StackingDAO
StackingDAO
StackingDAO
  • The basics
    • Stacking DAO Overview
    • The Importance of Liquid Stacking
    • Immediate and Continuous Yield with Stacking DAO
    • Points
  • The Stacking DAO app
    • stSTX - Liquid Stacking with STX Rewards
      • stSTX Basics
      • Depositing & Switching for stSTX
      • Withdrawing from stSTX
    • stSTXbtc - Liquid Stacking with BTC rewards
      • stSTXbtc Basics
      • Depositing & Switching for stSTXbtc
      • Withdrawing from stSTXbtc
      • stSTXbtc Transfers Issues
    • Native Stacking with BTC Yield
      • Native Stacking with BTC Yield Basics
      • Depositing STX in Native Stacking Pool
      • Withdrawing STX From Native Stacking Pool
    • Signer Delegations & Analytics
    • What are the risks of using Stacking DAO?
    • Frequently Asked Questions
  • Core Contracts
    • Stacking DAO Core V4
    • Signer Onboarding
  • Audits
  • Miscellaneous
    • Essential links
    • Restricted countries
    • Disclaimer
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  • What Are The Differences Between stSTX, stSTXbtc, and Native Stacking?
  • How does Stacking DAO compare to other Stacking solutions?
  1. The basics

Stacking DAO Overview

NextThe Importance of Liquid Stacking

Last updated 10 days ago

What is Stacking? Stacking is locking STX to participate in Stacks Consensus. You can compare it to ETH staking. Today, 400m STX stacked with a yield of 9% or more. Follow live stats on .

Stacking DAO is expanding and evolving into an STX Stacking infrastructure powerhouse for the most prominent Bitcoin Layer 2.

Initially launched as a Liquid Stacking protocol, it rapidly became the largest Stacks DeFi platform, playing a key role in bootstrapping the ecosystem liquidity. Today, it’s driving Stacks forward as the hub for STX Stacking and DeFi innovation.

Stacking DAO goal is to empower the entire Stacks ecosystem, from users to builders, by developing the most comprehensive suite of services and features for all aspects of stacking and beyond.

The team has been developing new BTC yield products through STX stacking and is currently researching MEV and restaking solutions.

What Are The Differences Between stSTX, stSTXbtc, and Native Stacking?

Features
stSTX
stSTXbtc
Native Stacking

Non-custodial

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✅

✅

Immediate Stacking yield

✅

✅

❌

Continuous yield (Earn daily rewards)

✅

✅

❌

Tokenised representation of Stacked STX (liquid staking)

✅

✅

❌

BTC rewards

❌

✅

✅

Auto-compounding yield

✅

❌

❌

STX Rewards

✅

❌

❌

How does Stacking DAO compare to other Stacking solutions?

Custodial delegated stacking pools. Examples are OKX, Coinbase Custody, Bitgo and Copper. OKX and Coinbase Custody are live today. Custodial stacking pools take full custody of STX and offer an institutional UX. These pools also don’t offer a tokenised representation of stacked STX

Community delegated stacking pools. Examples are Stacking DAO native Stacking pool, Xverse pool, and Friedger pool. These pools allow users to stack their STX and earn BTC or STX rewards. These pools don’t offer a tokenised representation of stacked STX.

Custodial Pool
Community Pool
stSTX
stSTXbtc

Non-custodial

❌

✅

✅

✅

Tokenised representation of Stacked STX (stSTX)

❌

❌

✅

✅

Autocompounding STX yield

❌

❌

✅

❌

BTC yield

✅

✅

❌

✅

Immediate Stacking Yield

❌

❌

✅

✅

Continuous yield (Earn daily rewards)

❌

❌

✅

✅

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