FAQ — Token Holders & Investors

Getting and Holding POKT

Where can I buy POKT? POKT trades on several centralized exchanges (see Exchanges for the current list). For decentralized trading, wPOKT is available on Uniswap, Aerodrome, Jupiter, and other DEXs. See the full How to Buy guide.

What wallet do I use? Soothe Vault is recommended for most holders — it supports both native POKT and wPOKT in one interface. Keplr and Leap work for native POKT as Cosmos ecosystem wallets. See Wallets.

What is wPOKT? An ERC-20/SPL version of POKT bridged to Ethereum, Base, and Solana. You don’t need wPOKT if you plan to hold or stake on Pocket mainnet. It’s useful for DEX trading, DeFi liquidity provision, or holding in an EVM wallet. You can bridge between native POKT and wPOKT.

What is POKT’s address format? Shannon uses Cosmos bech32 format: addresses start with pokt1 followed by lowercase letters and numbers. This is different from Morse-era addresses.

I had POKT in a Morse wallet — did I lose it? No. Shannon stores a complete archive of all Morse balances. You need to claim your Morse account on Shannon by following the migration instructions. If your POKT was on an exchange or with a noderunner, they handled it on your behalf. See Shannon Upgrade.

Tokenomics and Supply

Is POKT inflationary or deflationary? Deflationary since PIP-41 (February 2026). For every relay served, all of the POKT fee is burned but only 97.5% is re-minted. The remaining 2.5% is permanently removed. More relay volume = more deflation. This is automatic — no governance vote needed per burn.

What is the total supply? About 2.06 billion POKT, and declining. There is no fixed maximum supply cap, but under PIP-41, supply contracts with every relay served.

How does burn-and-mint work? Applications burn POKT to pay for relays. The protocol mints 97.5% back and distributes it: 79% to Suppliers, 14% to Validators, 4.5% to the DAO, and 2.5% to service owners. The remaining 2.5% of the original burn is never created. See Tokenomics for the full model.

What is the CUTTM? The Compute Unit to Token Multiplier — the exchange rate converting compute units to POKT. Since relay pricing is pegged to USD (1 billion CUs ≈ $1), the DAO adjusts CUTTM as POKT’s price changes to keep dollar costs stable. A lower POKT price → higher CUTTM → more POKT burned per relay → faster deflation (natural price support).

Staking

Can I earn yield? Yes, by running a Supplier node or delegating stake. Suppliers earn 79% of minted POKT from every relay they serve. There is no fixed APY — earnings are proportional to work served. See Staking.

What are my staking options? Run your own node (59,500 POKT minimum + server infrastructure), delegate to a noderunner (they run infrastructure, you provide stake), or join a staking pool (smaller amounts, pooled model). See Staking for details on each.

How long to unstake? For Suppliers, about 20 days (1,429 sessions). For validator delegations, 21 days. You cannot access staked POKT during the unbonding period.

What’s the minimum stake? 59,500 POKT is the protocol minimum for Suppliers. Applications require 1,000 POKT, and Gateways require 5,000 POKT.

Governance

Can I vote? Yes, through the CREDS governance system. The DAO has two Houses: Builder House (80% weight, one-person-one-vote for verified contributors) and Staker House (20%, stake-weighted). Voting happens on Snapshot. See Governance.

What does the DAO control? All key protocol parameters (relay pricing, mint ratio, reward splits, staking requirements) plus the DAO treasury (funded by 4.5% of all minted POKT).

The Network

What is Shannon? The codename for Pocket Network’s current protocol — a full Cosmos SDK rebuild launched June 2025. It replaced Morse with permissionless gateways, usage-based pricing, burn-and-mint tokenomics, and support for any open data service. Named after Claude Shannon, the founder of information theory.

What chains does Pocket support? Dozens of blockchain networks and L2s. The public RPC list is on Supported Chains, and every registered service is at explorer.pocket.network/services. New chains can be added permissionlessly under Shannon.

Is Pocket just for blockchain data? No. Pocket serves any HTTP data service: data APIs, LLM inference, document tools, MCP servers, and blockchain RPC. Most new services are built for AI agents, which find them and pay per call on the Agentic Portal. To publish your own, see Services.