Staked Monad (sMON) is the foundation on which Kintsu sits. sMON holders can use sMON as a proxy for MON across DeFi, maintaining liquidity while earning staking and MEV yield.
superMON is an on-chain curated vault designed to maximize yield on Monad through strategic DeFi opportunities, curated by top high-frequency traders and risk management professionals.
KintsuinfusesstakingandMEVyieldintoMonadDeFitradingstrategieswhilepreservingdecentralizabilityandsecurityonthenetwork.ItispoweredbythefirstDAO-governeddecentralizedvalidatorregistry,turningstakingyieldintoacrediblyneutralpublicgood.
Liquid Staking with sMON unlocks liquidity otherwise trapped at the base layer, allowing users to earn staking yield on their tokens while participating in trading, pooling, lending, futures, and more.
When users deposit MON tokens into the Kintsu stake pool, they receive sMON Liquid Staking Tokens (LSTs) as receipts. These sMON tokens represent their proportional share of the pool's deposited MON tokens, and can be redeemed for MON.
Kintsu automatically delegates the pooled MON 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 in turn controlled by the Kintsu DAO (KSU token holders). Validators return their staking rewards to the Kintsu stake pool.
Kintsu automatically compounds these returns by re-delegating the yield to validators as additional stake. This process increases the ratio of total MON tokens in the pool relative to outstanding sMON. Thus, the exchange ratio between MON and sMON grows steadily, giving sMON holders a share in an expanding stake pool of MON. When users unstake their sMON, they receive more MON than they originally deposited.
While staked tokens earns yield, sMON remains composable & fungible, so they can be used as a proxy for MON 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".
Kintsu seamlessly integrates with leading protocols across DeFi, enabling users to access lending, swapping, farming, and more—all from a single unified platform.
TheKintsutoken(KSU)willgovernvalidatordelegationandcontroltheevolutionoftheKintsuDAO.WhenstakingandDeFimoveinsync,theentireMonadnetwork'sGDPexpands.
Built on principles of transparency and collective decision-making, Kintsu's governance ensures every voice is heard and every vote counts toward shaping the future of DeFi.
Security is our top priority. Kintsu's smart contracts have been rigorously audited by industry-leading firms to ensure the safety and integrity of your assets.
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KintsugiistheJapaneseartofrepairingbrokenpotterywithgold,suchthattheresultisevenmorebeautifulthantheoriginal.Itisasymbolofresilienceandbeauty.Kintsu'ssMONrepresentsthegoldliningthatisformedwhensMONunlocksliquidityatthebaselayer,providingyieldandliquiditytoanotherwisefragmentedDeFiecosystem.
