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Mission

Kintsu is a . Our mission is to boost the GDP of Proof-of-Stake blockchains by allowing users to participate in on-chain activities while also benefitting from the yield-bearing staking that secures the blockchain. We do this by providing stakers with a liquid token which is backed by the blockchain's staked native gas tokens. We call this a Liquid Staking Token, abbreviated as LST .

Note: The Gas Token of Monad is MON, and the LST of Kintsu on Monad is sMON.

How it works

Kintsu improves on by allowing users to participate without themselves having to find and choose a validator to which to delegate. To accomplish this, Kintsu pools users’ MON tokens together and delegates them across a set of participating network for staking, and gives those users sMON tokens (the collateral) that can be used to redeem their staked MON at any time. The protocol maintains a decentralized list of participating validators, routes staking requests to them, and facilitates redemption requests on behalf of the user.

Liquid Staking Protocol
Delegated Proof-of-Stake
Validators