# Harvest lockup

### Harvest Lockup

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 GHOST frequently, which would have a negative impact on the value. 

**Example of Harvest Lockup**

* **Pool:** GHOST
* **Harvest Lockup:** 4 hours.

Once the unlock time is complete (4 hours after desposit) harvest button will automatically enable the harvest. ✅

If you unstake before the harvest unlock period your rewards are still locked up but you can successfully unstake your LP tokens or single tokens anytime.