> For the complete documentation index, see [llms.txt](https://docs.silverswap.io/spiritswap-v3/llms.txt). Markdown versions of documentation pages are available by appending `.md` to page URLs; this page is available as [Markdown](https://docs.silverswap.io/spiritswap-v3/v2-core-features/yield-farms.md). # Yield Farms SpiritSwap itself is simply a blockchain protocol which by design, does not offer any resources for utilization. As such, in order to provide users easy access to $SPIRIT and for the protocol to perform its core function as a DEX, users would need to be incentivized to play the role of liquidity providers and stake their digital asset pairs (e.g. FTM/SPIRIT) into the decentralized market making pools to provide the necessary liquidity for transactions. \ \ As compensation for opportunity costs, these liquidity providers which help to promote adoption of SpiritSwap by staking or including assets to selected liquidity pools (i.e. gauges) in exchange for SPIRIT-LP tokens would be rewarded with $SPIRIT (i.e. "farming" on SpiritSwap), according to each user's relative contribution after various adjustment and correction parameters. In Figure 1 example of a liquidity provider depositing supported SPIRIT-LP tokens to the gauge contract. ![](/files/KhSebBKOMM3njP64X8af) In the aforementioned example, the gauge contract emits 10 $SPIRIT/block and the new farmer owns 100 out of 400 SPIRIT-LP tokens in the farming contract. Therefore, the liquidity provider will be earning 2.5 $SPIRIT tokens per block. In the manner of true decentralization, the SpiritSwap farms operate on a "[gauge](/spiritswap-v3/v2-core-features/yield-farms/gauges.md) model". This offers inSPIRIT holders the opportunity to decide where weekly farming emissions are delegated from the beginning to end of each epoch.