OUR PARTNERS
STAKE & USE
How It Works
1. Stake
When you stake MON into Kintsu Vault, you receive newly generated sMON tokens. Stay flexible, no need to have your tokens locked. Kintsu's network of top validators work to get you the best staking yield on Monad.
2. Vault
Vault stakes MON among many validators according to Registry weights, which are set democratically by the DAO. Our on-chain Validator Registry ensures fair, market-driven stake allocation to validators. KSU token holders govern the registry by assigning their voting power to validators, with each token representing one vote.
3. Yield
Validators generate yield from staking & MEV, which is continuously compounded. As yield is generated, the ratio of total MON in the protocol to outstanding sMON increases, and the exchange ratio follows. Over time, users can unstake their sMON in exchange for more MON back than they originally staked.
4. DeFi
Use your sMON in place of MON for all things DeFi. Lend, trade, borrow, game, and more while simultaneously earning yield on your staked MON. sMON is integrated natively across the Monad ecosystem through Kintsu's partner network.
ECOSYSTEM
Use Cases
Pooling
Farming
Decentralized Exchanges
Restaking
Perpetual Futures
Indexes
Lending
Bridging
Governance
Gaming
Collateralized Debt
Launchpads
NFT Marketplaces
Pooling
Farming
Decentralized Exchanges
Restaking
Perpetual Futures
Indexes
Lending
Bridging
Governance
Gaming
Collateralized Debt
Launchpads
NFT Marketplaces
Pooling
Farming
Decentralized Exchanges
Restaking
Perpetual Futures
Indexes
Lending
Bridging
Governance
Gaming
Collateralized Debt
Launchpads
NFT Marketplaces
Pooling
Farming
Decentralized Exchanges
Restaking
Perpetual Futures
Indexes
Lending
Bridging
Governance
Gaming
Collateralized Debt
Launchpads
NFT Marketplaces
GOVERNANCE
Empowering
Our Community
Validator League
Kintsu’s on-chain Validator Registry is fully transparent and permissionless and weights are entirely controlled by DAO. Validators compete to generate the highest yield and earn more stake delegation from the Kintsu Vault. All proposals, votes, and treasury management is on-chain.
Purpose-built DAO
Kintsu’s governance is a representative democracy. DAO participants cant 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. Either way, participants earn native Kintsu DAO staking rewards.