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Holding was never an issue, and as the 6 month lock finished ... I re-staked all the $DFI for more rewards. Six more months gone and now most of the rewards are out of the freezer and staked in an easy to withdraw pool.
**What happened in one year? **[DeFiChain (DFI)](https://pool.cakedefi.com/#?ref=823289) value was close to $0.50 before I joined. The growth started and never stopped, reaching the ATH at 5.61 USD. The sign-up bonus went from $30 worth of DFI to $87 in one year, a triple boost for the initial reward.
People joined the platform through my referral link and my $DFI bag got bigger. The Cake DeFi Olympic Bake-Off took place during the Olympic Games, boosting the sign-up reward to $50 worth of DFI tokens. The Olympic Bake-Off promotional campaign celebrated the Tokyo 2020 Olympic and the [++CakeDeFi++](https://pool.cakedefi.com/#?ref=823289) bakers. Investing in [++CakeDeFi++](https://pool.cakedefi.com/#?ref=823289) never been so rewarding... as one-time bonuses in $DFI can be won on top of the enhanced rewards. I had 4 qualifying referrals during the campaign, earning 4 x $25 referral bonus and 4 x $25 enhanced bonus for the Olympic Bake-Off plus $50 Bronze medal reward.
When I joined, my plan was to leave the bonus bloom for 180 days and then swap the $DFI to cash out the profit. Well ... meanwhile I decided to stay! [++CakeDeFi++](https://pool.cakedefi.com/#?ref=823289) has become a reliable source of passive income, with transparent reward system. Do you know any other DeFi project paying interest twice a day?
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The app got some updates and upgrades in the last months, and the new dashboard shows the total reward obtained from staking, lending and freezer in one simple graph. [++CakeDeFi++](https://pool.cakedefi.com/#?ref=823289) is so cool that the earnings of the referrals will also bring a small gain to the referee, as the mentor will be rewarded for showing the apprentice how to gain residual income.
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