Earn on Idle Assets

You can earn yield on idle assets directly in the Nolus Web App. Click Earn in the navigation bar at the top of the app; on a phone or a narrow window, open the menu at the top left first. From there you can deposit and withdraw assets, stake NLS, and track how everything is performing. The page itself is readable before you connect anything, and the Deposit and Withdraw buttons stay where they are and open the Select Wallet picker when you click them.

Use Solflare or Phantom. With no wallet connected, the app shows the Solana pools.

Earn currently lists cbBTC on Solana, SOL on Solana, USDC on Solana and wETH on Solana. Each pool supplies liquidity to the matching Nolus protocol. Rates move with borrowing demand: at the last update the cbBTC pool on Solana paid 4.0%, the SOL pool on Solana paid 11.9%, the USDC pool on Solana paid 10.5% and the wETH pool on Solana paid 3.5%, but the live figure shown next to each pool is the one that counts. The same rates are listed on the home page before you ever open Earn, in the Yield section of the Earnings widget, with NLS and the staking rate at the top of that list.

With a wallet connected, the top of the Earn page shows three figures; before you connect they are not shown at all. Every one of them is your own, never a protocol-wide total, and each reads a dash rather than $0.00 while the app cannot yet work it out for your account. These values refresh as your assets accrue rewards.

The total value of what you have working in Earn, shown in USD. It counts your pool deposits and your staked NLS together.

The total yield accumulated to date, based on realized earnings. This one is pool earnings only; staking rewards are tracked separately in NLS Rewards.

Your unclaimed staking rewards, with a Claim button under the figure. It is an amount of NLS rather than a dollar value.

The table lists one row per pool, and an NLS row that always comes first. On a computer or tablet, each row shows the Asset, what you have deposited in it under My Deposit, its Yield, and its Total Deposits, the amount all users have deposited, in USD. My Deposit is shown only with a wallet connected. On a phone or a narrow window the table shows Asset and My Deposit (Total Deposits without a wallet), with the yield under the ticker. A dash in a figure means it has not been read yet, never that it is zero, and a pool whose rate is unknown shows a dash for its Yield. The table has no search box and does not say whether a pool takes new deposits; see Important below.

The NLS row is your stake rather than a deposit: My Deposit is the amount you have staked, Yield is the chain's own staking rate, and Total Deposits is all the NLS staked on the chain, in USD. When part of your stake has stopped earning, a strip reading Part of your stake has stopped earning appears above the table with a Fix button. Staking is covered in Stake and Unstake NLS.

Depositing draws on your Nolus account balance, so make sure the asset is there first. In a Solana session you top up with Fund, which moves the asset from your Solana wallet to your Nolus account.

To start earning, click Deposit at the top of the assets table. In the pop-up that opens:

The list holds NLS and the pools, ordered by how much of each you hold in dollars, largest first, with any pool that cannot take a deposit greyed out at the bottom. The dialog opens on the top entry, so pick the pool you actually want. Once you type an amount, the Preview section reads You deposit followed by the amount and its dollar value, and a Rewards Projection chart shows the projected amount based on accumulated rewards over the next seven years at the current yield.

Once the details look right, click Deposit and confirm the transaction in your wallet. The app confirms with Asset Deposited Successfully, and the amount then shows in the My Deposit column. If you first opened the app through someone's referral link, this transaction carries a memo reading ref:NLS- followed by the code, which your wallet shows in the signing prompt; it is expected and changes nothing about the transaction itself.

The balance line above the amount field shows the amount on its own, without the ticker. Clicking it fills in your holding. On a deposit it keeps the network fee back, so the figure it fills can sit slightly under the balance shown on that line.

A link straight to app.nolus.io/earn/supply opens the dialog without a wallet too, with the pools listed and the amount field live; the submit brings up the Select Wallet picker rather than throwing away what you typed.

Rewards in the pool are auto-compounded, so a withdrawal returns your original amount and the accumulated rewards in a single transaction.

To withdraw, go to the Earn section and click Withdraw. In the window that opens:

Check the details, click Withdraw, and confirm the transaction in your wallet. The funds land in your Nolus account as soon as the transaction finalizes. To get them into your Solana wallet, open the Account popover from the wallet button in the top bar, click Withdraw, and pick the asset there.

You can link straight there: app.nolus.io/earn/withdraw opens the dialog on its Withdraw tab, and adding ?asset= with a ticker to that address seats the row for you. With no wallet attached the tab shows the line connect wallet to continue above a Connect button instead of the form, and connecting swaps the form in where you stand.

New deposits into a pool can be paused automatically when its utilization drops below the minimum set for that pool. The Earn table does not mark such a pool; with a wallet connected, the Deposit dialog's asset picker greys it out and adds the line New deposits are suspended until borrowing demand picks up under that pool's row. That minimum is a per-pool parameter which governance can change, so check the pool itself rather than assuming a fixed number.

To check current pool utilization and each pool's deposit cap, visit the protocol stats page: the Utilization column of the Funds Utilization card marks each pool's cap with a line on its meter. For more on pauses and withdrawal timing, see Earn Deposit Caps and Withdrawal Timing.