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title: "Overyield"
description: "Overyield explains how separating settlement from staking concentrates real yield among fewer stakers, without leverage, hedging or off-chain execution."
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# Overyield

> Overyield explains how separating settlement from staking concentrates real yield among fewer stakers, without leverage, hedging or off-chain execution.

**Overyield** is how Overlayer can offer a higher effective yield to stakers without relying on structurally riskier systems.

The reason is simple: Overlayer **separates settlement from yield participation**. The base Overlaid Asset remains fully usable as a settlement primitive, while **only the portion of supply that is actively staked participates in yield accrual**. This means the protocol does not need every holder to behave in the same way. Some users can keep the base asset liquid and composable, while others choose the staked form and receive a larger share of the realized yield.

This is what creates the overyield effect. When a **smaller fraction** of total overlaid supply is staked, the same underlying yield is **distributed across fewer staking participants**, increasing the effective return per staked unit.

The protocol is not creating extra yield, using systems such as delta-neutral hedging, leverage loops, off-chain execution, or human-in-the-loop capital management. It is **redistributing real yield** more efficiently across a smaller active staking base.

Overlayer does not break the logic of risk and return by manufacturing yield through additional structural complexity. It improves the effective yield available to stakers by changing how yield is distributed, while keeping the system **fully backed, non-levered, and on-chain**.

#### No lockups, fully on-chain

Because the entire yield layer is implemented on-chain through **share-based accounting**, Overlayer does not need lockups, waiting periods, delayed exits, or opaque operational constraints to make the model work. Users can move between the base and staked form through protocol-native actions governed by **deterministic rules**.

As a result, overyield is **not achieved by restricting users**. It is achieved by structuring the protocol so that settlement utility and yield participation no longer need to sit inside the same balance behavior. That is what allows Overlayer to improve capital efficiency while keeping the system simpler, more legible, and less structurally fragile than many alternative stable-yield designs.