Staking
The airdrop window
From the token generation event to mainnet, roughly a month, staking is how you qualify for the genesis airdrop. Two pools split it: one scales with how much $HOLD you stake and how long you keep it staked, the other with your testnet performance and how many positions you open through the window. One stake keeps you qualified for the whole window, even if you unstake before it ends. Staking is non-custodial with instant unstake, and your principal is never at risk.
Staking on mainnet
When mainnet goes live, staking takes its permanent role. Your $HOLD joins the pool the backstop settles from, so a busier venue pays stakers more, and staked $HOLD sits out of circulation. Staking is how holders turn real platform revenue into yield without becoming the counterparty to any single trade.
Publishing here
The airdrop pool split and reward formulas, and the mainnet reward rate, fee share and lock terms, publish here. This page states the intent; the staking contract sets the exact mechanism.