There’s a fundamental problem with how most crypto yield works today.

When prices go up, yield looks great. When prices crash, it disappears. The moment you need it most — during market downturns — traditional yield systems fail because they’re too dependent on asset price appreciation.

It’s not sustainable. And it’s definitely not what long-term holders need.

Seasons changes that equation entirely.

Think about traditional finance or even the natural world. The most stable, robust sources of yield don’t run on the hope that asset prices will go up. They derive value from actual activity. Transaction fees, services charges, and other real economic flows.

Broadly, healthy financial systems run on two key metrics: volume and velocity.

How many transactions happen. How fast they move. These are the things that matter.

And that’s exactly how Seasons works, but fully onchain.

Instead of depending on the short-term price appreciation of $SEAS or any other token, Seasons captures value from transaction fees and distributes it back to the community.

Every time someone buys or sells $SEAS on decentralized exchanges, the protocol collects a 10% fee. This goes into an onchain account (smart contract), and eventually to anyone holding at least 10K $SEAS tokens in their wallet.

More transactions mean more fees, which means more yield for everyone. Irrespective of how the markets are performing at any given point in time.

It’s not magic — just better mechanism design.

Most YieldFi protocols face a death spiral problem.

When their token price drops, yield drops. When yield drops, people sell. When people sell, the price drops more. The cycle repeats until the system collapses.

We’re breaking this chain!

Because yield on Seasons doesn’t depend on price, the tokenized mechanism works irrespective of whether $SEAS trades at $1 or $10 or $100.

What matters is the amount being transacted. If someone buys $10 worth of $SEAS, $1 goes towards generating yield. Likewise for $100 or $1000.

Thus $SEAS holders benefit consistently and sustainably, during bull and bear markets alike:

• Bull markets: High activity drives transaction volume up

• Bear markets: Lower prices enable higher transaction velocity

The mechanism adapts to market conditions and works in all of them, rather than succumbing to the pressure of short-term volatility.

And since the yield ultimately comes from transaction volume, anyone can start contributing to yield-generation on Seasons, with pretty much as little as $1 — every transaction counts.

We cannot (must not) control how markets work; how they rise and fall in cycles, changing just like seasons in the natural world.

What we can ensure, however, is resilience in the face of change. That’s what we’re doing with Seasons.

Yield is the marker of healthy financial systems.

So by fixing yield, we’re fixing the state of global finance and laying the foundation for a truly better future.

👇 Join us in transforming YieldFi: 👇

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

Connect with us and Join the community:
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* Originally published: https://seasons.wtf/blog/yield-that-works-when-markets-dont

There’s a fundamental problem with how most crypto yield works today.

When prices go up, yield looks great. When prices crash, it disappears. The moment you need it most — during market downturns — traditional yield systems fail because they’re too dependent on asset price appreciation.

It’s not sustainable. And it’s definitely not what long-term holders need.

Seasons changes that equation entirely.

Think about traditional finance or even the natural world. The most stable, robust sources of yield don’t run on the hope that asset prices will go up. They derive value from actual activity. Transaction fees, services charges, and other real economic flows.

Broadly, healthy financial systems run on two key metrics: volume and velocity.

How many transactions happen. How fast they move. These are the things that matter.

And that’s exactly how Seasons works, but fully onchain.

Instead of depending on the short-term price appreciation of $SEAS or any other token, Seasons captures value from transaction fees and distributes it back to the community.

Every time someone buys or sells $SEAS on decentralized exchanges, the protocol collects a 10% fee. This goes into an onchain account (smart contract), and eventually to anyone holding at least 10K $SEAS tokens in their wallet.

More transactions mean more fees, which means more yield for everyone. Irrespective of how the markets are performing at any given point in time.

It’s not magic — just better mechanism design.

Most YieldFi protocols face a death spiral problem.

When their token price drops, yield drops. When yield drops, people sell. When people sell, the price drops more. The cycle repeats until the system collapses.

We’re breaking this chain!

Because yield on Seasons doesn’t depend on price, the tokenized mechanism works irrespective of whether $SEAS trades at $1 or $10 or $100.

What matters is the amount being transacted. If someone buys $10 worth of $SEAS, $1 goes towards generating yield. Likewise for $100 or $1000.

Thus $SEAS holders benefit consistently and sustainably, during bull and bear markets alike:

• Bull markets: High activity drives transaction volume up

• Bear markets: Lower prices enable higher transaction velocity

The mechanism adapts to market conditions and works in all of them, rather than succumbing to the pressure of short-term volatility.

And since the yield ultimately comes from transaction volume, anyone can start contributing to yield-generation on Seasons, with pretty much as little as $1 — every transaction counts.

We cannot (must not) control how markets work; how they rise and fall in cycles, changing just like seasons in the natural world.

What we can ensure, however, is resilience in the face of change. That’s what we’re doing with Seasons.

Yield is the marker of healthy financial systems.

So by fixing yield, we’re fixing the state of global finance and laying the foundation for a truly better future.

👇 Join us in transforming YieldFi: 👇

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

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

* Originally published: https://seasons.wtf/blog/yield-that-works-when-markets-dont