# Soft Staking

**What is Soft Staking?**

Soft staking is simply a commitment model in which you just signal — rather than transfer — liquidity to a protocol. With a simple signature, the protocol begins snapshotting your wallet balance and tracking your promised contribution. As long as the assets remain in that wallet, you accrue rewards in real time; move them elsewhere and the reward accrual pauses.

When the network or product goes live, you can finalize the commitment by supplying the actual funds and claiming your accumulated tokens. This approach lets users earn upside from day one without incurring smart‑contract risk or losing custody of their assets.

Hedgehog Soft Staking on Sonic

Join Hedgehog’s Soft Staking program and help bootstrap liquidity for our first market on Sonic. Pre‑commit liquidity with nothing more than a signature. In return, begin stacking future **HOG** tokens from day one.

How It Works

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Step by step flow:

1. **Connect your Sonic wallet** at <https://bootstrap.thehedgehog.io/>

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2\. **Pick a pool** (e.g., *Base Fee Market*) and enter the amount of liquidity you *intend* to supply post‑mainnet.

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3\. **Click on commit.** Your assets stay in your wallet; the protocol just snapshots your balance.

4\. **Earn immediately.** Rewards accrue every hour according to:\
hogTokens = userDeposit \* APY \* (depositedPeriod/365) / pricePerToken

5\. **Launch Day:** Supply the real liquidity on Sonic and claim your HOG.\
\&#xNAN;*Skip the deposit and your pending HOG is redistributed to committed stakers.*

**Remember: Moving funds out of the signing wallet pauses accrual.** Send them back (or re‑enroll) to resume earning.

### Epoch Schedule & Multipliers <a href="#id-85cb" id="id-85cb"></a>

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### Quick Example <a href="#d7e2" id="d7e2"></a>

You commit **$10,000** on Day 3 of Epoch 1, the total capital committed is still below $1,500,000, and hold steady for the full 4 remaining days.

Reward = $10,000 × Epoch APY × (4/365) /$HOG = 119,863 HOG

\* considering 250% APY and $0.4 as the price of HOG

If you later supply that $10k to the chosen pool on Sonic, all 119,863 HOG become claimable.

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