What locking QU in the QEARN contract pays this epoch, compared with what every past epoch actually closed at. Read directly from the QEARN contract via rpc.qubic.org.
Each epoch's bonus pot is fixed (≈25.1 B QU now) and is shared by everyone who locks during this epoch. Today only 79.0 B QU is locked, so the pot looks huge per coin. Every new lock dilutes it, and most of the locking happens later in the week. For comparison, the previous epoch closed at 4.21%.
Locking early does not secure today's number: the rate is set when the epoch closes (Wednesday 12:00 UTC) and is the same for every lock in the epoch. The comparison with the average becomes meaningful in the last ~48 hours of the epoch.
Enter how much QU you plan to lock in epoch 239. The calculation uses today's rate, and your own lock is included in it: your QU joins the same bonus pot and dilutes it like anyone else's. The reward is paid when you unlock. Unlock before 52 weeks and you receive only part of it, according to the QEARN reward table.
| Unlock in week | Your share of the reward | Reward you receive | You get back in total | Burned / to other lockers |
|---|
The rate is not final. It is today's rate and keeps falling while the epoch runs. It can change sharply even in the last minutes before the epoch closes (Wednesday 12:00 UTC) if someone locks a large amount. Everyone locking in this epoch gets the rate it closes at.
USD values use today's price (1 QU = $0.000000363, from rpc.qubic.org). The reward is paid in QU, and by the time you unlock the QU price will most likely be completely different, up or down.
Reward shares follow the QEARN reward table (wallet.qubic.org → QEARN → Reward Table). Whatever an early unlocker does not receive is partly burned and partly added to the pot of those who stay, so holders who stay the full 52 weeks often receive more than the closing rate (see "APY now" in the table below).
Bars: the rate each epoch closed at (bonus ÷ locked when the lock window ended). This number never changes afterwards. Line: what the same epoch pays today to those still locked. Early unlockers forfeit part of their reward, and it stays with the rest, so this line drifts up over the 52-week lock. Dashed step: the epoch's bonus pot (right axis). It was cut from ~100 B to ~50 B at epoch 176 and to ~25 B at epoch 228.
Hourly snapshots of the live rate, by hours since the epoch started. Over time this shows where a typical epoch is at any point in the week, which is the real answer to "is this a good epoch to lock in?". Recording started on November 11, 2026 (epoch 239), so earlier epochs have no curve.
QU locked in QEARN stays locked for 52 epochs (about a year). Every epoch is a separate pot: whatever is locked during that epoch shares that epoch's bonus.
