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# HIVE: Daily Participation & HONEY Generation

Hive is the core participation mechanism where users contribute PLS tokens daily to earn HONEY rewards.

Key Mechanics:

1\. Daily Cycle

     ○ Hive operates on a 24-hour cycle.

     ○ Each cycle resets automatically every day.

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2\. User Participation

     ○ Users participate by depositing PLS and selecting the number of Flowers and

Bees, which determine their allocation share.

     ○ Participation is open to all, encouraging daily engagement and decentralised contribution.

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3\. Reward Claiming

     ○ At the end of each cycle, users can claim their HONEY tokens based on their

share of contributions.

4\. Post-Claim Options

     ○ Claimed HONEY can be:

          ■ Sold or traded on Decentralised Exchanges (DEX), or

          ■ Staked in the BeeKeeper contract to earn longer-term protocol rewards.

5\. PLS Distribution to Ecosystem Contracts

     ○ All PLS deposited in Hive is allocated to various contracts.

     ○ Distribution must be manually triggered via a public function on the Nectar

Burn page.

     ○ The caller is rewarded with a portion of the ecosystem's reward pool,

incentivising community participation.