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# $OPX Economic Use

$OPX is an important tool for users to customize staking experiences and optimize returns. 

By using $OPX to accelerate the release of staking earnings or increase annualized staking yields, users can customize investment strategies based on personal needs and goals

**Staking Enhancement:** 

Users can use $OPX tokens to enhance their staking experience and optimize their returns. By using $OPX tokens, users can accelerate the release speed of their staking earnings or increase the annualized staking yields

Using 10% of the staking amount in $OPX can increase returns to a medium level, while using 20% of the staking amount in $OPX can increase returns to the highest return rate. 

**Invitation Rewards:** 

$OPX tokens are allocated as invitation rewards to users who contribute to the growth of the OpenX protocol and community. Users who invite others to stake $OPEN tokens can receive $OPX tokens consumed by the invitee, increasing their staking rewards

**Mining from Contract Trading Referrals:** 

A portion of the mined $OPX tokens is allocated to users who refer others to participate in contract trading on the OpenX protocol. The exact mining output for contract trading referrals is determined by the DAO voting mechanism