You’ve probably heard (or read) about Seasons Nodes several times in the past two months. Let’s break down what it actually means, and more importantly, what it means for you. No BS. No jargon. A straight explanation of what you’re participating in when you hold 10K+ $SEAS.

Any Solana wallet holding 10,000 or more $SEAS tokens is a Seasons node.

That’s it. That’s the entire definition.

You’re not running any complex infrastructure and expensive machines. You’re not validating transactions. In fact you’re not doing anything remotely technical.

You’re simply holding the required amount of $SEAS tokens in your wallet.

Think of it as a coffee shop membership:

• Regular customers walk in, buy coffee, and leave. Done.

• Members walk in, buy coffee. But because they have a membership card, they benefit every time the shop does business. Not just when they buy coffee, but also when anyone buys coffee.

Your wallet with 10K+ $SEAS is your membership pass for Seasons’ tokenized yield mechanism. And owning $SEAS is like owning the business model of every major, successful financial institution out there.

As explained in our official documentation, becoming a node requires:

• Getting 10,000+ $SEAS tokens

• Holding them in your Solana wallet (not on any exchange)

• Maintaining the threshold balance of 10K+ $SEAS

But if you look closely, in practice, it all boils down to just one thing: hold 10,000+ $SEAS in your Solana wallet.

As long as you do that, the rest happens automatically.

No staking. No depositing into smart contracts. No lock-up periods.

And most importantly, YOUR tokens stay in YOUR wallet under YOUR control. Always.

Now you know what a Seasons node is and what you need to become one, let’s run through how it works behind the scenes.

Whenever someone buys or sells $SEAS tokens on the open market — i.e., decentralized exchanges like Jupiter — they pay a 10% fee. This fuels the entire system.

More trades (buys & sells) = more fees = bigger yield pool (a.k.a. more yield for nodes).

This is where the Volume x Velocity formula comes in. When more people transact $SEAS (volume), and the more often they do it (velocity), there’s ultimately more yield for everyone who’s a node. It’s a simple, yet powerful, flywheel that works in any market condition.

The fees collected on $SEAS trades is automatically collected in a dedicated pool (specially, an onchain ‘smart contract’ that anyone can verify). From here, it’s distributed to nodes (see next step), once either of the following conditions are met:

• Value threshold: When the collected fees equals or exceeds $50,000

• Time threshold: Roughly every four hours

As of January 7, 2026, we’re calculating and distributing yield manually, twice every week. But as outlined in our ‘26 for 2026’ gameplan, we aim to automate the yield acquisition and distribution pipelines this year. Once that’s done, nodes will start earning real-time yield as described above.

Once the value or time thresholds are met (and currently, twice a week), the accumulated fees is used to acquire the alternative assets for yield payouts, following the 60–30–10 ratio:

• 60% blue chips: Established assets for stability

• 30% underdogs: Emerging projects with strong fundamentals for momentum

• 10% rising stars: Promising newcomers for high growth potential

These assets are distributed directly to nodes. You wake up, check your wallet, and it’s there. No claiming process. No gas fees to collect.

Just…there.

At any given point, the assets included in yield payouts are enlisted in our Inclusion List. As of January 7, 2026, nodes are earning yield in five Solana memecoins, including $BONK, $WIF, $PENGU, $FARTCOIN, and $JBMB. Other assets will be added to the list in future.

Once the yield reaches your wallet, you’re free to do whatever you please with it.

Hold them to ride the any price appreciation. Swap them for more $SEAS to increase your node’s weight (i.e., earning potential). Sell them for stablecoins or any other asset.

Your yield, your choice. Seasons doesn’t impose any conditions or lock-ups on the yield you earn — that’s one of the ways we stand out from the herd.

Check out our ‘Lifecycle of Yield’ blog post for a complete breakdown of how yield flows through Seasons, from fees to your wallet.

Before we wrap this, let’s reiterate one of the key aspects of being a Seasons node: your assets, your wallet, you’re in control.

Most DeFi or yield protocols require you to deposit — that is, lock up — your tokens in some smart contract. This creates various problems and risks:

• Your tokens are no longer in your direct control.

• You may lose your tokens altogether if the protocol’s code is compromised. For context, users have lost over $3.5 billion to DeFi hacks and thefts in 2025 alone.

• You can’t exit whenever you want because of lock-ups.

• Staking, unstaking, claiming — earning DeFi yield can get too complicated too soon, with most steps adding to the overall cost due to gas fees, etc.

Seasons eliminates all of these risks and hassles.

Your $SEAS tokens never leave your wallet, and you fully own the yield you earn.

This puts you in complete control of your yield-earning journey. And if at any point you want to stop earning yield, you’re free to sell your $SEAS tokens.

With Seasons, you get the real taste of permissionless, non-custodial decentralized finance. That too, with the seamlessness and ease-of-access of traditional finance. The best of both worlds, enhanced with a community-centric, win-win-win approach.

Seize the moment. $SEAS the yield.

