Picture a toll booth on a busy expressway. It captures value every time a vehicle passes through, regardless of its direction. And as long as there’s traffic on the expressway, the price or make of individual vehicles doesn’t matter.

Seasons applies a similar framework to yield, deriving it from Volume x Velocity rather than short-term asset prices. Nodes thus earn sustainable yield in any market condition, because the system relies on movement, not direction.

DeFi protocols — and even traditional instruments, to some extent — typically generate yield by locking up your capital. Moreover, in DeFi, you mostly get paid in native tokens.

The math looks great, until it doesn’t.

When the price of these tokens crashes, either due to market drawdowns (short-term) or inflation (long-term), you end up receiving more and more of something that’s worth less and less over time.

It’s like getting paid in Monopoly money, while you put up your real, hard-earned money on the board. And the worst part: such unfair mechanics are baked into the system. They’re not one-off issues with this-or-that protocol.

Any source or form of yield that depends excessively (or solely) on asset prices and doesn’t come from real economic activity is not sustainable. It cannot be.

Volume represents the total value flowing through a system. Velocity indicates how often the events that generate this value occur.

Together, they measure economic activity — the real engine of sustainable yield.

Just like the toll booth captures value every time a vehicle passes through, a 10% fee is collected every time someone buys or sells $SEAS. This fee goes into a pool that anyone can verify and ultimately flows back to nodes (wallets holding 10,000 or more $SEAS tokens).

The mechanism doesn’t care if the price of $SEAS or any other asset goes up or down. As long as there’s activity, i.e., ‘Buy’ or ‘Sell’ trades, nodes keep earning yield on Seasons. They capitalize on movement itself, not direction.

What’s more: the yield is distributed in a diversified mix of liquid assets, not $SEAS tokens. It makes Seasons even more resilient to short-term market fluctuations, further decoupling the yield-value from the price or volatility of $SEAS.

And there are no lock-ups on the yield you earn with Seasons. You’re free to use it as you like: swap for more $SEAS to increase your node’s weight (earning more yield), off-ramp into fiat to meet expenses, or just hold. Your yield, you decide. No hidden conditions.

Existing yield systems, both in traditional finance and crypto, have peddled a fair-weather dream for so long. When markets go up, yield goes up. When markets drop, yield disappears. Not just in terms of value; the entire mechanism collapses.

Seasons, however, is designed to match the robustness and reliability of long-term infrastructure. Optimized for consistency, functionality, and resilience, it just works from Day-1.

The toll booth doesn’t care if it’s day or night, summer or winter. It generates value as long as there’s traffic, whether less or more. And Seasons doesn’t care if it’s a bull or a bear market.

Markets may rise and fall. Prices may fluctuate. Traders may rotate in and out. But as long as there’s activity involving $SEAS, yield flows to nodes.

Seize the moment. $SEAS the yield.

👇 Join us in transforming YieldFi 👇

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

Connect with and Join the community:
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Originally published: https://seasons.wtf/blog/volume-x-velocity-the-engine-of-sustainable-yield

Picture a toll booth on a busy expressway. It captures value every time a vehicle passes through, regardless of its direction. And as long as there’s traffic on the expressway, the price or make of individual vehicles doesn’t matter.

Seasons applies a similar framework to yield, deriving it from Volume x Velocity rather than short-term asset prices. Nodes thus earn sustainable yield in any market condition, because the system relies on movement, not direction.

DeFi protocols — and even traditional instruments, to some extent — typically generate yield by locking up your capital. Moreover, in DeFi, you mostly get paid in native tokens.

The math looks great, until it doesn’t.

When the price of these tokens crashes, either due to market drawdowns (short-term) or inflation (long-term), you end up receiving more and more of something that’s worth less and less over time.

It’s like getting paid in Monopoly money, while you put up your real, hard-earned money on the board. And the worst part: such unfair mechanics are baked into the system. They’re not one-off issues with this-or-that protocol.

Any source or form of yield that depends excessively (or solely) on asset prices and doesn’t come from real economic activity is not sustainable. It cannot be.

Volume represents the total value flowing through a system. Velocity indicates how often the events that generate this value occur.

Together, they measure economic activity — the real engine of sustainable yield.

Just like the toll booth captures value every time a vehicle passes through, a 10% fee is collected every time someone buys or sells $SEAS. This fee goes into a pool that anyone can verify and ultimately flows back to nodes (wallets holding 10,000 or more $SEAS tokens).

The mechanism doesn’t care if the price of $SEAS or any other asset goes up or down. As long as there’s activity, i.e., ‘Buy’ or ‘Sell’ trades, nodes keep earning yield on Seasons. They capitalize on movement itself, not direction.

What’s more: the yield is distributed in a diversified mix of liquid assets, not $SEAS tokens. It makes Seasons even more resilient to short-term market fluctuations, further decoupling the yield-value from the price or volatility of $SEAS.

And there are no lock-ups on the yield you earn with Seasons. You’re free to use it as you like: swap for more $SEAS to increase your node’s weight (earning more yield), off-ramp into fiat to meet expenses, or just hold. Your yield, you decide. No hidden conditions.

Existing yield systems, both in traditional finance and crypto, have peddled a fair-weather dream for so long. When markets go up, yield goes up. When markets drop, yield disappears. Not just in terms of value; the entire mechanism collapses.

Seasons, however, is designed to match the robustness and reliability of long-term infrastructure. Optimized for consistency, functionality, and resilience, it just works from Day-1.

The toll booth doesn’t care if it’s day or night, summer or winter. It generates value as long as there’s traffic, whether less or more. And Seasons doesn’t care if it’s a bull or a bear market.

Markets may rise and fall. Prices may fluctuate. Traders may rotate in and out. But as long as there’s activity involving $SEAS, yield flows to nodes.

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/volume-x-velocity-the-engine-of-sustainable-yield