BLUB-AQUA) is paused pending Aquarius re-whitelisting and resumes automatically if approved — but it is no longer required for rewards.
System Overview
The Yield Cycle
User locks AQUA — 90% stays in the contract (queued for ICE governance locking), 10% goes to the admin wallet for liquidity pool deposits
BLUB is minted — 1.0 BLUB per AQUA locked goes to the user's staking balance, 0.1 BLUB goes to the admin for pool liquidity
Liquidity earns rewards — AQUA and BLUB deposited into Aquarius AMM pools earn trading fees and AQUA farming rewards
Rewards are distributed — Every 6 hours the backend splits the voting revenue; the staker half is passed through as AQUA and distributed pro-rata. Nothing is swapped and nothing is minted
User claims AQUA — Stakers can claim their accumulated AQUA rewards (7-day cooldown between claims). Prefer BLUB? Elect it once and the contract swaps for you at claim time
Two Ways to Earn
Staking
Lock AQUA for a chosen duration. Earn AQUA rewards from voting revenue distributed proportionally to all stakers. Longer locks = higher reward multiplier.
Liquidity Vaults
Deposit token pairs into auto-compounding AMM pools. The backend automatically claims rewards and re-deposits them for you — 4 times a day for BLUB-AQUA, 6 times a day for the other pools — growing your LP position through compound interest.
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