From Gems to AI Powered Strategies: Epoch 9 Is Live with 946,282 $VELVET in Rewards
Trade, climb the ranks, and accumulate veVELVET as Velvet moves toward AI driven portfolio automation.
Epoch 9 Is Live (March 10 to April 10)
Epoch 9 of the Velvet Gems Campaign is officially underway.
From March 10 through April 10, users will compete for 946,282 $VELVET, distributed at the end of the epoch.
With the major updates to the Gems system already introduced in previous epochs, Epoch 9 continues with the same mechanics, allowing users to compete under a stable and well understood rewards structure.
If you have been actively mining Gems, this is your opportunity to continue climbing the ranks and securing a larger share of the monthly reward pool.
Ranked Gems Rewards
Rewards continue to follow the rank based Gems distribution system.
Instead of spreading rewards evenly across all participants, $VELVET is distributed based on your Gems rank relative to other users.
Rank 1 receives 5% of the total Gems allocation
Top 10 receive the largest fixed allocations
Ranks beyond the top tier follow a sliding scale distribution
Remaining active users still receive a portion of the pool
The higher your rank, the larger your share of the monthly $VELVET rewards.
Why Ranked Rewards Matter
The ranked model ensures that rewards flow toward the users who contribute the most to the Velvet ecosystem.
This system encourages:
Higher trading activity
Greater ecosystem participation
Long term commitment to the protocol
Users who consistently bring value to Velvet are rewarded accordingly.
Gems Are Based on Fees Paid
Gems generation continues to be based on fees paid through trading activity, rather than TVL.
This model ensures rewards reflect real economic contribution to the protocol.
By tying Gems to fees:
Trading activity directly translates into rewards
The system becomes harder to manipulate
Rewards align with protocol revenue and growth
This approach keeps the incentive system fair, transparent, and sustainable as Velvet continues expanding its trading infrastructure.
Core Ways to Compete
Your rank is determined by the same core actions:
Trade on Velvet and generate fees
Stake $VELVET into veVELVET to strengthen alignment with the ecosystem
Invite active users and earn from their activity
Maintain your daily Gem streak by claiming every day
Remember:
Gems must be claimed daily.
Unclaimed Gems expire and do not count toward rankings.
Want Another Reason to Accumulate $VELVET Through Gems?
Velvet is preparing to launch one of the most powerful features in our roadmap: Prompt-to-Strategy.
This system will allow you to use Velvet AI Agents to run fully automated portfolio strategies across DeFi.
Instead of manually managing positions, you will be able to describe a strategy and let agents execute it onchain.
Examples include:
Memecoin trading strategies
Yield farming strategies
Momentum based trading strategies
Arbitrage strategies
Market neutral strategies
To run these strategies, users will need strategy credits, which can be acquired in two ways:
Holding veVELVET, which provides monthly credits
Pay as you go when running strategies
This means the more $VELVET you accumulate and stake into veVELVET, the more strategies you can run.
So while you’re mining Gems each month, you’re not just earning rewards. You’re also building the fuel needed to run autonomous DeFi strategies on Velvet.
Key Dates
Activity window: March 10 to April 10, 2026
Distribution: April 10, 2026
Total rewards: 946,282 $VELVET
Keep Climbing
Epoch 9 continues the competitive environment introduced in recent updates. With mechanics unchanged, the focus remains simple:
Trade, stay consistent, and climb the ranks.
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