With the mainnet launch approaching, how can users efficiently and effortlessly maximize their BGT/BERA rewards on Berachain?

As tokens like Movement and Fuel are gradually released, Berachain has gained attention as one of the few emerging public blockchains leveraging a liquidity flywheel powered by the PoL (Proof of Liquidity) mechanism. However, for ordinary users, this innovative design also creates a significant barrier to entry:

From participating in Boyco pre-deposit events, selecting DApps, and strategizing yield calculations to engaging in governance voting, every step requires substantial on-chain experience and operational skills, making it challenging for most users to maximize their BERA rewards. Additionally, there are currently almost no accessible tools to simplify this process.

Enter StakeStone’s “Berachain Vault,” the market’s first all-in-one liquidity provisioning product for Berachain. This solution is specifically designed to streamline everything from Berachain’s pre-deposit events to liquidity mining under the POL mechanism. It provides a concierge-like service to help regular users participate in the Berachain ecosystem with ease, capturing early-stage opportunities.

Can this Vault product become the “fast track” for retail users to engage with Berachain? This article will examine the emerging ecosystem demands represented by Berachain and analyze the core design of StakeStone Berachain Vault, exploring its potential to lower participation barriers and optimize yield management.

Berachain: The “Flywheel” and “High Wall” of the POL Mechanism

When discussing Berachain, its core innovation—Proof-of-Liquidity (POL)—is central to the conversation. This mechanism requires users to provide liquidity to specific pools in order to earn BGT (a governance token that can be converted into BERA) rewards. The allocation of BGT emissions to these pools is determined by votes from validator nodes delegated by BGT holders.

Does this sound familiar? If we replace Berachain with Curve, the POL mechanism with the ve model, and BGT with CRV, the operational logic is strikingly similar. On Curve, CRV holders gain veCRV with voting power by locking their tokens for different durations. This voting power allows them to influence which liquidity pools receive subsequent CRV emissions. In simpler terms, Berachain can be seen as a “blockchain version of Curve,” or more precisely, a public blockchain operating on a ve-like model:

Under the POL mechanism, validator node votes directly impact the emission and allocation of BGT, which will undoubtedly incentivize ecosystem projects to actively create various liquidity incentive programs to compete for more BGT emissions. This dynamic resembles the “vote-buying” ecosystem seen on Curve.

However, Berachain integrates this logic into the chain’s foundational architecture, forming a highly collaborative “community of shared interests” among users, validator nodes, and DApps.

Ideally, the success of validator nodes and DApps is aligned, giving validators an incentive to direct more BGT emissions to DApps with high transaction volumes and strong activity. In turn, DApps will offer higher rewards to liquidity providers (LPs) to attract more users to their pools. These high-volume pools generate significant returns, creating a mutually beneficial cycle.

As more users flock to liquidity pools due to high rewards, the governance support and liquidity scale of the DApps increase, enabling them to secure even more BGT emissions. This growing liquidity and governance weight not only strengthens the protocol but also attracts additional users and capital into the ecosystem, gradually forming a robust positive feedback loop.

However, new challenges arise: once Berachain’s mainnet launches, how can ordinary users determine and select where to provide liquidity to maximize their returns?

From choosing validator nodes to ecosystem projects and liquidity pools, each layer involves dozens of options that require in-depth research. This undoubtedly creates a “high wall” for participants.

Compared to Curve, the Berachain ecosystem will also need a range of user-focused projects for support. Platforms like Convex for vote delegation and Yearn.finance for one-stop yield optimization will be indispensable components to address the core pain points of ordinary users in the Berachain ecosystem.

Typical user challenges include:
Information asymmetry: The rewards and governance weight distribution of different DApps and liquidity pools are in constant flux. Retail users need to invest significant time and effort to track and research these dynamics to make optimal decisions.

Lack of scale: Individual retail users often contribute small amounts of liquidity, making it difficult to compete with large-scale projects or professional players in securing emissions rights. Achieving economies of scale through solo participation becomes challenging.

