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STAKE & USE
How It Works
1. Users Deposit Gas Tokens
When users deposit gas tokens (e.g. MON or HYPE) into the Kintsu stake pool, they receive Liquid Staking Tokens (LSTs) as receipts. These LSTs represent their proportional share of the pool's deposited gas tokens, and can be redeemed for their corresponding share of gas tokens.¸
2. Staking Generates Yield
Kintsu automatically delegates the pooled gas tokens to participating validators. These validators earn yield through both the network's Proof-of-Stake consensus and MEV fees. The amount delegated to each validator is determined by weights in the Kintsu validator registry, which is controlled by the Kintsu DAO. Validators return their staking rewards to the Kintsu stake pool.
3. Yield is Compounded
Kintsu then automatically compounds these returns by re-delegating the yield to validators as additional stake. This compounding increases the ratio of total gas tokens in the pool relative to outstanding LSTs. Consequently, the exchange ratio between the gas token and its corresponding LST grows steadily, giving LST holders a share in an expanding stake pool. The exchange ratio stays transparent and predictable. When users unstake their LSTs, they receive more gas tokens than they originally deposited.
4. Users Use LSTs for DeFi
While staked tokens earns yield, Kintsu LSTs remain composable & fungible, so they can be used as a proxy for gas tokens throughout the DeFi ecosystem. This solves one of the biggest opportunity costs of staking and lets users earn staking yield on their tokens while participating in trading, pooling, lending, futures, gaming, and more—a feature we call "composable yield".
