What is Stader? All about Stader and SD tokens

• Staders Overview
• What is Stader?
• Basic Features of Stader
• The advantages of Stader
• How Staders Make Profits
• Development plan
• Stader . Development Team
• Stader . project advisors, investors and partners
• Overview of the SD . token
• What are SD tokens?
• SD . Token Allocation Plan
• Functions of the SD . token
• Where can SD tokens be bought and sold?
• The future of the Stader project. Should I invest in SD tokens?
• summary

Staders Overview

What is Stader?

Stader is a smart contract platform , founded in April 2021 on the Terra network. Stader was created to help delegators conveniently explore staking solutions and gain access to the best returns based on their risk tolerance.

Stader started with Terra because the ecosystem is focused on creating opportunities for mainstream users to participate in blockchain, as well as having a growing community of developers. Terra is also a mature DeFi ecosystem that can be leveraged to build strategies with staking rewards. The development team believes that Terra will be one of the largest cryptocurrency ecosystems.

In addition, Stader has deeply identified the problems that the 3 main stakeholders of the PoS network (delegator, validator and network) face:

• The PoS network faces the problems of staking centralization.
• Delegators face complexity in discovering the trust nodes as well as in the process of managing stakes.
• Node operators struggle to choose the right trustee.

In 3 to 5 years, the crypto world will have 100 blockchains spanning Layer-1, NFT, games, Web 3.0, and Layer-2 networks. PoS and Staking will be the underlying layer powering these blockchains. Trillions of dollars of the staking economy will be built on staking systems.

As staking solutions explode in diversity and complexity, there will be a huge gap in the market, i.e. a platform that helps users or institutions discover and identify the best staking opportunities. , tailored to their needs and risk tolerance. The gap will be bridged by an unattended, smart contract-based platform, and Stader aspires to be an aggregate layer solution across multiple blockchain networks.

With interoperability with individual contracts, an explosion of applications built on top of Stader contracts can be predicted in the near future.

Basic Features of Stader

At its core, Stader was created to address the challenges of the staking ecosystem by designing a modular infrastructure that allows project development teams and third parties to build Seamless staking products, while rapidly accelerating innovation.

At the beginning, the project built smart contracts for staking on Terra. Stader smart contracts to be launched in the next few weeks, have the following capabilities:

• Staking on any group of validators (in the validators list) in a single transaction; Monitor validator performance and rebalance on validator nodes for optimal performance.
• Deploy staking rewards on any protocol, one-click airdrop possible.
• Issuance of tokens for liquidity staking (will be released a few weeks after the launch of v1).

The advantages of Stader

With a multitude of staking possibilities, Stader is building a modular platform that allows anyone to use Stader's existing components to build their own staking solutions.

As staking grows over the next few years, the project's architecture will allow for flexible development and the incorporation of new features every day. Scalability is at the core of Stader's technical design, with a system of highly interoperable smart contracts. In the future, incorporating a strategy or a new tank will only require minor changes in some specific stand-alone contracts.

Stader separates the base capital and rewards by different contracts. This is to ensure that the underlying is always isolated from interactions with other protocols.

Here are a few core smart contracts that make up the current Stader infrastructure:

• Delegator Contract: Delegator funds will be deposited and can be withdrawn from this contract
• Validator contract: Used to stake trustees' funds, has the function of receiving rewards and airdrops
• Contracts of pools: Tool to monitor validator contracts, manage stakes across validator pools, and potentially support multiple pools
• Strategic Contracts: Leverage staking rewards and synthetic assets to interact and integrate with other DeFi or gaming protocols to maximize returns.

The modular design of Stader smart contracts opens the door for third parties to interact with any of the project's smart contracts and build additional staking applications. Here are some examples of what this capability can do:

• The creation of customizable products to meet the requirements of specific trust groups, such as organizations, can be built quickly. A third party can take advantage of Stader's contract to build their own pools, with validators in their respective geographies, to comply with taxes and related regulations. Also, allow their users to place bets with just one click. Venture capital funds can create customizable strategic contracts that deposit staking rewards into their liquid wallets to avoid multiple taxes.

