# ChronoLock ⌚

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A **protective mechanism** that can be applied to farms or pools, to limit the frequency of Harvest that is allowed. This helps to prevent arbitrage by bots and other users exploiting APRs, harvesting and dumping PROTO frequently, which would have a negative impact on the value.

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For the Fantom protocol the team decided to leave the ChronoLock activated for the PROTO single pool only.
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**ChronoLock**

* Does not prevent investors from removing staked tokens or LP tokens from farms and pools. It only affects the frequency and availability of Harvest.
* Resets every time you Harvest, Stake, Unstake or Withdraw from a ChronoLock enabled farm or pool.


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