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CAKE (PancakeSwap)
Author's status: ActiveUpdated: 2026-09-28
I hold CAKE and stake it in a Syrup Pool.
Staking
- Token
- $CAKE
- Typical APY
- Varies by pool
- Rewards
- Stake in a Syrup Pool to earn other tokens or CAKE
- Note
- Tokenomics 3.0 in April 2025 removed veCAKE, gauge voting, revenue sharing and farm boosts. CAKE staking now means Syrup Pools (flexible, withdraw any time, or fixed-term with higher yield), and yields vary by pool.
Valuation
- FDV (fully diluted)
- $1.0BMarket cap $1.0B
- FDV ÷ revenue
- 12.4xRevenue, last 365 days $84.3M17.4x on the last 90 days × 4 (annualized $60.1M)
- FDV ÷ holder returns
- 25.9xBuybacks, burns and distributions over the last 90 days: $10.1M (×4 to annualize)
- Note
- Emissions continue, but burns are designed to exceed them: net supply fell 8.19% in 2025, with a target of at least 4% a year. In January 2026 the max supply was cut from 450M to 400M. Almost all supply circulates, so FDV and market cap are close.
As of 2026-09-28. FDV and price from CoinGecko; revenue and holder returns from DefiLlama. The denominator is revenue, not profit, so this is closer to a price-to-sales ratio than a P/E. The author treats FDV ÷ revenue of 5x or less as cheap, but it moves a lot with revenue swings and unlocks.
TGE and points
- TGE
- $CAKE2020-09
- Points program
- No points
Team, funding and user base
- Base
- Unverified
- Founders / leads
- Not published (team only partly public)The development team is anonymous, going by "Chef". The largest DEX on BNB Chain, also deployed on Solana, Aptos and Monad.
- VC funding
- UndisclosedNo VC funding disclosed.
- X followers
- 2.13M@PancakeSwapas of 2026-09-28
Risks and caveats
- The team is anonymous ("Chef").
- Revenue depends on BNB Chain volume, especially memecoin activity.
- veCAKE and revenue sharing were removed in April 2025, so returns to holders now come mainly from burns. Staking rewards depend on the Syrup Pool.
Links
Sources
- PancakeSwap Blog - Implementation of CAKE Tokenomics 3.02025-04
- PancakeSwap Docs - Syrup Poolsaccessed 2026-09-28
- PancakeSwap Docs - CAKE Tokenomicsaccessed 2026-09-28
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