How rewards work

Rewards are earned based on how effectively your station contributes to the network. In short: the better your station’s placement and uptime, the more WINGS tokens you’ll earn.

Overview

Your station earns daily rewards from multiple sources:

• Base Network Rewards

• Early Participant Rewards (EPR)

• Additional Rewards (e.g., Low Altitude rewards)

Each of these is explained in detail below.

Base Rewards

Every day 24 WINGS tokens are added for each coverage hex, that has at least one contributing station, to that day's Base Rewards pool.

• As the network grows and covers more unique hexes, the total daily base rewards pool increases.

• However, adding a station contributing to already-covered hexes does not increase the pool, but dilutes the share among more participants.

Your station's share of the total daily Base Rewards pool is determined by:

• Your station’s individual network ranking, calculated using a network stations PageRank

• The importance of the hexes your station contributes to, calculated using a network hex PageRank

To earn Base rewards:

• Your station must contribute above 100 messages from the hex within the 24-hour period, to get Base rewards for that hex.

Stations that are sole contributors to hexes earn more than stations contributing to currently covered hexes.

Read more about the PageRank algorithm use in our network.

Example Base Rewards for a day:

• If 10,000 res 3 coverage hexes have contributions for the day -> 10,000 hexes x 24 WINGS = 240,000 WINGS to be distributed from the daily base rewards pool among all stations.

• Also if 2400 stations and 10,000 hexes all had equal pagerank values (impossible - but easier math), rewards would be 100 WINGS per station (240,000 WINGS / 2400 stations = 100 WINGS).

Early Participant Rewards (EPR)

EPR is designed to benefit early contributors. Here’s how it works:

• Your station earns 2 WINGS per covered hex per day.

• This reward applies during the first year after mainnet launch, plus all time before mainnet.

• After year one, it decreases by 10% annually and ends entirely after 5 years post-mainnet.

To earn EPR:

• Your station must contribute above a minimum messages level to the hex within the 24-hour period, to get EPR for that hex.

Minimum messages level is still under testing and will be announced later.

Low Altitude Rewards (LA rewards?)

Low Altitude rewards are coming soon. Details will be published once they are enabled.

Final Comments

Having a station located near a major airport, especially with line of sight to runways, is the ideal placement to generate earnings from Low Altitude Rewards.

Clear line of sight to the horizon, for 360 degrees and above all nearby obstacles, will increase your Early Participant Rewards.

Finally, keeping your system online 24/7 will maximize your contributions and reflect in increased Base Rewards daily versus a station that does not stay online 24/7.