The Sheriff's Vault is Vendetta Saloon's staking system. Lock VDT tokens in the vault and earn a proportional share of the 5% treasury cut that flows from every bet placed on the platform. The more you stake, and the more you play, the larger your cut of each distribution.
The mechanics are straightforward: 5% of every wager goes to the treasury. Periodically, that treasury is distributed to all active stakers. Your share is determined by your effective weight — which is your staking tier's base weight multiplied by your activity multiplier. Two people staking the same amount but with different play histories will earn different shares.
There are four staking tiers based on how much VDT you lock. Settler requires 100,000 VDT and carries a 1× base weight — the baseline share. Gunslinger requires 500,000 VDT at 2× weight, meaning a Gunslinger earns twice what a Settler does for the same amount staked. Outlaw requires 2,000,000 VDT at 4× weight. Sheriff requires 10,000,000 VDT at 10× weight — the maximum base tier. At current VDT prices (approximately $0.0002 per VDT), these thresholds represent roughly $20, $100, $400, and $2,000 respectively — but the thresholds are in VDT, not dollars.
On top of your tier weight, your activity on the platform adds a multiplier. New stakers start at 1.0×. Wager 10,000 chips all-time to reach Regular tier (1.1× multiplier). Wager 100,000 chips for Veteran (1.25×). Wager 500,000 chips for High Roller (1.5×). These stack multiplicatively with your tier weight. A Sheriff-tier staker with High Roller activity reaches an effective weight of 15× — the maximum possible on the platform.
Staked VDT is locked for 7 days from deposit. You can request an unstake at any time, but you'll receive your VDT back within 24 hours after the lock period clears. The lock isn't punitive — it exists to ensure the pool composition is stable between distribution events and to prevent in-and-out behavior that would dilute serious stakers. To be eligible to stake at all, you need at least 10 bets placed on the platform — staking is intended for players who are already engaged with the casino, not passive VDT holders.
The economics of staking are tied directly to platform activity. When volume is high, the treasury accumulates faster and distributions are larger. When volume is low, distributions are smaller. There's no guaranteed yield percentage — returns are proportional to how much revenue the platform generates. This is intentional: stakers benefit directly from growth in player activity, aligning their interests with the health of the platform rather than a fixed rate that might be unsustainable.
From a tokenomics standpoint, staking reduces VDT circulating supply during the lock period. Combined with the per-bet burn mechanism (which permanently removes VDT from supply with every real wager), staking creates two parallel deflationary pressures: circulating supply is both temporarily locked in the vault and permanently reduced through burns. Both mechanisms are on-chain and verifiable on Polygon.
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