Operational complexity: Managing liquidity, participating in governance voting, and optimizing yields simultaneously is daunting for ordinary users. Even minor oversights, such as failing to adjust voting directions or reallocate liquidity in time, can significantly impact overall returns.To address these needs, the cross-chain liquidity asset protocol StakeStone has introduced an innovative product: Berachain Vault, specifically designed for the Berachain ecosystem. As the first officially endorsed one-stop yield farming platform on Berachain, it stands out as the earliest comprehensive solution in the market.

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

In the context of DeFi, a “Vault” is an automated investment strategy designed to simplify the user experience. Users simply deposit assets, and the protocol automatically executes a series of financial transactions, using various strategy combinations to maximize returns. However, traditional Vault products, while offering convenient asset management, have notable limitations in terms of yield enhancement and liquidity release.

On one hand, the assets users deposit are typically non-yielding native assets like ETH, which, despite having high market recognition, do not generate direct returns. On the other hand, once deposited into the Vault, liquidity is often locked, making it difficult to further utilize, which limits the flexibility of the user’s investment.

As yield-generating assets like stETH, pufETH, and rzETH gradually become mainstream, Vault products have evolved to support these assets with embedded yield logic. This allows them to not only capture basic returns from PoS staking but also further amplify returns through combined strategies such as liquidity mining and lending, maximizing the user’s investment return.

Building on this, 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, wouldn’t it be possible to maximize the yield by stacking multiple layers of returns?

Taking the newly launched Berachain StakeStone Vault as an example, it is an innovative product that not only continues the asset management functionality of Vault but also opens up all dimensions of multi-layered returns for users through the innovation of Vault + Vault LP Token.

The LP assets of Berachain Vault are packaged into income-generating assets: users who want to participate in the Berachain ecosystem can deposit ETH, STONE, or other LP assets (income-generating or non-income-generating). After receiving the assets, the Vault utilizes liquidity mining and governance reward strategies under the POL mechanism to maximize returns for LP assets in specific liquidity scenarios, and then packages them into income-generating Vault LP Tokens (e.g., beraSTONE).

Next, DeFi yield combinations are made based on the packaged income-generating assets: the Vault LP Tokens can be used on Ethereum’s mature DeFi infrastructure to create a brand-new parallel universe structure: the source of income comes from Berachain and other chains, while the leverage activities for income generation happen on the Ethereum mainnet. This structure simultaneously benefits from the high returns of new chains and the ample funds and mature DeFi infrastructure on the Ethereum mainnet, offering the potential to become a new paradigm in the DeFi market.

In StakeStone’s design mechanism, the packaged Vault LP Tokens have top-tier composability, just like ETH — they can participate in Uniswap liquidity mining, Aave/Morpho collateralized lending, and even be split into PT and YT in Pendle, further amplifying returns.

So, upon closer inspection, the true innovation of the StakeStone Berachain Vault lies in the secondary utilization and deep release of a single asset, linking the emerging Berachain ecosystem with the mature networks of Ethereum (or other EVM chains), creating a “multi-layered yield” flywheel effect.

The first layer of yield is the PoS yield from underlying interest-bearing assets: users can deposit ETH to receive STONE and other full-chain liquidity assets, covering the PoS yield of ETH.

The second layer of yield is the POL yield from the Berachain ecosystem: STONE deposited into the StakeStone Berachain Vault generates liquidity mining rewards under the POL mechanism in the Berachain ecosystem, and this yield is further wrapped into a Vault LP Token (e.g., beraSTONE).

The third layer of yield is the diversified DeFi strategy yield on Ethereum: the Vault LP Token in the form of beraSTONE can be used on Ethereum to generate additional returns through strategies such as leverage and liquidity mining.