• The network can take advantage of the pool contract, which includes a very high number of validator nodes (e.g. Solana staking pools) in the pool and incentivize the trustees to stake in this pool by paying a share. higher staking rewards.
• Fintech apps (e.g. Robinhood, Revolut) can use Stader's delegator contract to enable one-click staking right in their app, opening up a convenient staking service for all their use.
• Any DeFi protocol or game application can integrate with Stader's Strategies contract.

How Staders Make Profits

From short to medium term, Stader will make profit in 3 ways:

• Commission distributed from validators: 10-20% of the distribution fee on the total commission of validators, depending on the actual percentage in the governance process of the shareholders.
• Commissions from reward strategies: 2-10% management fee for rewards, depending on the actual percentage in the governance process of the shareholders.
• Commission on tokens with liquidity in staking: 5-10% commission for staking rewards, depending on the actual rate in the governance of shareholders.

Development plan

Staders started their journey by creating staking products on Terra. Stader for the goal of 5 to 6 PoS blockchains by mid-2022, including Near, Polkadot, Ethereum, Polygon… At the same time, integrate third-party liquidity tokens and build strategies to maximize yield mining (yield) automatically.

In the long term, Stader Labs plans to build APIs to provide end-to-end staking solutions for mainstream Fintech exchanges and applications, exploiting unmet financial needs with quality staking products. high for retail crypto investors.

When the project successfully captures market share on Terra and Solana, Stader will focus on releasing other systems (NEAR, EVM chains...) by:

• Enhance the ability to modularize contracts, to be leveraged by third parties to build further applications on Stader
• Build robust performance rebalancing and monitoring infrastructure to help the network and other protocols manage their stakes well
• Allows staking of forked blocks like lego on other PoS blockchains. In the future, we can imagine a world where every blockchain leverages Stader to build their staking infrastructure, opening a new page for a multitude of staking applications.

Stader version 1.0

Stader's V1 contracts are currently undergoing extensive testing upon completion of the audit. The project plans to launch the first version (V1) on the official Terra network in mid-November. Details of the V1 launch event will be updated soon.

Here are some of the key features of Stader's V1:

• Many pools for small groups of trustees (4-5 people) to reduce the risk of cuts and contribute to network decentralization.
• Automatic pooling of rewards (converting stablecoins to LUNA and reinvesting) leads to higher returns.
• The one-click airdrop function makes Stader staking much lower transaction costs.

Stader V1 will be launched with a community farming event. The project will dedicate a portion of the total supply of SD tokens to this event. More details on the community farming event will be shared on the project's media channels soon.

Stader version 2.0

Stader's V2 will open up even more possibilities for staked assets. The development team plans to launch a liquid token for staking LUNAs. At the same time, adding more integration possibilities across ecosystems into staking and airdrop rewards strategies. V2 launch time will be shared soon. V1 participants will also have access to most of V2's features.

Some key features of Stader V2:

Liquidity tokens

The highly liquid token allows instant unlocking of staked LUNA along with:

• Leverage liquid tokens as collateral on lending protocols
• Access staking rewards and keep earning airdrops
• Provide potential liquidity pools on DEX exchanges.

DeFi Strategy

DeFi Strategy integrates with a DeFi protocol and a launchpad on Terra to amplify APY.

Integrated gaming

Integrate with at least one reward-driven gaming protocol.

Stader . Development Team

Stader's founding team are people who have been active in the crypto world for many years. They have deep experience in staking and building mining optimized platforms. The team realizes how difficult and laborious it is to choose a mining pool, and they see the same thing happening in staking. The project development team wants to make staking easier, along with introducing some staking innovations. 

As they embarked on their journey to build cross-chains based on fragmented blocks, Stader Labs understood that the most important thing was to first demonstrate the success of the platform. Thus, they began their journey with Terra and Solana.

• CEO and Co-Founder – Amitej: Over 10 years of experience building strategies, scaling startups, and transforming businesses.
• CTO and Co-Founder – Sidhartha: Over 10 years of experience building and scaling technology solutions at US startups, deep expertise in cryptocurrency mining.
• Product Lead – Vijay: An experienced product development team leader with deep expertise in building consumer products at scale.
• Protocol Lead – Dheeraj: Over 10 years of development experience at LinkedIn, Blend, PayPal and Facebook.
• Protocol and Community Strategy – Vamshi: Over 10 years of experience in market development and product strategy for financial services and games.

