Tidal's edge · 03 of 3

A token that gets paid when Wall Street is closed.

$TIDE isn't a governance-washed ticker bolted on after the fact. Stake it into the Tide Pool and earn a pro-rata share of the exact fee premium Session Guard collects off-session — the incremental fee LPs charge on stock-token pairs when NYSE RTH is closed and books are thin. No emissions schedule funding the yield: it's underwritten by a real, already-specified swap-fee mechanism, not token inflation.

Mechanism

How the off-session premium becomes staker yield. Split and lockup parameters below are illustrative defaults, set at pool deployment — not fixed protocol constants.

Specified, not deployed

Source of yield

The off-session fee-tier escalation Session Guard applies to stock-token pairs — see Session Guard. In-session swap fees are unaffected and continue to flow entirely to LPs as normal; only the incremental off-session delta feeds the Tide Pool.

Split

Illustrative default: 100% of the off-session premium (the delta above the in-session fee tier) routes to the Tide Pool, distributed pro-rata to staked $TIDE. Final split is a deploy-time parameter.

Staking

Stake or unstake $TIDE into the Tide Pool contract; rewards accrue continuously and are claimable at any time. No lockup specified yet — under evaluation against flash-stake/griefing vectors ahead of mainnet.

Scope

Applies only to stock-token pairs with Session Guard active. Crypto/crypto pools generate no Tide Pool yield — there's no RTH-driven premium to share on a pair with no reference session.

Known gap

Tide Pool is a specified mechanism, not deployed infrastructure. No staking contract, no token contract, and no live yield exist yet — this page describes the design, not a running system.

$TIDE vs. a bolted-on governance token

Generic protocol token

✕Yield funded by token emissions / inflation

✕Utility bolted on after launch, unrelated to the core mechanism

✕No connection between what the protocol does and what stakers earn

Tidal · $TIDE / Tide Pool

✓Yield sourced from a real swap-fee premium, not emissions

✓Directly wired to Session Guard, the protocol's own flagship mechanism

✓Only pays out when the mechanism it rewards actually does something

No $TIDE token has launched, no Tide Pool contract is deployed, and nothing on this page is an offer to sell or a solicitation to buy any token or security. This describes a specified mechanism pending mainnet, wired to features (Session Guard, Sounding Line) that are themselves pre-mainnet. See Docs for full status.