# Rewards

By [alipay](https://paragraph.com/@huifengbank) · 2022-01-26

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All participants in the HydraDX crowdloan will **receive HDX** in exchange for their contributions. The amount of the rewards depends on **our rank in the parachain auction race** at the time of your contribution, as well as the **total amount of DOT** which have been contributed by others.

Contributions made **before** **HydraDX is** **leading** **the race by** **15%** will receive the highest amount of rewards - **between** **280 and 125 HDX per contributed DOT**. 

After we have secured a comfortable lead, the rewards **will start decreasing linearly**. They will be at their lowest level once HydraDX has a **lead of 25% or more**. Contributions made during the time that we are leading by more than 25% will receive **between 28 and 12.5 HDX per contributed DOT**.

The rewards system is designed to **offset the opportunity costs** of locking your DOT for the duration of the parachain lease, as opposed to staking it. Contributions made before we have gained a 15% lead will get their **full opportunity costs reimbursed**. The **price of HDX** used for the calculation is **$ 0.026**. This number is based on the closing HDX LBP price of $ 0.08 (February 2021), after taking into account the upcoming tripling of all balances which were built up during our testnet.

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*Originally published on [alipay](https://paragraph.com/@huifengbank/rewards)*