Unlocking early returns your QU but forfeits part of the reward. Those forfeited rewards stay with the lockers who remain, so the "APY now" column usually ends up above the rate at close.
Your own lock dilutes the pot too. For example, 10 B QU added to an epoch that closes with 600 B locked lowers that epoch's rate by about 1.6 % of its value (4.21% → 4.14%).
Newest first. Amounts in billions of QU.
| Epoch | Locked at close | Bonus pot | APY at close | Still locked | APY now |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 239 (running) | 79.0 | 25.1 | 31.72% | — | — |
| 238 | 599.7 | 25.3 | 4.21% | 598.9 | 4.22% |
| 237 | 458.7 | 25.0 | 5.45% | 438.5 | 5.70% |
| 236 | 908.9 | 25.2 | 2.78% | 771.9 | 3.27% |
| 235 | 702.5 | 25.3 | 3.60% | 464.0 | 5.45% |
| 234 | 493.5 | 25.2 | 5.10% | 396.3 | 6.34% |
| 233 | 753.0 | 24.7 | 3.28% | 654.3 | 3.77% |
| 232 | 561.9 | 25.2 | 4.49% | 299.8 | 8.30% |
| 231 | 435.7 | 25.1 | 5.75% | 299.5 | 7.41% |
| 230 | 511.4 | 24.6 | 4.80% | 289.1 | 8.12% |
| 229 | 560.9 | 24.9 | 4.44% | 308.7 | 7.79% |
| 228 | 618.8 | 25.2 | 4.08% | 280.8 | 6.67% |
| 227 | 844.3 | 50.3 | 5.96% | 751.8 | 6.40% |
| 226 | 738.9 | 49.9 | 6.75% | 559.8 | 8.13% |
| 225 | 865.2 | 56.8 | 6.57% | 736.5 | 7.27% |
| 224 | 911.5 | 50.3 | 5.52% | 746.1 | 6.62% |
| 223 | 913.4 | 50.0 | 5.48% | 598.4 | 7.32% |
| 222 | 929.6 | 49.1 | 5.29% | 742.2 | 6.42% |
| 221 | 1,142.8 | 51.2 | 4.48% | 881.2 | 5.21% |
| 220 | 837.5 | 49.6 | 5.92% | 561.6 | 7.38% |
| 219 | 914.3 | 49.6 | 5.42% | 550.6 | 7.38% |
| 218 | 1,043.4 | 49.8 | 4.78% | 778.5 | 5.97% |
| 217 | 2,205.4 | 50.2 | 2.28% | 651.3 | 5.97% |
| 216 | 933.9 | 50.0 | 5.35% | 445.6 | 8.24% |
| 215 | 892.9 | 49.9 | 5.58% | 622.0 | 7.16% |
| 214 | 871.4 | 50.3 | 5.78% | 539.8 | 7.39% |
| 213 | 1,193.3 | 50.5 | 4.24% | 627.4 | 6.24% |
| 212 | 745.9 | 50.2 | 6.73% | 502.3 | 8.20% |
| 211 | 893.1 | 50.3 | 5.63% | 572.7 | 7.39% |
| 210 | 810.7 | 50.6 | 6.24% | 564.2 | 7.62% |
| 209 | 899.6 | 49.8 | 5.54% | 668.3 | 6.70% |
| 208 | 1,096.3 | 50.0 | 4.56% | 745.8 | 6.00% |
| 207 | 1,034.5 | 50.1 | 4.84% | 740.0 | 5.98% |
| 206 | 1,345.7 | 49.8 | 3.70% | 747.9 | 4.92% |
| 205 | 1,216.6 | 50.0 | 4.11% | 1,004.0 | 4.72% |
| 204 | 956.8 | 50.2 | 5.24% | 739.7 | 6.26% |
| 203 | 1,697.1 | 50.1 | 2.95% | 1,020.5 | 4.56% |
| 202 | 1,052.2 | 50.6 | 4.81% | 457.6 | 9.47% |
| 201 | 1,329.5 | 50.7 | 3.81% | 818.7 | 5.86% |
| 200 | 984.4 | 50.2 | 5.10% | 403.9 | 8.92% |
| 199 | 963.8 | 50.5 | 5.24% | 650.9 | 6.56% |
| 198 | 677.1 | 50.5 | 7.46% | 514.5 | 8.50% |
| 197 | 932.8 | 50.6 | 5.42% | 675.2 | 6.86% |
| 196 | 929.4 | 50.6 | 5.44% | 740.6 | 6.44% |
| 195 | 695.3 | 50.6 | 7.28% | 532.4 | 8.87% |
| 194 | 516.0 | 50.1 | 9.71% | 311.5 | 12.91% |
| 193 | 509.4 | 50.6 | 9.93% | 308.1 | 12.47% |
