Season One: Securing Your Boost Slot and Referring a Friend

Season One begins during onboarding, before borrowing and lending yield are live.

Right now, Zodial supports deposits and withdrawals while the protocol completes audit and liquidity readiness work. That means early participation is less about immediate yield and more about position: users who deposit early and remain eligible are better placed once Season One is fully active.

Why this phase matters

Depositing during onboarding is primarily about queue position. If you deposit now and stay in, you are not just adding liquidity. You are also securing a boost slot for the full 180 days of Season One once the protocol is fully live post-audit.

What "secure your boost slot" means in practice

The logic is straightforward:

1. Deposit during onboarding.
2. Keep your position in place.
3. Maintain eligibility as the campaign transitions to full live mode.

Missed the first 5%? FIFO still matters

Not everyone can deposit at the exact launch second.

Even if you missed the first 5% tranche, the strategy remains simple: deposit, hold and allow FIFO to take its course.

As the pool increases, eligibility is determined on a first-in, first-out basis. This means that position in the queue still matters over time.

Referral track: refer a friend with intent

Season One also includes a referral component alongside the deposit campaign.

Referrers receive up to 10% of referred users' protocol takerate yield, or up to 20% if they refer with their position public to trade with or against, and the app keeps track of how many users each participant has referred.

Those rewards are volutaly distributed on a fixed monthly schedule.

Why you do not need to worry about long-term lockups

Season One is designed to avoid lockups while liquidity is still forming.

The protocol starts conservatively during onboarding:

• Dynamic interest-rate optimum starts at 50% with around 5% borrow rate.
• As the market matures, the optimum can increase toward 90%.
• That shift is intended to improve depositor yield once utilization and depth are stronger.

If the market never reaches a durable mature state and users vote to close it, a penatly free liquidation process is initiated as part of the wind-down path.