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$PENDLE Token Rights

Updated May 20, 2026

Overview

Token(s)
PENDLEsPENDLE
Token Type
GovernanceUtility
Utility
Liquidity Incentives, Staking

PENDLE is the native governance and utility token of the Pendle Finance DeFi protocol for trading tokenized future yields. sPENDLE is its liquid staking version obtained by staking PENDLE, granting holders governance power and protocol revenue share.

Governance Rights

Control

sPENDLE is Pendle’s native governance token that includes voting power and revenue share. sPENDLE has a 14-day unstaking cooldown, or instant redemption for a 5% fee

Governance Decisions

sPENDLE

Lock PENDLE for sPENDLE (replacing vePENDLE) which earns voting power

Treasury Decisions

N/A

Revenue Decisions

sPENDLE

Holders vote on revenue allocation

Fee Switch

ON

80% of protocol revenue goes to buybacks with distributions to to sPENDLE holders. 10% of fees goes to the treasury, and 10% to protocol operations.

Resources

Buyback contract
0x9e08C5499f953C6297A7755BcBcEd383b606896b

Primary Value Accrual

Buybacks

Value accrues through buybacks and distribution of bought back tokens to active sPENDLE holders

Equity Statement

All value from Pendle & Boros accrues to PENDLE alone.

Economic Rights

Value Capture

80% of protocol revenue goes to PENDLE buybacks and is distributed amongst active sPENDLE holders

Buybacks

sPENDLE

Protocol fees are harvested every 2 weeks and deposited into the buyback contract. Once funded, the contract executes PENDLE purchases over the subsequent week using a 1-hourly TWAP.

Dividends

sPENDLE

Up to 100% of repurchased PENDLE will be distributed to active sPENDLE holders in the form of sPENDLE. sPENDLE holders must be active to receive rewards during a given epoch

Burns

N/A

No burn mechanism is currently active

Ownership

Raise History

3 rounds · $3.7m total
DateAmountRoundValuation
Nov 09, 2023OTC
Aug 23, 2023
May 04, 2021$3.7mSeed
Fundraising
Equity
Equity Revenue Capture
No
Associated Entities
DAOOtherFoundation