By combining the ecosystem characteristics of Berachain with the diverse on-chain yield scenarios of Ethereum, StakeStone Berachain Vault enables multiple reuse of an asset from emerging markets to mature ecosystems. This maximizes yield while fully unlocking liquidity potential, significantly improving the utilization efficiency of a single asset. It also brings higher capital liquidity and market recognition to the Berachain ecosystem.

Through these two assets, users can not only earn high BERA rewards under the Berachain Liquidity Proof (PoL) mechanism, but also achieve yield stacking in mature ecosystems like the Ethereum mainnet. More importantly, users can lock in future governance token STOs by participating in the StakeStone Vault:

During the event, users holding or using beraSTONE and beraSBTC can participate in a reward pool of 15 million STOs, including 8.25 million Bera-Wave points (distributed in points form, settled at TGE) and an additional 4 million STO rewards during the Boyco event. Additionally, the first 10,000 early bird users (depositing ≥0.042 ETH or ≥0.0015 BTC) will receive an extra incentive of 150 STO per person.

How to earn Bera-Wave points? It mainly consists of two parts: basic point rules + DeFi acceleration rewards (the referral reward mechanism is detailed in the process below).

• Basic point rules:

Hold 1 beraSTONE to earn 1 point per hour;

Hold 1 beraSBTC to earn 25 points per hour (points accumulate hourly without additional action);

• DeFi acceleration rewards — Depositing beraSTONE or beraSBTC into the following DeFi protocols can significantly increase the point accumulation speed: Provide liquidity on

Uniswap: 5x rewards for basic points. Precise liquidity range (±0.1%): When liquidity remains within the current price ±0.1%, users can earn 6x rewards for basic points (must remain active). More protocol support: Future protocols such as Pendle and Morpho will be supported, providing more reward opportunities and further increasing point earnings.

Overall, these rewards cover Berachain PoL, Boyco protocol, future ecosystem earnings, and the future token airdrops from StakeStone, offering a “one fish, multiple bites” strategy that provides users with comprehensive participation opportunities in both Berachain and StakeStone. The specific operation process is simple:

• Go to the StakeStone Vault interface and click “Deposit” to enter the StakeStone Berachain Vault interface.

• Connect the wallet in the upper right corner.

• Enter the invitation code to receive a 10% points boost reward (you can use code 91852), share your personal invitation code on Twitter to earn additional referral rewards (20%).

• Deposit ETH/STONE/WETH to receive beraSTONE; deposit SBTC/WBTC/cbBTC/BTCB to receive beraSBTC (not yet available). Holding beraSTONE or beraSBTC will earn points.

Only Ethereum mainnet assets are eligible; if not, click "Switch Network" to switch to the Ethereum mainnet. 
On the left, select the asset you want to deposit, enter the amount, then click the "Deposit" button and "Confirm" in your wallet.

• Participate in DeFi protocols to earn more rewards.

It is worth noting that Berachain’s mainnet is not yet live, so the initial operation of the StakeStone Berachain Vault will mainly target the Berachain pre-deposit protocol, Boyco. Funds deposited into 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 full integration with the Berachain mainnet in the future.

Once the Berachain mainnet is live, the Vault’s core functionality will switch to the Berachain mainnet’s POL system, offering users a one-stop liquidity mining service on Berachain.

This progressive deployment path not only reduces technical and operational risks but also provides early users with the opportunity to participate in Berachain’s liquidity-building efforts, allowing them to capture early liquidity mining rewards in the Boyco protocol before the Berachain mainnet launches.

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

From Berachain’s perspective, the Berachain StakeStone Vault offers the earliest pre-deposit channel in the market, making it the preferred tool for seizing early profits and maximizing returns.

Especially during the key window when the Berachain mainnet is about to launch and the mining mechanism is about to be activated, it helps ordinary users lock in early dividends from the new ecosystem without facing complex technical operations, allowing retail investors to participate fairly in Berachain’s ecosystem profits.