Stader . project advisors, investors and partners

Stader Labs has raised a total of $4 million in funding in one round. This is a seed round announced on October 7, 2021, led by Panterra Capital. The project is funded by 16 investors. Terra and True Ventures are the most recent investors. Also present were Coinbase Ventures, True Ventures, Jump Capital, and Ledgerprime, and angel investors including Jaynti Kanani (CEO, Polygon), Sandeep Nailwal (COO, Polygon), Nemil Dalal (Head of Department), Crypto developer, Coinbase), Sumit Gupta (CEO, CoinDCX), Ahmed Al Balaghi (CEO, Biconomy), Aniket Jindal (COO, Biconomy) and Harsh Rajat (CEO, EPNS).

Overview of the SD . token

What are SD tokens?

SD token is the project's own token. The total Stader token supply will be capped at 150 million SD tokens. The project development team has carefully designed the protocol's tokenomics to encourage the long-term sustainability of the Stader platform.

The Stader SD token distribution was planned to incentivize the community to own the majority of the network, while retaining a suitable portion to incentivize third parties to build on the Stader platform.

SD . Token Allocation Plan

• 17% for project team and advisors
• 13% for private sale investors
• 15% for fund managed by DAO
• 15% for ecosystem development funds
• 40% for community farming events and pools rewards

Functions of the SD . token

The core benefits of SD tokens include:

Incentive trust and insurance

• Incentive Trust: The validator node will stake a minimum amount of SD tokens and a percentage of the pool trustees will be distributed proportionately based on the staked SD tokens.
• Insurance from cut-off penalties: Will be deducted directly from validator nodes' staked SD tokens.

Rewards and discounts

• Liquidity Pool Bonus: A liquidity provider incentive for shareholders of liquid SD and UST/LUNA or SD and LUNA pairs (LunaX), where SD is the base token of all pairs .
• Discount Tokens: SD token holders receive a reduced fee when using Stader solutions.
• Withdrawal Fee: Part of the withdrawal fee from Stader pools will be redistributed to the shareholders participating in the governance.

Administration

The SD token is the governance token. Governing shareholders can propose and vote on policies related to the selection of effective pools, selection of validator nodes, changes in implementation methods, etc.

Leverage Stader . infrastructure

Protocol developers holding SD tokens can access Stader's infrastructure and smart contracts.

Where can SD tokens be bought and sold?

Currently, SD token has opened trading registration on CoinList . The deadline for registration is at 06:59 on January 24, 2022. The open sale program has 2 options as follows:

• Option 1: At 01:00 am, January 26, 2022 
• Option 2: At 06:00 am, January 26, 2022

A few highlights of the project so far:

• Stader is creating a modular smart contract infrastructure for staking on PoS chains.
• Stader has launched two staking products on Terra: Simplified staking (Stake Pools) and Liquid staking (LunaX).
• Since their launch on 11/23/2021, these solutions have enjoyed significant growth in Terra's DeFi ecosystem.

The future of the Stader project. Should I invest in SD tokens?

Stader Labs is built on Terra, where staking activities take place in full swing. From the chart above, investors can see that the overall supply of LUNA stock is trending up. This is possible because Terra creates many incentives for investors to stake LUNA or other tokens: Stake to vote, earn money with attractive savings rate, stake to participate in lockdrop events, stake to receive airdrops…

Therefore, Stader Labs can also benefit from this behavior of Terra users. By emphasizing outstanding features when staking on Stader, the platform can attract investors to stake into Stader Labs pools. Besides, by providing some superior features to Terra Station, Stader Labs can also attract users from Terra Station to its platform.

Stader Labs' current TVL has reached about 300 million, which means that if you follow it on DefiLlama, it will be in 5th place, just behind the key players in Terra (Anchor, Lido, Terraswap and Mirror). Besides having a significant TVL, Stader Labs is also invested by top investors: Pantera, Coinbase Ventures… so it can be seen as a legitimate and promising project on Terra.

summary

Stader Labs is on a mission to deliver sustainable staking returns from digital assets to over 1 billion users. Stader was developed with the aim of becoming a staking distribution layer, and at the same time, building protocols and products that enhance security, decentralization, liquidity, governance for some of the major DPoS blockchain networks such as: Ethereum, Terra, Polygon and Solana.

To better understand the project as well as keep up to date with the latest information, please visit Stader's communication channels:

Website | Project Information | Twitter | Telegram | Medium | Discord

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