🚜Yield Farming

Yield Farms allow users to earn FLASK while supporting Labswap by staking LP Tokens.

Yield farming can give better rewards than Stake Pools, but it comes with a risk of Impermanent Loss. It’s not as scary as it sounds, but it is worth learning about the concept before you get started.

Check out this great article about Impermanent Loss from Binance Academy to learn more.

Reward calculations

Yield Farm APR calculations include both:

• LP rewards APR earned through providing liquidity and;

• Farm base rewards APR earned staking LP Tokens in the Farm.

Why? Because when you stake your LP tokens in a farm to earn FLASK, you're still providing liquidity to the liquidity pool, so you earn LP rewards as well!

So how do we calculate those figures?

Calculating Farm Base Reward APR

The Farm Base APR is calculated according to the farm multiplier and the total amount of liquidity in the farm -- this is the amount of FLASK distributed to the farm.

Calculating LP Reward APR

On top of that, farmers receive LP rewards for providing liquidity. Here's an example of calculating LP rewards:

In the WBNB/BUSD pair above, we see these values:

Liquidity: $387.42M Volume 24H: $96.97M Volume 7D: 709.73M

• Calculate yearly fees

  • Use the 24H volume to calculate the fee share of liquidity providers in the pool (based on the 0.17% trading fee structure): $96,970,000*0.17/100 = $164,849

  • Next, use that fee share to estimate the projected yearly fees earned by the pool (based on the current 24h volume): $164,849*365 = $60,169,885

• We can now use the yearly fees to calculate the LP rewards APR: That's yearly fees divided by liquidity: ($60,169,885/$387,420,000)*100 = 15.53% LP reward APR Get prepped

  Yield farming takes a little work to get set up.

  You’re going to need some "LP Tokens" to enter into a Farm with. Farms can only accept their own exact LP Token; for example, the FLASK-BNB Farm will only accept FLASK-BNB LP Tokens.

  To get the exact LP Token, you'll need to provide liquidity for that trading pair. So to get FLASK-BNB LP Tokens, you'll first have to provide liquidity for the FLASK-BNB pair.

  It may sound intimidating, but it's not too complicated. Let's go through step by step.

  Finding your Farm

  Before you proceed, you'll want to choose a Farm that's right for you. Visit the Farms page and you’ll see a list of available Farms.

  

  You can choose another sorting option if you like, such as by APR for the Farms with the highest reward rate currently.

  When you find a Farm that you'd like to use, note down the trading pair, e.g. BNB-FLASK in case you need it later.

  Providing liquidity to get LP Tokens

  Now that you've found a Farm to stake in, you will need to add liquidity to get your LP Tokens.

  1. Click on the row of the Farm you've chosen from the list. It will open to show more details.

  2. On the left, you'll see some links. Click the Get (your pair) LP link.

  Putting your LP Tokens into a farm

  Now that you have your LP Tokens, you’re ready to start staking them in a Farm and earning rewards!

  1 - Go back to the Farms page and locate your Farm. Click anywhere on the row showing your pair. It will expand to show more details.

  

  When you’re ready, click the Enable button and confirm your action in your wallet.

  2 - After a short wait, the Enable button will change to Stake LP. Click it and a new window will appear.

  3 - Type the amount of LP Tokens you would like to farm with into the field, or just click Max to use all of your LP Tokens.

  4 - When you have the amount entered, the Confirm button will light up. Click it. Your wallet will ask you to confirm your action.

  5 - After a short wait, the window will close, and you will see your new staked LP Token balance in the details.

  Adding or removing LP Tokens from a Farm

  You may decide you would like to add more LP Tokens to a Farm at a later date, or to take some out of a Farm. You can do this very easily whenever you'd like.

  1. Return to the Yield Farms page. At the top of the page you'll see a Staked only toggle. Click the toggle.

  

  You should now only see the pairs you have LP Tokens in on the list, making it easier to find your Farm.

  1. Find the Farm you have LP Tokens in, and click the row to view details. You will see a - and + button on the right-hand side. Click - to remove LP Tokens, or + to add more LP Tokens.

  1. A window will open that looks like the one you used earlier to first stake your LP Tokens. Like last time, type the amount you would like to unstake/stake, or click Max to remove/add all available LP Tokens.

  1. Make sure your information is correct. When you are ready, click the Confirm button and confirm the action in your wallet.

  2. After a short wait, your new balance will show in the details section of your LP Token pair. If you've unstaked your LP Tokens, any unharvested rewards you had will automatically have been collected.

  Collecting your farming rewards

  Farming will bring you FLASK rewards over time. You can collect these rewards and use them to get more LP Tokens, stake them in Stake Pools.

  Returning to your Farm to Harvest

  You can harvest your Farm and Stake Pool rewards together from the Home page. If you'd like to collect your farming rewards only, follow along.

  To collect your rewards, you’ll need to visit your chosen Farm and collect the FLASK waiting for you.

  1 - Return to the Farms page here.

  2 - Find the Farm you staked your LP Tokens in, and click the row to view details. You should see an estimate of your rewards under “FLASK earned”.

  3 - Click the Harvest button and confirm the action in your wallet. After a short wait, the FLASK will be claimed to your wallet for you to use as you like.

  How often should I harvest my rewards?

  How often you harvest your rewards is up to you, but it does help to remember that there is a small fee involved in harvesting.

  You can see this fee in your wallet when confirming after clicking Harvest.

  

  This shows the fee for harvesting as it appears in the MetaMask wallet. Different wallets will show the information a little differently. Consider leaving your rewards to grow for a while so you pay fees less often.