However, from the broader perspective of the emerging blockchain market, the significance of this product goes far beyond this. It not only provides an innovative liquidity management solution for Berachain, but also offers a new development approach for the entire emerging ecosystem—encapsulating the profits of emerging ecosystems into income-generating assets and connecting them with more mature mainnet infrastructure, thus becoming an important pipeline for cross-ecosystem liquidity and profit management.

This mechanism is particularly suitable for emerging markets like Berachain and Movement, as they often face challenges such as insufficient liquidity and underdeveloped infrastructure during their cold start or early ecosystem development phases. The Vault products previously launched by StakeStone in cooperation with Plume have preliminarily validated the feasibility of this model, and the StakeStone Berachain Vault is a further deepening of this approach.

Its core value lies in allowing a single asset to be reused across multiple ecosystems, maximizing returns while releasing liquidity potential:

Lowering the participation threshold for emerging ecosystems: Users can capture ecosystem dividends through Vault without complex operations, enabling more people to efficiently participate in the local profit capture of ecosystems like Berachain, thus achieving broader user coverage.

Enhancing the appeal of emerging ecosystem assets: Through the encapsulation mechanism of Vault LP Token, assets that were traditionally locked are transformed into income-generating assets on the Ethereum mainnet, improving asset utilization efficiency and enhancing the attractiveness of emerging ecosystem assets.

Connecting mature networks and enabling value flow: The income-generating assets (such as beraSTONE) encapsulated in the Vault can seamlessly integrate with more mature financial infrastructures, such as Ethereum mainnet, further amplifying asset returns and allowing the Berachain ecosystem to establish a deeper collaborative relationship with the global DeFi market.

This means that the StakeStone Vault product can not only capture local profits from emerging ecosystems but also, by encapsulating assets like LP tokens into income-generating assets, give them higher-dimensional financial attributes. It allows these assets to be connected to more abundant and mature liquidity markets such as Ethereum, improving capital efficiency.

The complexity of Berachain’s POL mechanism and its asset management needs during the early stages of launch make it an ideal testing ground for the StakeStone Vault model. The Vault mechanism not only effectively addresses Berachain’s liquidity bottleneck during the cold start phase but also injects more application scenarios and profit paths into its ecosystem assets:

On one hand, the automated strategies within the Vault help users efficiently capture local profits such as liquidity mining and governance rewards.

On the other hand, the encapsulated income-generating assets can participate in more mature ecosystems’ multi-layered profit scenarios, such as liquidity mining on Uniswap, collateralized lending on Aave, and even yield splitting on Pendle.

This mechanism not only enhances the compounded return of assets but also promotes the acceptance and recognition of emerging ecosystems like Berachain. As more emerging ecosystems are launched, the demand for asset profits and capital efficiency from these ecosystems will undoubtedly become more complex, which means that the innovative mechanism of the StakeStone Vault provides a dynamically adaptable asset management method. It can develop different types of asset yield stacking and secondary utilization based on any emerging ecosystem, further enhancing investment returns.

In this framework, the StakeStone Vault is not only an efficient asset management tool but also an important bridge connecting emerging ecosystems to mainstream blockchain ecosystems.

Conclusion

Whether in traditional finance or the DeFi world, improving capital efficiency has always been the ultimate goal for all players.

For on-chain yield products, how to maximize returns in a simple and secure manner, making every dollar work as effectively as possible, can also be seen as the eternal “muse” of the market. From this perspective, the StakeStone Berachain Vault and the StakeStone Vault product structure behind it actually provide emerging public chains with a very interesting new paradigm:

By using a Vault with embedded multi-layered yield paths as a bridge, it simplifies user participation, attracts external capital, and simultaneously packages the ecosystem’s profits into a liquid income-generating asset. This enables seamless integration of local profit opportunities with mainstream DeFi markets, providing the entire emerging ecosystem with an ideal path for launch and long-term growth.

In the future, whether this model can become a universal solution for emerging ecosystems, or even grow into a multi-billion-dollar on-chain financial narrative, remains to be seen. However, the vision and practice of the StakeStone Berachain Vault may be one of the best paths to approaching the answer.

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