What happens to my yield when markets crash?

This question keeps yield seekers awake at night. And for most existing platforms, the answer is brutal.

Price tanks, yield evaporates, and you’re left holding tokens that generate less and less value. It’s the ugly truth of yield systems built on the flawed foundation of excessive price-dependence.

We’re building Seasons with a different assumption: Markets will always move. The direction shouldn’t determine whether the system works.

Think of a vending machine that charges a small fee per transaction.

When items cost $10, you need 100 sales to generate $1000 in fees. When the items cost $1, you need 1000 sales. But cheaper prices attract more buyers, so volume scales up.

The vending machine doesn’t care about the price of what’s inside. How often the buttons get pressed is what matters.

Seasons works in a similar way. Up or down, transactions happen. Transactions generate fees. Fees flow to nodes (10K+ $SEAS holders) as yield.

• During bull markets: Demand and price go up, lowering the volume and velocity requirement for yield-generation.

• During bear markets: Demand and price go down, making the token more accessible and attracting more participants, which boosts volume.

That’s how activity flows through Seasons, and so does yield, in bull and bear markets alike. Here, node owners and yield seekers don’t bet on direction. They’re positioned to capture value from activity, which can happen regardless of whether prices go up or down.

Because they derive yield from asset prices, speculation is the primary (if not only) demand driver for most existing yield systems. For Seasons, however, demand stems from long-term factors like business model ownership, yield access, partner airdrops, and future governance.

While important, speculation plays a secondary role in driving Seasons forward. Instead, the protocol relies on factors that drive every major financial institution, replicating a proven business model onchain: value generated from transaction fee and real activity.

Besides price-independent yield generation and distribution in alternative assets, the reflexive node dynamics is another key component of Seasons’ architecture, ensuring that $SEAS holders earn sustainable alternative yield in every market condition. Markets may rise and fall, but yield is here to stay. That’s the promise.

👇 Join us in transforming YieldFi 👇

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* Originally published: https://seasons.wtf/blog/seasons-node-dynamics

What happens to my yield when markets crash?

This question keeps yield seekers awake at night. And for most existing platforms, the answer is brutal.

Price tanks, yield evaporates, and you’re left holding tokens that generate less and less value. It’s the ugly truth of yield systems built on the flawed foundation of excessive price-dependence.

We’re building Seasons with a different assumption: Markets will always move. The direction shouldn’t determine whether the system works.

Think of a vending machine that charges a small fee per transaction.

When items cost $10, you need 100 sales to generate $1000 in fees. When the items cost $1, you need 1000 sales. But cheaper prices attract more buyers, so volume scales up.

The vending machine doesn’t care about the price of what’s inside. How often the buttons get pressed is what matters.

Seasons works in a similar way. Up or down, transactions happen. Transactions generate fees. Fees flow to nodes (10K+ $SEAS holders) as yield.

• During bull markets: Demand and price go up, lowering the volume and velocity requirement for yield-generation.

• During bear markets: Demand and price go down, making the token more accessible and attracting more participants, which boosts volume.

That’s how activity flows through Seasons, and so does yield, in bull and bear markets alike. Here, node owners and yield seekers don’t bet on direction. They’re positioned to capture value from activity, which can happen regardless of whether prices go up or down.

Because they derive yield from asset prices, speculation is the primary (if not only) demand driver for most existing yield systems. For Seasons, however, demand stems from long-term factors like business model ownership, yield access, partner airdrops, and future governance.

While important, speculation plays a secondary role in driving Seasons forward. Instead, the protocol relies on factors that drive every major financial institution, replicating a proven business model onchain: value generated from transaction fee and real activity.

Besides price-independent yield generation and distribution in alternative assets, the reflexive node dynamics is another key component of Seasons’ architecture, ensuring that $SEAS holders earn sustainable alternative yield in every market condition. Markets may rise and fall, but yield is here to stay. That’s the promise.

👇 Join us in transforming YieldFi 👇

General Resources:
🌐 Website | ✳️ LinkTree | ⚫ Beacons | 📃 Docs

Connect with and Join the community:
X (Twitter) | Telegram | Youtube | LinkedIn

* Originally published: https://seasons.wtf/blog/seasons-node-dynamics