Buying and Staking Guide for Olympus

This is a how to guide for buying and staking $OHM in the Olympus protocol to earn passive income. Olympus DAO is one of the most popular DeFi projects off all-time and runs on the Ethereum network. Olympus aims to become the world’s first, decentralized reserve currency backed by a treasury owned liquidity.

Learn more about staking crypto here.

What is Olympus DAO?

Olympus is building a community-owned decentralized financial infrastructure to bring more stability and transparency for the world.

https://www.olympusdao.finance/

Olympus is a decentralized reserve currency protocol based on the OHM token. Each OHM token is backed by a basket of assets (e.g. DAI, FRAX) in the Olympus treasury, giving it an intrinsic value that it cannot fall below. Olympus also introduces unique economic and game-theoretic dynamics into the market through staking and bonding. Read more about the game theory aspect of Olympus in one of our blog posts.

https://docs.olympusdao.finance/main/

Quick rundown on how Olympus works:

• Bonds & LP fees – Olympus has a Treasury owned that earns revenue through bonds and LP fees. These assets lock in liquidity and help control $OHM supply.
• Treasury Growth – As the Olympus Treasury grows, the inflow of revenue increases the treasury balance and helps to back the floor price of outstanding $OHM tokens. This helps regulate staking APY interest rate rewards that are distributed to $OHM token holders.
• OHM Tokens – OHM tokens earn interest by means of auto-compounding yields through its treasury backed currency with real-world value.

What you’ll need to follow this guide

• MetaMask wallet
• $ETH token
• $OHM token

Steps for staking $OHM on Olympus

Follow these steps for the traditional method of buying and staking OHM. However, it’s important to note that you can save a significant amount by avoiding ETH gas fees if you follow this guide to investing in Olympus the easy way instead.

1. Create and setup a MetaMask wallet (available as a web browser extension and mobile app).

2. Buy some $ETH from CoinBase or your preferred exchange (Binance and KuCoin are great options too).

3. Send your purchased $ETH to your MetaMask wallet.

4. Swap your $ETH for $OHM through the exchange SushiSwap.

There will be an approval fee to allow SushiSwap to spend the $ETH in your wallet. There will be another fee for the actual swap. These fees will vary depending on the current price of ETH gas.

5. Add the $OHM (V2) contract address to your wallet: 0x64aa3364F17a4D01c6f1751Fd97C2BD3D7e7f1D5

6. Add the $sOHM (V2) contract address to your wallet: 0x04906695D6D12CF5459975d7C3C03356E4Ccd460

You can find the official Olympus contract addresses here.

7. Go to the staking page of the Olympus dApp and connect your wallet. Enter the amount of $OHM you want to stake or click “max” to stake all the $OHM in your wallet. Approve the staking contract to spend the $OHM in your wallet. Then click the button to stake your $OHM.

Note – If this is your first time staking $OHM, you will have to pay a one-time staking approval fee. Any time you stake after that, you will only have to pay the gas fee to cover the staking transaction.

You should now see a balance for your staked $OHM as the receipt token $sOHM on the dashboard and in your wallet.

Congratulations, you have successfully staked $OHM.

Note – OHM recently rolled out the V2 protocol. Any $OHM that is purchased and staked should be the V2 token (not the V1 token). If you are holding $OHM or $sOHM V1, you will need to migrate to $gOHM for V2.

Additional Olympus DAO Resources

• Official Olympus app
• Official Olympus website
• Olympus Documentation
• Olympus Community Discord
• Olympus staking calculator (Youtube walkthrough)

Current Token Prices

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