UwulendUwulend vesting: timing and early claims
UwU Lend’s February 22, 2024 guide describes vesting for UwU incentives earned from deposits and borrowing on Ethereum. After the user starts vesting, a full claim requires four weekly blocks aligned to Thursday at 00:00 UTC. An early exit pays 50% of the reward amount being exited and forfeits the other half.
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Documented reward terms
| Parameter | Documented term |
|---|---|
| Rewards covered | UwU incentives earned from deposits and borrowing. |
| Schedule activation | The user selects Start vesting in the Rewards section on the Stake page or Dashboard. |
| Vesting schedule | Four weekly blocks, with weekly boundaries on Thursday at 00:00 UTC. |
| Full claim | The fully vested UwU reward amount can be withdrawn after its vesting schedule is complete. |
| Early exit | The wallet receives 50% of the UwU rewards covered by the early exit; the remaining 50% is forfeited. |
| Maturity information | The Rewards section on the Stake page shows vesting end dates. |
| The payout percentage measures UwU tokens retained. Ethereum transaction gas is a separate cost. | |
How weekly boundaries affect the wait
Because the blocks follow a shared UTC boundary, elapsed waiting time depends on when vesting starts. The wait can be shorter than four complete weeks measured from initiation. The recorded vesting end date identifies when the rewards finish vesting.
Completing some weekly blocks doesn’t remove the 50% deduction for an exit before full vesting under these terms. Reaching maturity and withdrawing the tokens are also separate actions: the guide describes a manual claim of fully vested UwU.
Which balance the deduction affects
Lending interest accrues in the supplied position represented by uTokens. Additional UwU incentives accumulate separately; the February guide displays their reward rate as APR and requires vesting before a full claim. The early-exit deduction applies to those UwU rewards, so a 50% penalty doesn’t mean surrendering half the original lending deposit.
xUwU staking has its own timing rule. In xUwU: Expanding the Flywheel, published February 29, 2024, each new stake of UwU triggers a 72-hour lock on all xUwU in that wallet. That lock governs the staking position separately from the four weekly blocks for deposit and borrowing incentives.
Where early-exit penalties go
The February 22 guide routed forfeited UwU into revenue distributed to LP stakers. UwU Lend’s UwU Lend Rewards Flywheel: V3 , published July 12, 2024, described a later allocation: UwU from early-exit penalties goes to the platform and is then deposited into the xUwU contract for distribution to stakers.
The 2024 publications don’t confirm whether a particular reward balance can be claimed today.