| 192 | 626.0 | 49.9 | 7.97% | 457.0 | 9.57% |
| 191 | 489.7 | 50.4 | 10.29% | 366.8 | 11.55% |
| 190 | 399.8 | 50.4 | 12.61% | 297.6 | 14.11% |
| 189 | 366.8 | 50.6 | 13.80% | 240.7 | 18.32% |
| 188 | 385.0 | 49.9 | 12.97% | 306.2 | 15.14% |
| 187 | 516.0 | 48.1 | 9.31% | 285.1 | 12.92% |
| 186 | 438.9 | 50.4 | 11.48% | 203.3 | 16.49% |
| 185 | 609.0 | 50.4 | 8.28% | 185.9 | 14.49% |
| 184 | 324.1 | 50.4 | 15.56% | 250.1 | 18.51% |
| 183 | 340.6 | 50.5 | 14.82% | 251.9 | 17.49% |
| 182 | 361.0 | 50.2 | 13.91% | 284.7 | 16.10% |
| 181 | 378.7 | 50.2 | 13.25% | 275.5 | 16.47% |
| 180 | 393.2 | 50.4 | 12.83% | 268.7 | 16.35% |
| 179 | 525.6 | 50.8 | 9.66% | 326.4 | 14.26% |
| 178 | 318.4 | 49.9 | 15.68% | 227.9 | 18.92% |
| 177 | 587.5 | 50.6 | 8.61% | 304.9 | 15.16% |
| 176 | 395.0 | 50.5 | 12.78% | 322.1 | 14.39% |
| 175 | 629.8 | 101.2 | 16.07% | 466.3 | 19.34% |
| 174 | 591.4 | 101.1 | 17.09% | 432.8 | 20.81% |
| 173 | 174.2 | 0.0 | 0.00% (no bonus) | 23.2 | 0.00% |
| 172 | 606.1 | 101.0 | 16.66% | 379.3 | 22.72% |
| 171 | 742.9 | 101.2 | 13.62% | 569.2 | 15.93% |
| 170 | 766.8 | 101.2 | 13.20% | 608.6 | 15.58% |
| 169 | 721.3 | 101.2 | 14.03% | 511.4 | 16.96% |
| 168 | 806.3 | 101.0 | 12.52% | 605.5 | 14.88% |
| 167 | 1,129.0 | 100.8 | 8.93% | 445.7 | 17.02% |
| 166 | 1,259.6 | 99.6 | 7.91% | 288.4 | 16.88% |
| 165 | 1,057.8 | 98.0 | 9.26% | 610.5 | 13.19% |
| 164 | 1,459.6 | 90.4 | 6.19% | 625.1 | 12.02% |
| 163 | 1,080.2 | 101.4 | 9.39% | 341.6 | 17.62% |
| 162 | 2,008.4 | 101.4 | 5.05% | 612.9 | 13.30% |
| 161 | 737.4 | 100.4 | 13.62% | 561.9 | 16.00% |
| 160 | 1,136.2 | 101.1 | 8.89% | 446.8 | 21.19% |
| 159 | 851.1 | 100.9 | 11.86% | 529.0 | 17.28% |
| 158 | 1,021.6 | 101.3 | 9.91% | 598.1 | 13.97% |
| 157 | 1,033.2 | 99.5 | 9.63% | 610.8 | 15.89% |
| 156 | 1,312.2 | 100.3 | 7.64% | 475.0 | 16.21% |
| 155 | 1,513.4 | 100.2 | 6.62% | 723.4 | 13.13% |
| 154 | 1,146.4 | 100.2 | 8.74% | 720.4 | 11.12% |
| 153 | 1,459.9 | 100.0 | 6.85% | 618.4 | 15.08% |
| 152 | 1,911.2 | 100.9 | 5.28% | 632.6 | 14.49% |
| 151 | 2,376.0 | 99.9 | 4.20% | 686.4 | 11.69% |
| 150 | 1,527.2 | 100.3 | 6.57% | 653.9 | 11.08% |
| 149 | 2,190.0 | 100.0 | 4.57% | 736.2 | 9.81% |
| 148 | 2,163.8 | 99.1 | 4.58% | 683.4 | 12.46% |
| 147 | 2,688.5 | 99.4 | 3.70% | 789.6 | 10.93% |
| 146 | 1,395.1 | 100.4 | 7.20% | 739.0 | 9.70% |
| 145 | 3,030.2 | 99.9 | 3.30% | 806.4 | 8.52% |
| 144 | 1,458.4 | 100.7 | 6.90% | 693.5 | 11.83% |
| 143 | 2,063.9 | 100.6 | 4.88% | 642.7 | 14.46% |
| 142 | 1,442.2 | 100.4 | 6.96% | 332.4 | 13.85% |
| 141 | 2,382.5 | 100.5 | 4.22% | 352.3 | 11.18% |
| 140 | 3,253.1 | 100.0 | 3.07% | 1,074.0 | 6.51% |
| 139 | 1,834.8 | 99.8 | 5.44% | 702.8 | 8.93% |
| 138 | 6,924.9 | 100.9 | 1.46% | 1,961.1 | 3.06% |