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The Equinox Lockdrop event will begin on the 21st of October and deposits will run for 5 days. Prepare your ASTRO and xASTRO and read about the details at **Lockdrop Details.**

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Eclipse Equinox is the first governance aggregator built on top of Astroport DEX and is part of the Eclipse Fi ecosystem of products. Equinox serves to boost ASTRO staking rewards, create a flywheel to drive more value and adoption to Astroport DEX and Neutron, improve the affordability of directing ASTRO emissions to pools and supercharge bribe rewards for users.

Equinox will play a pivotal role at the heart of the Neutron ecosystem, locking large amounts of ASTRO voting power to create a liquidity flywheel and to attract new token listings on Astroport DEX and Neutron through Eclipse Fi launchpad.

The effects of this flywheel aim to increase the value and demand for the ASTRO token and bolster volume, users and liquidity on Astroport DEX and the Neutron ecosystem.

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Boosts ASTRO staking rewards.

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Supercharges token launches liquidity on Astroport DEX

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Makes voting power for emissions more affordable.

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Optimises the earning of bribe incentives

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Equinox Links and Details

The Lockdrop Bootstrapping Event

Equinox will be bootstrapped through a lockdrop launch event, beginning on the 21st of October.

The lockdrop will run for 11 days and present an opportunity for users to participate early and share from an additional pool of rewards distributed upfront for participating in the lockdrop event.

Users will have the opportunity to pledge their ASTRO or xASTRO into one of two vaults in return for a pro-rata share of pool of incentives.

Learn more about the lockdrop event

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Key Dates

• 11 day Lockdrop event (9 day deposit phase, 2 day withdraw-only phase)
• Lockdrop Opens on 21st October 10am UTC
• Withdraw-only phase starts on 30th October 10am UTC
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The Astro Wars are making their return

Equinox is built on top of Astroport DEX in return for the Astro Wars, this was a highly competitive battle for control of liquidity incentives at the high of the Terra ecosystem, modelled around Curve Finance’s own “Curve Wars”

These Astro Wars were a battle over control and influence of Astroports’ liquidity emission centered around their Vote Escrow token model: vxASTRO, which never had a chance to see the light of day due to the Terra collapse. Now it’s making a comeback and finally ready to be released with some adaptations to the model. Projects, DAOs and Chains alike have their signs on competing once again for who controls the most voting power and is able to send incentives to their preferred pools.

Here are some of the known current participants, with more likely to join to fight:

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Neutron Chain Neutron Chain has accumulated 55 million ASTRO thanks to an early mutual grant with Astroport DEX.

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Terra Alliance + Lion Dao Terra Alliance and Lion DAO have signalled their participation in the Astro Wars and have been accumulating ASTRO.

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Apollo DAO Apollo was one of the leaders in the original Astro Wars and accumulated a reserve of ASTRO tokens to send voting power to some of the vaults.

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Eclipse Equinox Eclipse Fi is participating in the Astro Wars through Equinox, planning to lock large amounts of ASTRO through the governance Aggregator Mechanism.

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Nucleus Council of Scientists The NCOS is a community, DAO and NFT collection of DeFi and Astro enthusiasts. They used proceed of the NFT collection to purchase ASTRO and back each NFT with tokens.

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Thanks to Equinox, Eclipse is planning to cement itself as the leader in this battle, to position and act as a king-maker across the ecosystem.