The Berachain Mainnet is about to launch. How can you efficiently obtain BGT/BERA?

With new public chains like Movement and Fuel issuing tokens one after another, Berachain, leveraging its on-chain liquidity "flywheel" designed based on the Proof of Liquidity ( PoL ) mechanism, has become one of the few emerging public chains still receiving attention. However, for ordinary users, this also creates a "high wall" to participation:

From participating in pre-deposits to selecting DApps, calculating yield strategies, and participating in governance voting, each link poses high requirements for on-chain experience and operational capabilities. This hinders most users from maximizing their opportunities to capture BERA, and currently, there are almost no available simplified tools.

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

This article will start from the emerging ecological demands represented by Berachain and, in conjunction with the core design of the StakeStone Berachain Vault, explore the potential and value of this product in lowering barriers and optimizing yield management.

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

The core innovation of Berachain is the Proof-of-Liquidity ( POL ) mechanism. Users must provide liquidity to specific liquidity pools 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 validator nodes delegated by BGT holders.

This operating logic is very similar to Curve's ve model. Berachain can be simply understood as a "public chain version of Curve" or a public chain operating based on the ve model.

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

Berachain integrates this logic deeply into the underlying architecture of the chain, creating a highly collaborative "community of interests" among users, validating nodes, and DApps:

Ideally, the success of the validating nodes and DApps is aligned. The former is motivated to allocate more BGT to DApps with high transaction volumes and strong activity, while the DApps can attract more users to participate in liquidity pools by increasing incentive rewards for LP users, resulting in more substantial returns from these high-transaction-volume pools.

As more users flood into the liquidity pool due to high returns, the governance support and liquidity scale of the DApp further increase, thereby securing more BGT emission rights. This continuously expanding liquidity and governance weight not only strengthens the scale of the protocol but also, in turn, attracts more users and funds into the ecosystem, gradually forming a strong positive feedback loop.

But new problems arise. Once the Berachain Mainnet is launched, how should ordinary users determine and choose where to provide liquidity to maximize their returns?

Whether it is the selection of validator nodes, the selection of ecological projects, or the selection of liquidity pools, each layer of choice faces the need for in-depth research into dozens of options. This undoubtedly creates a "high wall" for participants.

Compared to Curve, the Berachain ecosystem undoubtedly needs a whole ecosystem of projects to serve users. Among them, the voting delegation platform Convex and the one-stop yield platform Yearn.finance will also be indispensable components to address the core pain points of ordinary users on Berachain.

Typical user dilemmas include:

• Information asymmetry: The yield conditions and governance weight distribution of different DApps/liquidity pools are in dynamic change. Retail investors need to invest time and effort to track and study the dynamics of each project to make optimal choices.
• Disadvantage of scale effect: The liquidity contribution of individual retail investors is relatively small, making it difficult to compete with project parties or professional players with large capital volumes in the process of competing 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 can be quite challenging for ordinary users, creating a high barrier to entry. A slight misstep may lead to missing out on the best opportunities, such as failing to adjust voting direction in time or reallocating liquidity, which can directly affect overall returns.

Under this demand, the full-chain liquidity asset protocol StakeStone has launched an innovative product designed specifically for the Berachain ecosystem, the Berachain Vault, which has become the earliest one-stop Berachain mining service platform officially recommended by Berachain in the entire market.

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

In the context of DeFi, a "Vault" is an automated investment strategy designed to simplify the user experience, where users only need to deposit assets, and the protocol automatically executes a series of financial transactions to maximize returns through various strategy combinations. However, traditional Vault products, while offering convenient asset management, have significant limitations in terms of yield appreciation and liquidity release.

On one hand, users typically deposit non-yielding underlying native assets such as ETH, which, despite having high market recognition, cannot directly generate returns; on the other hand, liquidity is often locked after depositing into the Vault, making it difficult to utilize further and limiting the investment flexibility for users.

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, allowing them not only to capture basic earnings from PoS staking but also to further enhance returns through liquidity mining, lending, and other combination strategies, maximizing users' investment returns.

That extends the thinking; if, based on this, the liquidity locked in the Vault is also released in the form of Vault LP Tokens, and allows participation in various DeFi yield scenarios, wouldn't that maximize the stacking of multi-layered yields?

