Liquid Collective is the secure liquid staking standard: a protocol with multi-chain capabilities designed to meet the needs of institutions, built and run by a collective of leading web3 teams including The Liquid Foundation, Alluvial, Coinbase Cloud, Figment, Kiln, Rome Blockchain Labs, Kraken, Staked, and more. Liquid Collective will be governed in a decentralized manner by a broad and dispersed community of industry participants.
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Staking and security leader Kraken joins independent industry consortium to build, secure, and support Liquid Collective’s enterprise-grade liquid staking protocol
Alluvial engaged Halborn, a leading blockchain security firm, to conduct a security audit on Liquid Collective's Ethereum liquid staking smart contracts to ensure that the smart contracts operate as intended and to identify potential security issues.
The Alluvial, Kiln, and Figment teams remediated the issues identified during the audit process and received final validation from Halborn.
Liquid staking is a rapidly growing alternative to locking up a user’s tokens and contributing to the security of proof-of-stake blockchains. Whereas traditional methods of staking are subject to bonding and unbonding periods (ranging from days to weeks), liquid staking provides stakers with increased liquidity and capital efficiency. Token holders stake their token and receive a receipt token as evidence of their ownership of their staked token. The receipt token can be transferred, stored, traded, and utilized in DeFi or supported dapps.
Liquid Collective is the secure liquid staking standard: a protocol with multi-chain capabilities designed to meet the needs of institutions, built and run by a collective of leading web3 teams. The protocol is stewarded by an independent industry consortium, which includes The Liquid Foundation, Alluvial, Coinbase Cloud, Figment, Kiln, Rome Blockchain Labs, Kraken, Staked, and other web3 industry participants. Liquid Collective will be governed in a decentralized manner by a broad and dispersed community of industry participants.
LsETH receipt tokens are minted when users deposit tokens to the protocol and are burned upon redemption. LsETH evidences ownership of the base amount of ETH staked by the user as well as any accrued staking rewards generated by the blockchain network, minus any potential penalties (e.g., slashing) imposed by the network and protocol service fees. For example, when a user stakes ETH, they mint the equivalent LsETH. As the staked ETH accrues additional staking rewards or is slashed, the same LsETH would represent more or less staked ETH and may be redeemable for a different amount of ETH.
The Liquid Collective protocol uses a cToken model for the LsTokens. The cToken evidences ownership of a staked token plus any accrued staking rewards and less any slashing penalties and fees. The conversion rate between the receipt token and the corresponding tokens continues to reflect the staked tokens + staking rewards — penalties and fees. The aToken model continuously updates the supply of a representative token to track the underlying token 1:1. This model can also be referred to as a rebase token model.
Yes. Halborn has successfully completed one audit in August and a second audit will be completed in September. The Alluvial, Kiln, and Figment teams remediated the issues identified during the audit process and received final validation from Halborn. View results of the Halborn audit.
