# esSYM Escrowed SYM (esSYM) is a non-transferrable variant of SYM. esSYM has the same utilities of SYM. Similar to [mint fee pool share](/sym-finance/mechanism/leverage-providers/mint-fee-sharing.md), the balance of esSYM has a **daily decay of 5%**. ### esSYM emission The only way to get esSYM is to become an LP. In the early stage of SYM Finance, for each Token swapped, the LP gets **1 esSYM**. Down the road, when more assets are integrated, the emission of esSYM in different markets will be determined by gauge voting. ### esSYM vesting LPs can stake symToken to stop esSYM from decaying, and start vesting esSYM into SYM. The amount of symToken needed is equal to the amount of symToken that **earned** the esSYM to be vested. For example, if an LP gets 100 esSYM for providing 100 GLP that got swapped, he will need to stake 100 symGLP to vest his 100 esSYM. 1 esSYM takes 1 year to be fully vested into 1 SYM. --- # 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.symfi.io/sym-finance/tokenomics/essym.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.