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Strip does not use lockups to force alignment. Lockups trap capital: they make commitment visible, but they make exit artificial. Strip uses a different signal. Alignment is measured by sustained participation. Every participant starts at a 1x boost. As alignment continues, the multiplier increases, reaching the maximum of 20x after 60 days of sustained alignment. Capital can always leave, but when alignment breaks, the boost resets to 1x. The system does not punish exit by locking capital. It rewards continuity by making time valuable.

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What the clock measures

Your alignment clock tracks one thing: your sustained STRIP exposure. Three forms of exposure count, all attributed to your address:
  • STRIP held in your wallet
  • STRIP staked in stSTRIP
  • The STRIP inside your staked sWLP positions, summed across every vault’s pool
The clock records the lowest level of exposure you have sustained (your floor) and counts the consecutive days you have held it. Growing your exposure raises what your floor can become; dropping below your sustained floor resets the clock to 1x. Adding to positions never hurts you, and taking profits above your floor never hurts you; only reducing your sustained exposure resets you. Two things deliberately do not count. Staking Principal Tokens earns you STRIP emissions, but the act of staking PT contributes nothing to the multiplier: the clock measures STRIP exposure, not position size. And unclaimed rewards do not count: exposure means holding something you could sell and choosing not to, and a claim that cannot yet be sold involves no such choice. Exposure begins when STRIP is claimed and kept.

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Where the boost applies

There is one alignment clock per user, and the multiplier it produces applies across all of your emission-earning positions: STRIP claims on staked PT and STRIP claims on staked sWLP are both scaled by the same boost. A participant with sustained STRIP exposure competes more efficiently for emissions everywhere they stake.

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What preserves alignment, and what resets it

Assets held by contracts outside the recognized venues do not count. If you deposit STRIP or sWLP into a lending market, bridge, or exchange, that exposure is no longer attributed to your address, and your clock treats it as a reduction. This includes the protocol-seeded STRIP/USDC convenience pool: it exists for routing and visibility, not alignment, and STRIP moved into it reads as a reduction. Integrations may be recognized in the future; until one is explicitly listed, assume it is not.

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How boost is computed and enforced

Boost is computed per daily epoch. After each epoch closes, the boost values for that epoch are published onchain as an immutable Merkle root in the BoostController. When you claim, your boost for each epoch is verified against that epoch’s root and applied to that epoch’s rewards. Three properties follow:
  • Epoch-locked. Rewards earned in an epoch use that epoch’s boost, permanently. Waiting to claim cannot retroactively improve past rewards, and a published root cannot be edited.
  • Fail-safe, not fail-punitive. If boost data is unavailable for an epoch, for any reason, claims still work at the 1x baseline. Missing data can only cost you the boost benefit, never your base rewards.
  • Verifiable. Every published root appears on the transparency dashboard, and the rules used to compute boost are published. You can check that your claimed boost matches the attested data.
Boost values are computed offchain against these published rules and attested onchain; the contracts verify inclusion and cap the multiplier at the maximum. See Trust Assumptions for exactly what this does and does not require you to trust.

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Genesis: time staked, carried forward

During Genesis, no STRIP circulates and unclaimed rewards do not count as exposure, so the clock runs on the one alignment signal that exists before the token does: time staked. Every participant’s multiplier ramps from 1x toward 5x across the 30 days, applied per epoch and epoch-locked like all boost. The level you reach carries forward when claims open. It becomes your starting multiplier, and from there the standard exposure rules take over: keep at least half of your cumulative claimed STRIP aligned (held, staked in stSTRIP, or inside staked sWLP) and your multiplier keeps climbing from where it stands toward 20x. Drop below that and the clock resets to 1x, the same rule as always. Genesis gives early participants a head start; only breaking alignment takes it away.

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The design intent

Users are not rewarded for being unable to exit. They are rewarded for choosing not to. The mechanic is deliberately unforgiving in one direction only: alignment grows over time and resets instantly, because the reset is what makes the accumulated time worth something. The path to maximum boost is clear: stay aligned. The cost of breaking it is equally clear: return to 1x. Lockless Boost turns time into advantage without turning capital into a hostage.