👇 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/the-anatomy-of-a-seasons-node

You’ve probably heard (or read) about Seasons Nodes several times in the past two months. Let’s break down what it actually means, and more importantly, what it means for you. No BS. No jargon. A straight explanation of what you’re participating in when you hold 10K+ $SEAS.

Any Solana wallet holding 10,000 or more $SEAS tokens is a Seasons node.

That’s it. That’s the entire definition.

You’re not running any complex infrastructure and expensive machines. You’re not validating transactions. In fact you’re not doing anything remotely technical.

You’re simply holding the required amount of $SEAS tokens in your wallet.

Think of it as a coffee shop membership:

• Regular customers walk in, buy coffee, and leave. Done.

• Members walk in, buy coffee. But because they have a membership card, they benefit every time the shop does business. Not just when they buy coffee, but also when anyone buys coffee.

Your wallet with 10K+ $SEAS is your membership pass for Seasons’ tokenized yield mechanism. And owning $SEAS is like owning the business model of every major, successful financial institution out there.

As explained in our official documentation, becoming a node requires:

• Getting 10,000+ $SEAS tokens

• Holding them in your Solana wallet (not on any exchange)

• Maintaining the threshold balance of 10K+ $SEAS

But if you look closely, in practice, it all boils down to just one thing: hold 10,000+ $SEAS in your Solana wallet.

As long as you do that, the rest happens automatically.

No staking. No depositing into smart contracts. No lock-up periods.

And most importantly, YOUR tokens stay in YOUR wallet under YOUR control. Always.

Now you know what a Seasons node is and what you need to become one, let’s run through how it works behind the scenes.

Whenever someone buys or sells $SEAS tokens on the open market — i.e., decentralized exchanges like Jupiter — they pay a 10% fee. This fuels the entire system.

More trades (buys & sells) = more fees = bigger yield pool (a.k.a. more yield for nodes).

This is where the Volume x Velocity formula comes in. When more people transact $SEAS (volume), and the more often they do it (velocity), there’s ultimately more yield for everyone who’s a node. It’s a simple, yet powerful, flywheel that works in any market condition.

The fees collected on $SEAS trades is automatically collected in a dedicated pool (specially, an onchain ‘smart contract’ that anyone can verify). From here, it’s distributed to nodes (see next step), once either of the following conditions are met:

• Value threshold: When the collected fees equals or exceeds $50,000

• Time threshold: Roughly every four hours

As of January 7, 2026, we’re calculating and distributing yield manually, twice every week. But as outlined in our ‘26 for 2026’ gameplan, we aim to automate the yield acquisition and distribution pipelines this year. Once that’s done, nodes will start earning real-time yield as described above.

Once the value or time thresholds are met (and currently, twice a week), the accumulated fees is used to acquire the alternative assets for yield payouts, following the 60–30–10 ratio:

• 60% blue chips: Established assets for stability

• 30% underdogs: Emerging projects with strong fundamentals for momentum

• 10% rising stars: Promising newcomers for high growth potential

These assets are distributed directly to nodes. You wake up, check your wallet, and it’s there. No claiming process. No gas fees to collect.

Just…there.

At any given point, the assets included in yield payouts are enlisted in our Inclusion List. As of January 7, 2026, nodes are earning yield in five Solana memecoins, including $BONK, $WIF, $PENGU, $FARTCOIN, and $JBMB. Other assets will be added to the list in future.

Once the yield reaches your wallet, you’re free to do whatever you please with it.

Hold them to ride the any price appreciation. Swap them for more $SEAS to increase your node’s weight (i.e., earning potential). Sell them for stablecoins or any other asset.

Your yield, your choice. Seasons doesn’t impose any conditions or lock-ups on the yield you earn — that’s one of the ways we stand out from the herd.

Check out our ‘Lifecycle of Yield’ blog post for a complete breakdown of how yield flows through Seasons, from fees to your wallet.

Before we wrap this, let’s reiterate one of the key aspects of being a Seasons node: your assets, your wallet, you’re in control.

Most DeFi or yield protocols require you to deposit — that is, lock up — your tokens in some smart contract. This creates various problems and risks:

• Your tokens are no longer in your direct control.

• You may lose your tokens altogether if the protocol’s code is compromised. For context, users have lost over $3.5 billion to DeFi hacks and thefts in 2025 alone.

• You can’t exit whenever you want because of lock-ups.

• Staking, unstaking, claiming — earning DeFi yield can get too complicated too soon, with most steps adding to the overall cost due to gas fees, etc.

Seasons eliminates all of these risks and hassles.

Your $SEAS tokens never leave your wallet, and you fully own the yield you earn.

This puts you in complete control of your yield-earning journey. And if at any point you want to stop earning yield, you’re free to sell your $SEAS tokens.

With Seasons, you get the real taste of permissionless, non-custodial decentralized finance. That too, with the seamlessness and ease-of-access of traditional finance. The best of both worlds, enhanced with a community-centric, win-win-win approach.

Seize the moment. $SEAS the yield.

👇 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/the-anatomy-of-a-seasons-node