# FAQs

**What can I do on Dystopia?** 

Dystopia is a decentralized exchange built for stablecoins and closely correlated assets, improving upon solidly’s ve(3,3) mechanisms. 

**What are Emissions?** 

Emissions are tokens that are distributed regularly on a given period to reward liquidity providers.

**What can I do with DYST?**

DYST can be staked in Dystopia exchange to get veDYST. veDYST is used to vote for which liquidity pools receive emissions. The lock-up period could be as low as one week and as high as 4 years.

**What do I get from voting?** 

Voting for liquidity pools earns you the swap fees from the pools you vote for. So it is advised to vote for pools with the highest trading volume!

**How is Penrose Related to Dystopia?**

Penrose is a yield aggregator for Dystopia. This means you can take your DYST to Penrose and lock it there for a shorter period and still earn rewards. You are also able to vote more efficiently there.

**Do I need DYST to use Penrose?** 

You can deposit DYST on Penrose, or PEN tokens can be bought from a DEX like any other token.

**What is the whitelist tab for?** 

To create a liquidity pool, both tokens in the pair must be whitelisted first. To add a token to the whitelist, a user must have at least 0.2% of the total DYST supply.