Staking is a public good for the Ethereum ecosystem. Any user with any amount of ETH can help secure the network and earn rewards in the process. Until the Merge Phase 2 is completed, Ether staked is locked until withdrawals are enabled.

Liquid staking, enables you to stake your assets and support Proof-of-Stake (PoS) networks, whilst giving you liquid ERC-20 tokens which you can freely trade, transfer, sell, or deploy with other DeFi earning strategies. With liquid staking, the funds remain liquid, meaning that, we can earn additional DeFi rewards simultaneously ****from yield farming on top of your staking rewards, compounding the earning potential instead of having to choose between plain asset staking or earning yield in DeFi.

Lido’s stETH is the most known example that works as follows:

• Staking — stETH balance in the wallet increases or decreases in the same rate as ETH2 staking returns, ie, rebases that account for yield generated and slashing events;
• Maturity — When the complete Ethereum 2.0 roadmap is fully executed, it will be redeemable at par, that is 1 stETH = 1 ETH;
• Liquidity — It is a freely tradable ERC-20 token on any DEX, allowing for early cash-outs at the give spot price.

While the merge roadmap keeps technically executing at a good pace, the economic forces of the bearish cycle push the bonds’ market price lower than their fair price — major upside opportunity, in ETH value.

These are the two key opportunities we intend to capitalise on:

https://twitter.com/ChainLinkGod/status/1535486884763185152

• ETH fundamental mispricing - Convert USD → ETH;
• ETH2.0 bonds market mispricing - From ETH → Discounted ETH2.0 Bonds → Extra ETH;

  • Best way to HODL stETH:

    https://twitter.com/mikedemarais/status/1536850511705812992

  • Forced stETH selling pose interesting opportunities:

    https://twitter.com/Blockanalia/status/1537817606614265857?s=20&t=CTVt9CYmeUuCRN3G5p24vg