# Season Rewards

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## TL;DR <a href="#overview" id="overview"></a>

* The latest Season for ether.fi stakers has already begun! This current season will run from September 15, 2024 until January 31, 2025
* Season rewards may consist of a variety of reward tokens, including:
  * ETHFI token rewards
  * Partner token rewards
  * LRT² governance token rewards
* At least 2,000,000 ETHFI tokens will be allocated to this new season
* Stay tuned for campaigns to be announced throughout the season

## Overview <a href="#key-benefits" id="key-benefits"></a>

1. **DeFi boosts:** Loyalty points boosts will continue to be granted to stakers for participating across ether.fi's ecosystem of DeFi partners, refer to the Portfolio page for up to date boosts
2. **Community badges will also reward you for participating in more ways with ether.fi**: [Go and check them out in your Portfolio tab](https://app.ether.fi/portfolio).
3. **Loyalty points** will continue to accrue at the same rate as they did in previous seasons.
4. **All eETH and weETH**, whether held or in DeFi positions, including Liquid, will be treated the same for current season loyalty points
5. **Refer-a-fren:** Get 10,000 points per 0.1 ETH staked. Refer friends across L2 networks as well!

## **Conditions**

* Participants may be ineligible for the following reasons:&#x20;
  * Users with less than 150,000 loyalty points
  * Users with no active eETH/weETH balance in their wallet or no active weETH balance in partner protocols at date of snapshot
  * Users who exited within 5 days of the end of the current season (excluding Pendle maturity)&#x20;
  * Users with wallets that are part of a known sanctioned list&#x20;
  * Users who have actively been caught as sybils or attempting to manipulate the protocol or events to game the system
  * Users who are linked to on-chain scams such as pinkdrainer&#x20;
  * Users who were part of the Early Adopters Program (EAP), but still did not transition out of the EAP
  * Users who got nearly all of their points from badges, as opposed to staking
  * **Any attempt to exploit loopholes or manipulate the rules to game the system will result in disqualification of any Season rewards, all your points on all accounts will be removed.**

## **FAQ**

* Do loyalty points still play a part in Season Rewards?
  * Yes! Your loyalty points will continue to be one of the core ways your protocol activity will be measured, just like they were in previous seasons
* Do I still get boosts on my loyalty points?
  * Yes! See our DeFi partners list for specific loyalty points boosts <https://app.ether.fi/defi>&#x20;
* If users only stake on Ether.fan, are they still eligible for Season 4?
  * Yes, as long as they do so through Season 4
* I’m in a few DeFi protocols that aren’t currently being tracked, are the points for those going to be granted retroactively?
  * Yes, so long as they are on the Portfolio page in "Retro"&#x20;

Season rules and conditions are subject to change.&#x20;