I received an email a couple of months ago (it may have been longer than that) informing me that Travala were reducing their staking returns from 24% APY to 12% APY.
HOWEVER, I just upgraded my SMART level to to L3 and I find out that the APY is now 8%? I most definitely DID NOT receive notification of that downgrade!
Still, I didn't have to actually actively buy any AVA to go up to Smart 3 - I'd been at Smart 2 a while and with the reduction in the amount of AVA required for each level the amount I'd accumulated in my wallet got me some of the way there!
The rest I gained from pooling some AVA on BEP - and because Rune and AVA spent most of the last couple of months bouncing around I'm up on both sides of that equation - so I just pulled out enough to boost my SMART level to level 3.
Although I'm not sure that's entirely rational - 8% APY compared to 55% APY in the Rune-AVA pool - but the way Rune is going I think I'm better off with LESS in my Rune Pools - in fact I pulled out around 25% of what I had staked a couple of days ago.
The fees you earn are good but I'm not so sure about the IL situation, the bane of every pooler's stake.
Maybe that's why I feel more comfortable with simple direct-staking platforms like Hive and Travala?!?
There's much less math involved!