1/ The @pStakeFinance team has been hard at work for over a year to deliver the best staking user experience for PoS asset holders while unlocking the liquidity of staked assets.
Below is a 🧵on what the team has built so far and what's in the pipeline
2/ A short summary of key milestones and timelines thus far:
- Q4 2020: Ideation and Mechanism Design
- Q1 2021: MVP and pBridge development
- Q2 2021: Alpha Release, bug bounty, and v1 launch with max deposit caps
- Q3 2021: Phase 1 of Security Audits and Uncapped Launch
3/ The ideation of @pStakeFinance commenced in Q4 2020 after realizing the huge demand from users to generate additional yields from already staked assets during the StakeDrop campaigns run by @PersistenceOne for the initial distribution of $XPRT to existing PoS asset holders
Super pumped to announce the fundraise of @PersistenceOne ecosystem project @pStakeFinance, a liquid staking platform focused on multiple PoS assets starting with $ATOM, $XPRT & expanding to other assets such as $ETH, $SOL, $LUNA etc over time
I was not early enough to be a BTC/ETH miner but was early enough in the industry to bet on 'PoS Mining' or validation through @AuditOne_ (rewards from Audit are responsible for initial bootstrapping of all Persistence products during the depths of bear in 2019/20)
Team members from Persistence were involved in the launch of the @cosmoshub and since, have been involved in the launch of multiple PoS networks including Persistence itself, a @tendermintHQ powered Protocol
BUT re the recent bashing of IPOs & founders..my belief is that when you’re trying to change the world - you need that charm, fearlessness, ignorance to attract capital, take the risk & have a small chance that it might work