The Berachain Mainnet is approaching; can the StakeStone Vault become a tool for capturing BERA?

With projects like Movement and Fuel gradually issuing tokens, Berachain has become one of the most关注的新兴公链之一, thanks to its on-chain liquidity "flywheel" designed based on PoL(Proof of Liquidity) mechanism. However, for ordinary users, every step from participating in pre-deposits to selecting DApps, formulating yield strategies, and governance voting places high demands on on-chain experience and operational ability, hindering most users from maximizing their opportunities to capture BERA.

It is worth noting that StakeStone has recently launched the market's first one-stop Berachain liquidity provision product "Berachain Vault", designed to simplify liquidity mining from pre-deposit activities to the POL mechanism, aimed at helping ordinary users easily participate in the Berachain ecosystem through a one-stop service and seize early benefits.

Can this Vault product become a "direct vehicle" for retail investors to participate in Berachain? This article will discuss its potential and value in lowering the entry barrier and optimizing yield management, starting from the emerging ecological demands represented by Berachain and combining the core design of StakeStone Berachain Vault.

Berachain: The "Flywheel" and "High Wall" of the POL Mechanism

When talking about Berachain, one cannot avoid its core innovation point, the PoL mechanism, which requires users to provide liquidity to specific liquidity pools in order to receive corresponding BGT(, a governance token that can be converted into BERA) as a reward. The liquidity pools that can receive more BGT emissions are determined by votes from the validating nodes entrusted by BGT holders.

This mechanism is very similar to Curve's ve model – on Curve, CRV holders receive veCRV with voting weight based on different locking durations, which in turn determines which trading pairs can receive subsequent emissions of CRV tokens. In other words, Berachain can be simply understood as "the public chain version of Curve," or a public chain operating based on the ve model.

Under the POL mechanism, the voting of validating nodes directly affects the emission and distribution of BGT, which will undoubtedly greatly stimulate ecological projects to actively create various liquidity incentive plans in order to strive for more BGT emissions, forming an ecosystem similar to the "bribery election" ecology on Curve.

Berachain embeds this logic into the underlying architecture of the chain, creating a highly collaborative "community of interests" among users, validating nodes, and DApps: validating nodes tend to allocate more BGT to DApps with high transaction volumes and strong activity, while DApps attract more users to participate in liquidity pools by increasing incentive returns for LP users. As more users flock in, the governance support and liquidity scale of the DApps further enhance, thereby vying for more BGT emission rights, gradually forming a strong positive flywheel.

However, this also brings new challenges to ordinary users: after the Mainnet launch, how to judge and choose the optimal liquidity provision plan to maximize returns? Whether it is the selection of validator nodes, ecological projects, or liquidity pools, each layer requires in-depth research on dozens of options, which undoubtedly poses a "high wall" for participants.

Typical user dilemmas include:

• Information Asymmetry: The yield conditions and governance weight distribution of different DApps/liquidity pools are in dynamic flux, requiring retail investors to invest significant effort in tracking and research to make optimal choices;

• Disadvantages of scale effects: The liquidity contribution of individual retail investors is relatively small, making it difficult to compete with large funds or professional players when bidding for emission rights, and it is challenging to achieve scale effects through individual participation.

• Complexity of operation: Managing liquidity, participating in voting governance, and optimizing returns simultaneously poses a high threshold for ordinary users. A slight misstep could lead to missing the best opportunity.

In response to this demand, the full-chain liquidity asset protocol StakeStone has launched an innovative product designed specifically for the Berachain ecosystem, Berachain Vault, becoming one of the earliest one-stop Berachain mining service platforms in the market.

StakeStone Berachain Vault: One Deposit, Two Networks, Multiple Returns

Traditional Vault products, while providing convenient asset management, have significant limitations in terms of yield appreciation and liquidity release. On one hand, the underlying native assets deposited by users are usually non-interest-bearing, making it impossible to generate direct returns; on the other hand, liquidity is often locked after depositing into the Vault, making it difficult to utilize further.

As stETH, pufETH, rzETH and other yield-bearing assets gradually become mainstream, Vault products have also evolved to support these assets with embedded yield logic, which not only capture basic yields from PoS staking but can also enhance returns through combination strategies such as liquidity mining and lending.

So, if the liquidity locked in the Vault is also released in the form of Vault LP Tokens and allowed to participate in various DeFi yield scenarios, can it maximize the stacking of multiple layers of yield?

StakeStone Berachain Vault is exactly such an innovative product, designed with Vault + Vault LP Token, completely opening up all dimensions of multiple revenues for users:

1. Wrap the LP assets of Berachain Vault into yield-bearing assets: users are allowed to deposit LP assets such as ETH, STONE, etc. The Vault maximizes returns on LP assets for specific scenarios through liquidity mining and governance yield strategies under the POL mechanism, and wraps them into yield-bearing Vault LP Tokens like beraSTONE(.

2. DeFi yield portfolio based on wrapped interest-bearing assets: Use Vault LP Tokens for various mature DeFi infrastructures on Ethereum, creating a unique parallel universe structure—where the yield source is on other chains like Berachain, while the leveraging activity occurs on the Ethereum Mainnet. This structure takes advantage of the high yields from new chains and the abundant funds and mature DeFi infrastructure on the Ethereum Mainnet.

In the design of StakeStone, the wrapped Vault LP Token possesses top-tier composability just like ETH—it can participate in Uniswap liquidity mining, Aave/Morpho collateralized lending, and even be split into PT and YT in Pendle, further amplifying returns.

