# Liquidity Mining Liquidity mining is a dynamic mechanism designed to incentivize users to contribute liquidity to the protocol's ecosystem by lending and borrowing assets on our platform. By providing liquidity, users facilitate lending & borrowing activities and enhance the overall efficiency of the platform. In return for their participation, liquidity providers are rewarded with tokens, typically proportional to the amount of liquidity they contribute and the duration of their participation. These rewards serve as an incentive for users to allocate their assets to the protocol, thereby deepening the liquidity pools and fostering a vibrant lending & borrowing environment. Liquidity mining plays a pivotal role in bootstraping liquidity, jumpstarting ecosystem growth, and encouraging active engagement within the community. In our liquidity mining program, rewards are vested over a period of two months to ensure a fair and sustainable incentive structure. This vesting period encourages long-term commitment and discourages short-term speculative behavior, fostering a more stable and robust ecosystem. Participants have the option to exit the program early, but doing so incurs a 50% penalty fee. These penalty fees are then redistributed to Eris lockers, further incentivizing commitment to the protocol and rewarding those who choose to stay engaged. This mechanism not only aligns incentives but also promotes a healthy balance between short-term gains and long-term sustainability, ultimately benefiting the entire community. --- # Agent Instructions: Querying This Documentation If you need additional information that is not directly available in this page, you can query the documentation dynamically by asking a question. Perform an HTTP GET request on the current page URL with the `ask` query parameter: ``` GET https://docs.eris-finance.com/protocol-details/liquidity-mining.md?ask= ``` The question should be specific, self-contained, and written in natural language. The response will contain a direct answer to the question and relevant excerpts and sources from the documentation. Use this mechanism when the answer is not explicitly present in the current page, you need clarification or additional context, or you want to retrieve related documentation sections.