dfPOINTS & Referrals
1,000,000 dfPOINTS distributed every week. Four ways to earn them.
dfPOINTS & Referrals
1,000,000 dfPOINTS distributed every week. Four ways to earn them.
dfPOINTS are now live on Domination Finance. Every week, 1M dfPOINTS are distributed across four pools: liquidity providers, traders, referrers, and referees. Allocations are configured each epoch, so the protocol can adapt incentives in real time based on what the platform needs most.
Here’s exactly how each mechanism works and how you can start earning.
The Four Pools
LP Pool: Earn by Providing Liquidity
Deposit USDC into the dfUSDC vault and you automatically earn from the LP pool. No staking interface, no extra step. Holding dfUSDC is all it takes.
How your share is calculated:
Your reward is based on your time-weighted average dfUSDC balance over the epoch. If you hold 10,000 dfUSDC for the full week, your time-weighted balance is 10,000. If you deposit 10,000 on Thursday of that week, it’s roughly 5,700 (4 out of 7 days). Your points for the epoch are your share of the platform’s total time-weighted balance multiplied by the LP pool size, so depositing earlier in the epoch earns more than late-week deposits.
Both liquid dfUSDC in your wallet and locked positions (dfNFTs) count toward your balance. Locked positions include the on-chain lock bonus: locking 10,000 dfUSDC with a 5% bonus gives you an effective balance of 10,500 shares for the entire lock period, earning proportionally more points with no extra action.
Your LP points = (your time-weighted balance / total platform time-weighted balance) x LP pool size
Trader Pool: Earn by Trading
Every position you open or close on Domination Finance earns you a share of the trader pool.
How your share is calculated:
Your reward is based on your notional trading volume during the epoch. Notional volume is your position size in dollar terms (collateral multiplied by leverage).
- Opening a position: volume = collateral x leverage
- Closing a position (full or partial): volume = the notional size of the portion closed
- Liquidations count as a full close
Some pairs may carry a pair boost during certain epochs. For example, a 2x boost on BNBDOM means every dollar of volume on that pair counts double. Pair boosts are published before each epoch starts and locked for the duration of the week.
Your trader points = (your effective volume / total platform effective volume) x Trader pool size
Referrer Pool: Earn by Sharing Your Code
Register a referral code on-chain and share it. When someone uses your code and starts trading or providing liquidity, their activity earns you points from the referrer pool.
How it works:
- Register a code. Pick any name you want. This is recorded on-chain and permanently linked to your wallet.
- Share your link. Anyone who visits and connects a wallet will be prompted to bind your code.
- Earn from their activity. Your referrer score is based on the total LP + trader points earned by everyone you referred. The more active your referrals, the larger your share of the referrer pool.
Your referrer points = (total points earned by your referrals / total points earned by all referred users) x Referrer pool size
Referee Pool: Earn a Bonus for Using a Code
If you join DomFi through someone’s referral code, you earn bonus points from the referee pool on top of everything you already earn from the LP and trader pools.
How it works:
- Visit a referral link or enter a code in the app.
- Bind the code to your wallet before you trade or deposit. This is a one-time, permanent on-chain binding. Once set, your referrer relationship is immutable; no affiliate hopping.
- Then trade or LP. Only LP and trader points from activity after binding qualify for the referee pool. Existing balances or past trades don’t count retroactively.
The referee pool is self-balancing: the fewer referred users active in a given week, the larger the bonus per person. Early adopters who use a code benefit the most.
Your referee points = (your LP + trader points / total LP + trader points from all referred users) x Referee pool size
Stacking Rewards
These pools are independent. A single user can earn from multiple pools simultaneously:
- LP who trades: earns from LP pool + trader pool
- LP who trades and was referred: earns from LP pool + trader pool + referee pool
- Referrer who also LPs and trades: earns from LP pool + trader pool + referrer pool
There’s no cap on how many pools you can earn from. The more surfaces you’re active on, the more dfPOINTS you accumulate.
What You Should Do Right Now
1. Deposit into the vault. Every second your dfUSDC balance is above zero, you’re earning from the LP pool. Lock your deposits for a share bonus that compounds your point earnings automatically.
2. Trade dominance. Open positions on any of our 5 pairs (BTCDOM, ETHDOM, USDTDOM, BNBDOM, SOLDOM) with up to 250x leverage. Watch for pair boosts each epoch.
3. Register a referral code. It takes one transaction. Share it everywhere: Discord, Twitter, group chats. Every user who binds your code becomes a permanent source of referrer pool earnings for you.
4. Use a referral code if you haven’t yet. Bind a code before your next trade or deposit — referee points only count activity that happens after the code is linked. Existing LP balances or past trades don’t qualify retroactively.
Epochs & Claims
dfPOINTS run on weekly epochs: Monday 00:00 UTC to Monday 00:00 UTC. At the end of each epoch, a Merkle root is published on-chain containing every participant’s cumulative all-time point total.
You claim by calling a single transaction on Base. The contract mints the difference between your cumulative total and what you’ve already claimed, so you can skip weeks and claim everything later in one tx. No points expire. No deadlines.
dfPOINTS is a transferable ERC-20 on Base. Once claimed, your balance is visible on-chain and in your wallet.
Key Details
- Weekly emission: 1,000,000 dfPOINTS
- Epoch: Monday 00:00 UTC to Monday 00:00 UTC
- Pool allocations: Configured per epoch; follow @dominationfi for weekly updates
- Pair boosts: Published before each epoch, locked once it starts
- Claiming: On-chain Merkle claim on Base. Claim anytime, skip weeks, no points lost.
- Token: Transferable ERC-20 on Base
- Referral binding: One-time, permanent, on-chain.
The Dominance Standard.