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# Faucet

1% daily returns.

The Stake faucet permanently locks $STAKE deposits, for which you receive 1% daily returns everyday for 365 days (NFV \* 365%). You may compound your balance daily to increase and extend your earnings indefinitely, or until your max payout is reached.

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**Good to know:** Staking in faucet is Permanent. However it gives you acces of up to 3% daily returns (1% faucet + 2% rebase). 
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Deposits, Compounding, Claiming, and Airdrops all have an effect on your Net Deposits (ND) which in turn affects your NERD.

Every 1 $STAKE compounded or deposited will extend your Max Payout by 3.65 $STAKE. 

Stake's daily reward is sustainable due to several factors. 

1. Fees- Stake uses fees from almost any transaction to seed the reward pool and increase sustainability of the project long term. 
2. NERD - Rebase depletion goes directly to the reward pool as well,  which therefore takes a negative situation like dumping, and turns it into a positive long term sustainability protocol.
3. Whale Fees-As claims grow, increased whale fees are added, which then go directly to the reward pool to again extend sustainability. 

See the [Fees](/docs/stake-protocol/fees.md) section for all fees.