Ankr Staking
Ankr Staking aims to bring the benefits of DeFi to the masses with the following solutions.
Liquid Staking
Liquid Staking extends the Staking experience to solve the problem of loss of liquidity and capital inefficiency. When assets are staked, they are usually locked up on-chain helping to maintain the network. However, Liquid Staking provides instant access to Liquid Staking tokens that are equivalent in value to the stake in a 1:1 ratio. These portable Liquid Staking tokens e.g. aMATICb, aETHb, aETHc, aAVAXb can be utilized on additional DeFi platforms to earn further rewards.
The clear benefits of Ankr Liquid Staking are:
- Minimum commitment costs
- Immediate access to liquidity
- Transfer of risks to Ankr experts
Parachain Liquid Crowdloan
Parachain Liquid Crowdloan provide similar benefits to Staking.
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Bond DOT/KSM: users bond DOT or KSM to a Polkadot project during a Parachain Slot Auction.
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Locked Liquidity: if the project wins a slot, the bonded DOT or KSM is inaccessible.
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Attain Instant Liquidity: however, Parachain Liquid Staking tokens can be instantly obtained. These are portable and usable elsewhere.
Token rewards from the winning project are distributed to Parachain Liquid Crowdloan token holders automatically.
DeFi
DeFi provides a single dashboard view of use cases for Liquid Staking tokens.
Ankr Bridge
Ankr Bridge brings cross-chain liquid staking to multiple chains to enable users to increase their yield opportunities.
Ankr Bridge is secured with ECDSA cryptography and a multi-party computation based Threshold Signature Scheme. This ensures that private keys are never exposed whilst mitigating against any single point of failure.
Ankr Switch
Ankr Switch enables the exchange of Liquid Staking tokens: between reward earning tokens and reward bearing tokens for the same asset.