# Announcing Escape Velocity Season 8

**Published by:** [Blackhole](https://paragraph.com/@blackholedex/)
**Published on:** 2026-01-29
**URL:** https://paragraph.com/@blackholedex/announcing-escape-velocity-season-8

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Season 7 has finished and we are launching Season 8 right away. This seasons' rebate rewards pool will be 7,000,000 veBLACK!Rules for Season 8 Total Rebate Rewards Pool: 7,000,000 veBLACKTo qualify you need to lock at least 2000 veBLACK.Only Supermassive locks count and they have to be created during the active Season.No wallet can receive more than 10% of the total pool, encouraging wider participation and fair distribution.Rebates will be sent as Supermassive NFTs airdropped directly to qualifying wallets at the end of the season.If you transfer a lock between wallets, the rebate goes to the wallet that actually did the locking. You can track everything on the Escape Velocity Dune Dashboard which shows: Total Escape Velocity veBLACK rewards poolAmount of $BLACK burnedCurrent Rebate Rate List of all qualifying wallets with relevant Supermassive veNFTs, amount veBLACK and rebate amount Season 8 ScheduleThis season will span 3 weeks with the following start and end dates: Duration3 weeksStart DateJanuary 29, 12:00 pm, UTCEnd DateFebruary 19, 12:00 pm, UTC How did Season 7 go? Season 7 has come to a close. Together, the community burned over 22.5 million BLACK tokens, with the effective rebate rate settling at a solid 32%! A total of 659 wallets qualified and 1,089 NFT locks were created, showing just how active and committed the community has been. And we're not slowing down. Season 8 kicks off immediately with a big rebate rewards pool : 7,000,000 veBLACK up for grabs!Get Ready to Join Season 8With the recent announcement of Supernova and the Warp Speed Program, Escape Velocity Season 8 stacks on top of those. You can take advantage of this by earning rebate rewards, while accumulating Nova Points, and growing your veBLACK voting power to claim a bigger share of protocol revenue.Follow us on Twitter and Discord, engage actively, and let’s make history: Twitter: https://x.com/BlackholeDEX Discord: https://discord.gg/blackholedex ShareSubscribe

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