Taking the newly launched Berachain StakeStone Vault as an example, it is an innovative product that not only continues the asset management functions of the Vault but also completely opens up all dimensions of multiple income streams for users through the innovation of Vault + Vault LP Token:

• Wrap the LP assets of Berachain Vault into interest-bearing assets: Allow users who want to participate in the Berachain ecosystem to deposit ETH, STONE, and other LP assets ( for interest-bearing or non-interest-bearing ). After the Vault receives the assets, it maximizes returns by utilizing liquidity mining and governance yield strategies under the POL mechanism, targeting specific liquidity scenarios, and based on this, wraps them into interest-bearing Vault LP Tokens ( such as beraSTONE ).

• Based on the encapsulated yield-bearing assets, a DeFi yield combination can be created: subsequently, Vault LP Tokens can be utilized in various mature DeFi infrastructures on Ethereum, resulting in a brand new unique parallel universe structure, where the sources of yield are on other chains like Berachain while the yield-generating activities occur on the Ethereum Mainnet. This structure takes into account the high yields of the new chain and the abundant funds and mature DeFi infrastructure of the Ethereum Mainnet, thus having the potential to become a new paradigm in the DeFi market.

In the design mechanism of Stakestone, the encapsulated Vault LP Token has top-notch composability just like ETH------it can participate in Uniswap liquidity mining, Aave/Morpho collateral lending, and even be split into PT and YT in Pendle, further magnifying returns.

Therefore, if we delve deeper, the true innovation of the StakeStone Berachain Vault lies in linking an asset through secondary utilization and deep release, connecting the emerging ecosystem of Berachain with the mature networks of Ethereum ( or other EVM chains ), forming a "multi-level yield" flywheel effect:

• First layer of earnings, PoS earnings from underlying interest-bearing assets: Users can deposit ETH to obtain STONE and other full-chain liquid assets, covering the underlying PoS earnings of ETH;
• Second layer yield, POL yield of the Berachain ecosystem: STONE deposited into StakeStone Berachain Vault, earning liquidity mining rewards under the POL mechanism in the Berachain ecosystem, and further packaging this layer of yield as Vault LP Token ( like beraSTONE );
• Third layer income, diversified DeFi strategy income on Ethereum: The Vault LP Token in the form of beraSTONE can be further increased on Ethereum through strategies such as leverage and liquidity mining;

In this way, by combining the ecological characteristics of Berachain with the diversified on-chain yield scenarios of Ethereum, StakeStone Berachain Vault achieves multiple repurposing of assets from emerging markets to mature ecosystems, maximizing returns while thoroughly releasing liquidity potential, significantly enhancing the utilization efficiency of a single asset, and bringing higher capital liquidity and market recognition to the Berachain ecosystem.

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

During the event, users can participate in a total reward pool of 15 million STO by holding or using beraSTONE and beraSBTC, which includes 8.25 million Bera-Wave points rewards distributed in the form of ( points, with TGE settlement of ) and an additional reward of 4 million STO during the Boyco event; in addition, 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.

So how to earn Bera-Wave points? It is mainly divided into basic point rules + DeFi acceleration rewards. The referral reward mechanism can be seen in the specific process below ):

1. Basic Point Rules:

• Holding 1 beraSTONE, you can earn 1 point per hour;
• Holding 1 beraSBTC, you can earn 25 points per hour. ( points accumulate hourly, no additional operations required );

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

• Uniswap provides liquidity: 5 times rewards on basic 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 ( must remain active ).
• More protocol support: In the future, protocols such as Pendle and Morpho will be launched, providing more reward opportunities and further enhancing points earnings.

Overall, these rewards cover Berachain PoL, the Boyco protocol, and future ecological benefits, as well as the future token airdrop of StakeStone. It can be described as "one fish, multiple eats", providing users with comprehensive participation opportunities in Berachain & StakeStone. The specific operation process is also very simple:

1. Enter the StakeStone Vault interface and click "Deposit" to enter the StakeStone Berachain Vault interface.

2. Connect wallet in the upper right corner.

3. Enter the invitation code to receive a 10% points boost reward, share your personal invitation code on Twitter to get more commission rewards (20%)

4. Deposit ETH/STONE/WETH to receive beraSTONE; deposit SBTC/WBTC/cbBTC/BTCB to receive beraSBTC( not yet opened ), holding beraSTONE or beraSBTC can earn points.

• Only Ethereum Mainnet assets are allowed. If not, please click "Switch Network" to switch to the Ethereum Mainnet.
• Select the asset to deposit on the left, enter the amount, and then click the "Deposit" button, and "Confirm" in the wallet.

5. Participate in DeFi protocols to earn more rewards.

It is worth noting that the current Berachain has not yet launched its Mainnet, so the initial StakeStone Berachain Vault