@aymandre This is true. It is more economical to wait until you have amassed a larger sum of ATH and then do one big deposit. I have also noticed that for reasons unknown to me at least, that sometimes squidrouter is very cheap, other times the router on the website works best.. Sometimes gas fees are minimal, other times they seem outrageous. - A person could also buy a large net sum of ATH to get this started as well, and then just feed it with their Edge as time goes on. - I have less than 10k staked right now, as I have only ever staked what the Edge earned, but the initial 5k or so that I put in was enough to get it going. - Im not sure when their next phase launches or what the thresholds will be, but I would like to be in the earning bracket of 200+ Aethir a day versus this 23 or whatever it is now, and that requires the larger staking.

@UFO Of course; while you wont have the upfront surplus of the Aethir we were getting at 100 a day, you can still stake and build it up over the next 6 months or a year. Its a long term investment when you stake, and your patience pays off when your investment grows to a certain potential.

@neo_belaerixx If you got in today, approximately how long would it take to break even?

@bob_carsyn same question

@bob_carsyn The Edge DID make 100/day and at 0.035 each, it was running around $3.50 a day, upwards of $5.00/day since I purchased mine in January… Todays value is around $0.03/aethir. Unfortunately the current earnings (were going to say just 25/day) put this at only making $0.75/day, and if you do the math (0.75×30 days) your making about $22.50 a month; that puts your ROI at a little over 60 months.

Those statistics do not look good on paper; the ROI for me was under 12 months when I bought it. Now that being said, you can see the trend of Aethir in the past 12 months could put it back up to 0.05-0.08 and that would cut it in half. Additionally, as I mentioned; you could purchase Aethir outright and stake it, so that when the Tokenomics 2.0 takes over, you would increase your daily earnings. At 200 Aethir a day the ROI would be very quick.

I hope that answers your question, as well as @UFO although there are a lot of variables. Directly, if you bought one today, including tax and shipping, and your earnings never changed and the price of Aethir never changed, it would be a 5 year ROI; but thats not accurate considering those things will change, and you will also earn interest on your staking.

@neo_belaerixx This is very helpful, thank you!

@PuNkYsHuNgRy Correct; but you have to have your Aethir transferred over to the Ethereum network; they are mined and paid on the Arbitrum network. So you have to do the following:

1. Transfer your Aethir from Arbitrum to Ethereum network (done with squid, or even can be done on the Aethir site)

2. The tokens will then show up as able to be converted into vATH once they are on the Etherum network.

3. Pick the quantity you want to convert and convert (on Aethir website) - Costs $gas unfortunately (along with the squidrouter transfer; but depending on the time of day and service, its not too bad)

4. Take the newly created vATH and stake them to the Gaming or AI pool.

The whole process takes about 5 minutes once you know what your doing, but there are certainly multiple steps. Most likely you are stuck at the part where your Aethir is still on Arbitrum, so its not showing up on the Aethir website! Let me know if you need more help, Ill take screen shots and post.

@PuNkYsHuNgRy Gaming has the highest ROI - It was aroujnd 120% percent for a 3 year stake (max) - seems to be in the 50’s or so right now. AI pool pays in the teens. I cant explain how or why; but I do know that Ive been paid back over 1000Aethir with about 5000 staked in just a few months; thats not a bad return. Im still in the plus side even with gas fees.

@CoinChaser I “was” making 100 Aethir a day before the recent changes; so in one week I would make 700 Aethir. I was earning over 100 Aethir a week in revenue from my staking; so it was adding atleast an extra days worth of coins. In the future; your Aethir revenue will be dependent on how much you have staked; upwards of 200+ Aethir a day. I stake everything I make, have close to 10k Aethir staked from the miner that I purchased and have had running since January 2025 ish’ and I make several hundred Aethir a month revenue from my staking, which I in turn flip back into being staked again. -

If you want more detail let me know and Ill pull up some specifics. I guess the overarching point that I was trying to make was that once youve staked about 6 months worth of what you made with your Aethir Edge, the revenue from your staking becomes significant. - In the future, the more you stake, the more your daily revenue will be.

@neo_belaerixx With Edge, they announce tokenomics 2.0 in which staking 10,000 ATH would earn more ATH daily rewards. I had my 10,000 ready to stake for that purpose. Should I use them to stake them this other way suggested in this thread?