# How Does Auto-Staking Work?

The QAP Auto-Stake feature is a straightforward yet cutting-edge **Buy-Hold-Earn** function that provides the ultimate in convenience for $QUANT holders.

Buy-Hold-Earn - By simply purchasing and holding $QUANT in your wallet, you can earn rebase rewards in the form of interest payments. <mark style="color:orange;">**Every 15 minutes**</mark>, your tokens will increase.

Quanterra's Positive Rebase formula enables token distribution to be directly proportional to the epoch rebase rewards, which are worth 0.02355 percent of the total amount of $QUANT in your wallet every 15 minute epoch period. The rebase rewards are distributed to all $QUANT holders on each EPOCH (15 minute rebase period).

![Quanterra Autostaking Protocol](/files/f7kmxEYKdYysOGjvkahp)

**This means that $QUANT holders will earn an annual compound interest rate of&#x20;**<mark style="color:orange;">**383,025.80 percent**</mark>**&#x20;in Year 1 without removing their tokens from their wallet**.

**After the first 12 months, the interest rebase rate decreases**:


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