Staking locks your tokens until the campaign is settled. This is deliberate and it is one-way: there is no early exit. Staked tokens cannot be sold back to the curve, and the program will refuse to release them before settlement. Do not stake anything you may need back.
Staked tokens earn a share of the sell fee, a share of whatever the creator chooses to deposit, and a share of protocol revenue when we direct part of it to a campaign, which we may do or stop doing at any time. All of it is distributed by the program in proportion to what is staked at the moment the money arrives. Stake later and you receive nothing from what came in before you.
When the window closes, anyone can settle the campaign: the creator, a participant, a stranger. Whoever signs that transaction earns a 1% bounty on the SOL left in the curve, taken from the creator’s share. A creator who settles their own campaign keeps 95%; one who leaves it to somebody else keeps 94%, because the bounty comes out of the creator’s share and not the protocol’s. The protocol takes 5%, less the affiliation cut described below when the creator was referred. Tokens nobody bought are burned, and the token can never be minted again.
One edge case, because it costs a creator everything when it happens: if a campaign raised so little that the creator’s share would leave their wallet below the minimum balance Solana requires an account to hold, the program cannot pay it, and that share goes to the protocol instead.
We do not settle campaigns for you and we do not undertake to.