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Auto-Claim for Flare and Songbird Rewards, Explained

Updated 2026-10-30

Short answer: auto-claim lets a claim service collect your FTSO delegation rewards for you every reward epoch (about every 3.5 days), so they can't expire. It's built into Flare and Songbird themselves: you choose a service once from your own wallet, and it can only claim to your wallet, never take your coins. Each claim costs a small fee, so it suits wallets with larger rewards, or anyone who'd rather not have to remember.

Why rewards need claiming at all

Delegating your wrapped FLR or SGB earns rewards every reward epoch, but they don't arrive by themselves: you have to claim them, and unclaimed rewards expire after about 90 days. See Why Your Flare Rewards Expire.

How auto-claim works

  • Flare and Songbird have a built-in system for this (the network's ClaimSetupManager contract). Your wallet picks a registered claim service, called an executor.
  • Each epoch, the executor claims your rewards in one transaction. The rewards go straight to your own wallet, already wrapped (WFLR or WSGB), so they keep earning if you delegate.
  • The network itself limits what an executor can do: it can claim your delegation rewards to you, and nothing else. It can't move, spend or withdraw your coins.
  • You can switch it off at any time, free, from your wallet.

What it costs on Crypto Lighthouse

  • When you turn it on: one fee, paid from your wallet: 0.35 FLR on Flare or 0.4 SGB on Songbird. The network charges it to add a claim service.
  • Each claim: the same amount, taken from the rewards being claimed before they reach you.
  • Network gas for the claims is paid by the service, not you.
  • Turning it off: free.

That's about 104 claims a year, so about 36.4 FLR a year on Flare (or 41.6 SGB on Songbird). The fee is set on the network's own contracts and shown before you agree.

Is it worth it for your wallet?

What decides it is the size of each reward compared with the fee. With delegation paying around 1.5% a year (it moves; see Flare Delegation: What You Can Earn, and the Risks), each epoch's reward and the share the fee would take look like this on Flare:

  • Below about 25,000 WFLR, claiming by hand once or twice a month is usually cheaper: one claim covers every waiting epoch, for a little network gas.
  • Above that, or if you know you'll forget, the fee is a small price for never losing a reward.
  • Our auto-claim box shows your own wallet's numbers (your average reward and what you'd keep) and warns you when the fee would take a large share.

The service also skips a claim when your reward is smaller than the fee, or when catching up a long backlog would cost more in gas than the fee. Those rewards stay yours to claim by hand.

How to turn it on

  1. Open My Rewards, and press Connect Wallet (or paste your address and connect to sign).
  2. Open the Flare or Songbird tab, then Rewards.
  3. If rewards are already waiting, claim them by hand first (no fee).
  4. Under Auto-claim, press Set up and read the fees, with your wallet's own numbers.
  5. Tick I agree and press Turn on, then confirm in your wallet. It pays the one-time fee.

To turn it off, open the same box and press Turn off, then confirm in your wallet. There's no fee. If you'd rather not see the offer, tick Not interested; you can bring it back any time.

Things to know

  • Choosing our service replaces any other claim service your wallet uses. We warn you first if you have one.
  • Auto-claim covers the rewards the network's RewardManager pays your wallet, mainly FTSO delegation rewards. rFLR and Merkl rewards are still claimed on the Rewards tab.
  • Claims can occasionally be late or skipped (for example if a network node is down). Rewards stay claimable by hand until they expire, so checking now and then is still wise.
  • Fees are not refundable. The full rules are in our Terms of Service, section 8.

Do this

  1. Check how much you delegate and what each epoch pays you.
  2. Under about 25,000 WFLR, set a monthly reminder and claim by hand.
  3. Above that, or if you keep forgetting, turn on auto-claim and let rewards compound as WFLR.
  4. Keep an eye on the expiry date on My Rewards either way.