How your deposit becomes tokens
Four steps, each one a multiplication. Your points come first, then your slice of the total pool, then how many tokens that slice is worth, then what those tokens are worth in dollars.
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Sensitivity: what if you stayed longer?
Same deposit, rate, multiplier, pool size and allocation — only days staked changes. Points scale linearly with time, but so does everyone else's pool, so the real driver of your return is whether your points grow faster than the total pool grows.
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Why this projection matters
Points-farming campaigns ask you to lock capital for months on the promise of a future airdrop, and almost no one farming them runs the actual math — they deposit, watch a points counter go up, and hope. This calculator turns that hope into a number: your share of the pool, your expected tokens and the annualized return that implies, so you can compare a restaking points campaign against just holding or staking outright on the validator staking calculator. If you already received tokens from a completed airdrop and want to value them directly, use the crypto airdrop calculator instead — this page is for projecting before the token exists, that one is for valuing after. And because points-farming math is structurally the same whether the yield source is a restaking protocol or a perp DEX volume-and-points program, the perp DEX points farming ROI calculator runs the equivalent projection for exchange point systems. None of these projections account for what you can lose while you wait — check that side of the trade on the liquid restaking risk calculator before sizing a position around a points campaign.
The math
Your points accrue as deposit × rate × days × multiplier — a straight line, since most points programs pay a fixed rate per dollar per day and any multiplier from stacking a liquid restaking token into a second or third protocol applies uniformly. Your pool share is your points divided by the protocol-wide total at the snapshot the token generation event uses, which is usually disclosed only after the fact — everything downstream of this ratio depends on an estimate of a number you cannot observe directly while the campaign is live.
The protocol reserves some percentage of total token supply for the points program; multiplying that percentage by total supply gives the token pool being divided among every points holder. Your tokens received is your pool share times that token pool, and the USD value is simply tokens times an assumed launch price — itself a guess, since points programs rarely trade before they convert.
The annualized return normalizes the USD value against your deposit and the time it was locked: (USD value ÷ deposit) × (365 ÷ days staked) × 100. It lets you compare a 90-day points campaign against a 12-month staking commitment on equal footing, but remember it is a projection built on two unknowns — the eventual total points pool and the launch price — not a guaranteed yield.