Beethovenx Reliquary ties maBEETS rewards and voting power to position maturity

Beethovenx Reliquary uses maturity to determine reward and voting levels for each maBEETS position. Keeping a position allows its maturity to grow; activating a higher level requires a manual level-up. A full exit forfeits the accumulated maturity. The project adopted Beets branding during its transition to Sonic, where maBEETS uses a BEETS/stS liquidity-pool stake. The choice is whether to maintain that position's age or release its stake, while accounting for the underlying assets.

A full exit gives up accumulated maturity

Closing a maBEETS position forfeits its accumulated maturity. The design allows an exit without a compulsory maturity lock. That flexibility matters when access to the stake becomes more useful than retaining an established reward level. Returning later creates a new position whose benefits follow its own maturity; the age of a position you closed doesn't remain available for reuse.

Traditional vote-escrow models tie voting power to a lock's duration, while Reliquary's maBEETS design rewards the time a position remains held and allows the holder to decide when to exit the position.

The maturity cost belongs to the maBEETS position. Redeeming pool assets or unstaking underlying stS follows the rules of those separate contracts.

Weekly maturity and the active level measure different states

Elapsed holding time establishes maturity, while a manual level-up activates the next eligible reward and voting level. maBEETS maturity progresses weekly. The Sonic maBEETS design described in March 2025 reaches maximum maturity at week 11. That limit describes the maturity schedule, not an annual yield or a promised token payout. Continued holding beyond the ceiling doesn't establish an additional maturity tier under that design.

Read the position's recorded maturity alongside its active level when interpreting an apparent mismatch. An older position can qualify for an upgrade it hasn't activated yet. The next eligible level concerns future reward and voting weight; elapsed time alone doesn't demonstrate that the position already uses it. Maximum maturity also says nothing about the market value of its underlying tokens or the amount a future budget will distribute.

The NFT receipt connects maturity with a specific liquidity stake

Sonic maBEETS uses a weighted pool token backed by an 80% BEETS and 20% stS allocation. These weights describe shares of pool value, not the number of token units deposited. That stake retains exposure to both assets as it matures. BEETS supplies most of the target exposure, while stS carries the underlying Sonic staking exposure. A higher maturity level changes the position's reward and governance benefits; it doesn't turn that liquidity stake into a fixed-value holding.

The financial NFT records position size, maturity, voting power and reward distribution. Those details identify the stake whose age matters, so an NFT count alone doesn't describe a wallet's governance influence. A mature receipt for a smaller stake and a less mature receipt for a larger stake don't establish a ranking from age alone.

Weighted-pool exposure can lose value even while maturity increases.

Reward funding qualifies the benefit of a higher level

A higher maturity level changes reward and voting weight within the maBEETS system. The available funding and the position's recorded size still affect its economic value. A maturity tier isn't a fixed interest rate. Reward weight describes entitlement within the system; it can't establish how much BEETS a position will receive in every future period.

The Beets DAO approves the quarterly BEETS emissions budget. The Music Director Committee proposes the budget and manages emissions within its approved mandate, while changes beyond that mandate require a community vote before the committee can apply them to the distribution of BEETS. Budget decisions also set protocol-revenue allocations. These rules separate the position's maturity from the funds available to reward participation, and a past quarter's allocation doesn't establish the allocation for another quarter.

maBEETS voting power also helps direct farm emissions through weighted gauge votes. The vote determines which eligible liquidity pools receive incentives. Those farm allocations concern the selected pools, while the maBEETS position carries its own reward entitlement.

Fantom and Sonic maBEETS use different underlying assets

The transition to Sonic changed maBEETS' underlying asset mix while retaining the maturity-adjusted governance concept. Fantom maBEETS used an 80/20 BEETS/wFTM pool. Sonic maBEETS uses BEETS/stS, so the second asset adds liquid-staking exposure rather than the wrapped FTM exposure of the older arrangement. Reliquary extends the MasterChef reward-distribution approach with position maturity, but the name alone doesn't identify the assets in a particular deployment.

The Fantom-to-Sonic migration involved withdrawing the old position's assets and constructing the Sonic position after the required asset conversions. A token bridge moves assets; it doesn't by itself recreate the old position's recorded maturity. For an older holding, decide whether to replace BEETS/wFTM exposure with BEETS/stS and rebuild maturity in a new Sonic position.

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