# Earnings & Rewards

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Every reward in weRate is earned through **real actions**, validated by **presence**, and amplified by **skill, consistency, and trust**.
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### 🎯 What You Can Earn

weRate currently features three primary reward types:

* **XP (Experience Points) :** Used to level up your active Terry and unlock long-term progression.
* **LP (Leaderboard Points) :**Used to rank users against one another and distribute competitive rewards.
* **Rate :** Our utility unit earned or granted through activity on the weRate platform. It can be used to access or redeem platform rewards and benefits.

Each reward serves a **different purpose** and follows **different calculation rules**.

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In the future, weRate, will also introduce a tradable token. Project name Stardust (aka $Rate)
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### 🧠 Core Design Principles

The reward system is built around a few key principles:

* **Presence-first**\
  Rewards are tied to real visits, real actions, and real people.
* **Quality over spam**\
  Writing a meaningful review is more valuable than repeating low-effort actions.
* **Skill-based amplification**\
  Progression comes from how you allocate your Terry’s skill points and how you play over time.
* **Transparent mechanics**\
  All reward formulas are deterministic or clearly probabilistic and visible to users.

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### 🔁 How Rewards Are Earned

Rewards are earned through actions such as:

* Completing weekly quests
* Writing reviews
* Participating in leaderboards
* Completing achievements
* Special events or campaigns

Each action starts from a **base reward**, which is then modified by your Terry’s multipliers and skills.

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### 🧩 Active Terry Rule

At any given moment, **only one Terry is active**.

* XP progression applies only to the active Terry's "[ambition](https://whitepaper.werate.io/using-the-werate-app/terries/skills-points/ambition)" skill
* LP calculations are based on the active Terry's "[focus](https://whitepaper.werate.io/using-the-werate-app/terries/skills-points/focus)" and "[luck](https://whitepaper.werate.io/using-the-werate-app/terries/skills-points/luck)" skills
* RATE rewards are influenced by the active Terry’s "[influence](https://whitepaper.werate.io/using-the-werate-app/terries/skills-points/influence)" skills

Owning multiple Terries offers strategic flexibility, but rewards are always calculated from the Terry that is active in your backpack.

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### 📈 Multipliers, Not Flat Rewards

Rewards are not fixed numbers.

Instead, they are calculated as:

* **Base reward**
* Modified by **rarity**
* Modified by **level-based multipliers**
* Modified by **skill bonuses** (Ambition, Focus, Luck, Influence)

This creates a system where:

* Early decisions matter
* Progress compounds over time
* Long-term contributors are meaningfully rewarded

Detailed formulas are covered in the dedicated XP, LP, and RATE pages.

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### 🧭 What Comes Next

This page gives you the big picture.

The following pages will go deeper into:

* How XP works and how leveling is calculated
* How LP powers rankings and prize pools
* How RATE are earned, boosted, and redeemed

Together, these systems form a transparent, fair, and sustainable reward economy built on real-world trust.