Overview
Quarry is designed to be used as a tool that becomes more decentralized over time. Since the launch of Quarry, every time a new protocol wanted to get listed as a rewarder our team had to manually support onboarding. This was a strain on our resources & so we created a onboarding flow that protocols can go through on the website to create their Rewarder & Quarries.
Once teams are happy with their Quarries they must submit a PR to our Github registry with a config file containing the Rewarder information in order to show up on the official website.
This guide is aimed at two types of users:
- User A: Protocols that already have a reward token
- User B: New protocols that haven't launched their token yet
These users usually fall into one of three categories:
- They are looking to provide rewards to their own Quarries.
- They are looking to provide rewards to other protocols' existing Quarries.
- Both.
Note: Any SPL token can only have 1 Primary Quarry for users to stake into. For example, Saber UST-solUST LP can only be staked into the Saber UST-solUST Primary Quarry. Any other Rewarder can create a Replica Quarry for any Primary Quarry and provide their reward token to users staking into the Primary Quarry. There is no limit on how many Replica Quarries may exist on a single Primary Quarry.
These are the most important notes to keep in mind before launching a Quarry:
In order to create any kind of Quarry (doesn't matter what category you fall into) you will need to launch a Rewarder. The Rewarder will automatically create a Mint Wrapper which you can set the metadata of in order to be recognizable. The Mint Wrapper is the actual token minted by the Quarry program and sent to stakers.
If you already have a reward token, you should make the Mint Wrapper token be named: Your Token Name IOU token & have a recognizable icon. This also means you will need to fund the Redeemer with your underlying token & users will need to accept a second transaction to convert their IOU when claiming. You must be the mint authority of the underlying token. (????)
If you have not already launched a reward token, you should make the Mint Wrapper token the official reward token. In this case you do not need to fund the Redeemer. This only applies to User B.