The true innovation of StakeStone Berachain Vault lies in linking an asset through secondary utilization and deep release to the emerging ecosystem of Berachain and the mature networks of Ethereum ) or other EVM chains (, forming the "multi-level yield" flywheel effect.

• First layer earnings, PoS earnings from underlying interest-generating assets: Users can deposit ETH to obtain liquidity assets such as STONE across the entire chain, covering the underlying PoS earnings of ETH;

• Layer 2 earnings, POL earnings in the Berachain ecosystem: STONE deposits in StakeStone Berachain Vault, earning liquidity mining rewards under the POL mechanism in the Berachain ecosystem, and packaged as Vault LP Token) like beraSTONE(;

• Third layer income, diversified DeFi strategy income on Ethereum: Vault LP Token in the form of beraSTONE can be further increased on Ethereum through strategies such as leverage and liquidity mining.

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Through these two assets, users can not only obtain high BERA yields under the Berachain PoL mechanism, but also achieve yield stacking in mature ecosystems such as the Ethereum Mainnet. More importantly, users can also lock in future governance tokens STO in advance by participating in StakeStone Vault.

During the event, users can participate in a reward pool of a total of 15 million STOs by holding or using beraSTONE and beraSBTC, which includes 8.25 million Bera-Wave points awarded in the form of ) points, TGE settlement of (, and an additional reward of 4 million STOs during the Boyco event; furthermore, the first 10,000 early bird users who deposit ≥0.042 ETH or ≥0.0015 BTC ) will also receive an additional incentive of 150 STO per person.

Earning Bera-Wave points is mainly divided into two parts: basic points rules and DeFi acceleration rewards.

1. Basic Points Rules:

   • Holding 1 beraSTONE, you can earn 1 point per hour;
   • Holding 1 beraSBTC, you can earn 25 points per hour. ( points are accumulated hourly, no additional operation is required );

2. DeFi Acceleration Rewards - By investing beraSTONE or beraSBTC into the following DeFi protocols, you can significantly increase the speed of point accumulation:

   • Uniswap provides liquidity: 5 times the reward of base points.
   • Accurate liquidity range ( ±0.1% ): When the liquidity range remains within the current price ±0.1%, a reward of 6 times the base points can be obtained ( requires continuous activity ).
   • More protocol support: Pendle, Morpho and other protocols will be launched in the future, providing more reward opportunities.

These rewards cover Berachain PoL, Boyco Protocol, and future ecosystem benefits, as well as the future token airdrop of StakeStone, which can be described as "one fish, multiple meals," providing users with comprehensive opportunities to participate in Berachain & StakeStone.

It is worth noting that the current Berachain has not yet launched its Mainnet, so the initial operation of the StakeStone Berachain Vault will primarily target the Berachain pre-deposit protocol Boyco. The pre-deposit funds deployed to Boyco will not only earn direct BERA token rewards during the pre-deposit period but will also be 1:1 mapped to the Mainnet, laying the foundation for comprehensive access on the future Berachain Mainnet.

Once the Berachain Mainnet is launched, the core functionality of the Vault will switch to the POL system of the Berachain Mainnet, providing users with one-stop Berachain liquidity mining services.

This progressive deployment path not only reduces technical and operational risks but also provides early users with the opportunity to participate in the liquidity building of the Berachain ecosystem, allowing users to seize liquidity advantages before the Berachain Mainnet goes live and capture early liquidity mining rewards in the Boyco protocol.

Will StakeStone Vault be a new solution for the emerging on-chain ecosystem?

From the perspective of Berachain, the Berachain StakeStone Vault provides the earliest Berachain pre-deposit channel in the entire market, making it the preferred tool for seizing bonuses and maximizing returns.

However, from the perspective of the broader emerging blockchain market, the significance of this product goes far beyond that; it provides a new development approach for the entire emerging ecosystem—packaging the profits of the emerging ecosystem into interest-bearing assets and connecting them with more mature Mainnet infrastructure, thereby becoming an important channel for cross-ecosystem liquidity and yield management.

This mechanism is particularly suitable for emerging markets such as Berachain and Movement, as they often face challenges such as insufficient liquidity and incomplete infrastructure during cold starts or early ecological development. The Vault product previously launched by StakeStone in collaboration with Plume has preliminarily validated the feasibility of this model, and this StakeStone Berachain Vault represents a further deepening of this model.

Its core value lies in allowing a user's asset to be reused across multiple ecosystems, maximizing returns while unlocking liquidity potential:

• Lowering the participation threshold for emerging ecosystems: Users can capture ecological dividends through Vault without complex operations, allowing more people to efficiently participate in local yield capture in ecosystems like Berachain.

• Enhance the attractiveness of emerging ecological assets: By utilizing the encapsulation mechanism of Vault LP Tokens, traditionally locked assets are transformed into liquid and yield-generating assets on the Ethereum Mainnet, which not only improves asset utilization efficiency but also enhances the attractiveness of emerging ecological assets.

• Connect to mature networks to achieve value flow: The yield-bearing asset (beraSTONE), encapsulated in Vault, can seamlessly access mature financial infrastructures such as the Ethereum Mainnet, further amplifying asset returns, while the Berachain ecosystem can also establish deeper collaborative relationships with the global DeFi market.

This means that the Stakestone Vault product can not only capture the local yields of emerging ecosystems but also enhance its financial attributes by packaging assets such as LP into interest-generating assets. This allows it to access more abundant and mature liquidity markets like Ethereum in the form of structured products, thereby improving capital efficiency.

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