Next-GenerationLiquid Staking

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STAKE & USE

How It Works

  • 1. Users Deposit Gas Tokens

    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

    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

    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

    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".

ECOSYSTEM

Use Cases

Pooling

Pooling

Farming

Farming

Decentralized Exchanges

Decentralized Exchanges

Restaking

Restaking

Perpetual Futures

Perpetual Futures

Indexes

Indexes

Lending

Lending

Bridging

Bridging

Governance

Governance

Gaming

Gaming

Collateralized Debt

Collateralized Debt

Launchpads

Launchpads

NFT Marketplaces

NFT Marketplaces

Pooling

Pooling

Farming

Farming

Decentralized Exchanges

Decentralized Exchanges

Restaking

Restaking

Perpetual Futures

Perpetual Futures

Indexes

Indexes

Lending

Lending

Bridging

Bridging

Governance

Governance

Gaming

Gaming

Collateralized Debt

Collateralized Debt

Launchpads

Launchpads

NFT Marketplaces

NFT Marketplaces

Pooling

Pooling

Farming

Farming

Decentralized Exchanges

Decentralized Exchanges

Restaking

Restaking

Perpetual Futures

Perpetual Futures

Indexes

Indexes

Lending

Lending

Bridging

Bridging

Governance

Governance

Gaming

Gaming

Collateralized Debt

Collateralized Debt

Launchpads

Launchpads

NFT Marketplaces

NFT Marketplaces

Pooling

Pooling

Farming

Farming

Decentralized Exchanges

Decentralized Exchanges

Restaking

Restaking

Perpetual Futures

Perpetual Futures

Indexes

Indexes

Lending

Lending

Bridging

Bridging

Governance

Governance

Gaming

Gaming

Collateralized Debt

Collateralized Debt

Launchpads

Launchpads

NFT Marketplaces

NFT Marketplaces

GOVERNANCE

Empowering

Our Community

Validator League

Validator League

Kintsu’s on-chain validator registry is fully transparent and permissionless. Weights are entirely controlled by the DAO. Validators compete to generate the highest yield and earn more stake delegation from the Kintsu staking pool. All proposals, votes, and treasury management are on-chain.

Purpose-built DAO

Purpose-built DAO

Kintsu’s governance is a representative democracy. DAO participants can vote on proposals and allocate their voting power on the Validator Registry, or they can delegate their voting power to others who act as representatives on their behalf.