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# Staking Rewards

Rewards are how you turn a token into a community. In Token Factory you can fund a **staking reward** program: people lock up a chosen token, and for as long as they keep it staked they earn a daily prize. It's a simple, powerful way to thank the people who back your project and encourage them to stick around.

## Create a staking reward

When you set up a program, you decide the whole shape of it:

* **The staked token** — what people lock up to take part. It can be **your own token**, or even an **LP token** from a liquidity pool, so you can reward the people providing liquidity for you.
* **The prize token** — what stakers earn. Choose any token you like as the reward.
* **Prize per day** — how much of the prize token is shared out among all stakers each day.
* **Duration** — how many days the program runs.
* **Lock period** *(optional)* — a minimum time stakers must keep their tokens in before they can withdraw. Leave it off for a come-and-go program, or set one to reward longer commitment.
* **Minimum stake** *(optional)* — the smallest amount someone can stake to join.

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**The entire prize is funded upfront, and it's non-refundable.** When you create the program, the full reward pot — **prize per day × duration** — is taken from your wallet and locked in immediately. You can't pull it back out. So before you confirm, be sure of the numbers: a large daily prize over a long duration adds up to a serious commitment. Start with amounts you're completely comfortable giving away.
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## Extend a program

A running program can always be topped up — and not just by you. **Anyone** can extend it, adding more days and funds to keep the rewards flowing. That means your community can rally to keep a popular program alive even after your initial funding runs out.

## Coming soon

Token Factory is growing, and two more ways to reward people are on the way but **not available yet**:

* **Airdrops** — send rewards directly to your holders, or to the people who stake another coin, putting your token in front of a community that's already active.
* **Trading rewards** — reward the people who trade your token in a chosen market.

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**Coming soon.** Airdrops and trading rewards are planned but not yet live in this app. For now, staking rewards are the way to reward your community here — the rest is on the roadmap.
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**For example.** The book club wants to reward loyal readers, so it creates a staking reward: stake **$PAGE**, earn a daily share of a $PAGE prize pot over 90 days, with a short lock period to encourage members to stay. The club funds all 90 days upfront. Later, when it's proving popular, a couple of members chip in to extend it another month.
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The bigger picture of what token creators can build — including the rewards still to come — lives here:

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[Create Your Own Token](/overview/features/creating-tokens.md)
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