Switch to an Auto-compounder. Your gas costs are eating too much yield at this deposit size.
Projected balance over 365 days
Bots reinvest multiple times per hour, maximizing the power of compound interest.
High gas chains make auto-compounding mandatory. Low gas chains allow for manual cycles.
We simulate daily growth over 365 days. For manual, we subtract gas at each selected interval. For auto, we apply a continuous compounding rate minus the performance fee.
A 40% APR compounded daily becomes 49.1% APY. Auto-compounders capture this extra 9% yield automatically by reinvesting rewards multiple times per day.
In manual staking, you pay the full gas price for every 'claim' and 'deposit'. On expensive chains like Ethereum, these fees can easily exceed your daily rewards if your deposit is small.
Aggregators perform one massive transaction for all users, spreading the gas cost across the entire pool. This makes compounding viable even for $100 deposits.
Auto-compounders charge a percentage of your PROFITS (usually 2-5%). You must calculate if this fee is cheaper than the gas you would pay to compound manually.
