Cardano's Liquid Staking Standard
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Lava retweeted
Our founder @nickmilne0 sat down with @astroboysoup to talk LADA and where Lava is headed. 🌋
The short version: keep your ADA staked, and give it more to do across Cardano DeFi.
Worth the listen 👇
LADA is interesting because it is not trying to replace Cardano staking.
It is trying to make staked ADA more useful inside DeFi.
If @lava can turn that into DEX liquidity, lending collateral and vault strategies, ADA holders get more to do without giving up the staking layer.
Lava retweeted
9 years.
Happy birthday Cardano 🎂
Feels like a pretty good time to be building.
Lava retweeted
L-ADA works with @atrium_lab from day one.
The ADA underneath is delegated to their pools, keeps staking, and the rewards go into the rate.
Lava retweeted
Lava is officially part of Genesis 26 at Draper University 🌋
We're building L-ADA, the DeFi-facing form of staked ADA, keeping your staking rewards while unlocking full DeFi utility.
Very grateful to @draper_u and @OrionFund for the opportunity.
Time to build.
@lava
Lava retweeted
Cardano was so ahead of the curve that Ouroboros introduced what many protocols are only now beginning to understand.
We were ahead, but to stay relevant as DeFi grows, Cardano’s liquid staking must evolve to support derivatives like L-ADA so users can secure the network, earn staking rewards, and put that liquidity to work for additional DeFi yield 🤝
This is what we’re bringing to Cardano.
Lava retweeted
A chain where everyone stakes and nobody deploys capital is not a DeFi chain.
Cardano should be a DeFi chain.
That means deeper collateral markets, more liquid base assets, stronger borrowing demand, native stablecoin activity and BTC liquidity entering the system.
Right now, too much Cardano capital still ends its journey at staking, while DeFi has to build around whatever liquidity remains available.
There are over 21.7B ADA staked, worth roughly $5.4B, while Cardano DeFi TVL sits around $129M.
And this is the gap everyone building here should try to fill.
Cardano needs standards built specifically for DeFi, where staked assets can become liquid, usable, composable capital across the network.
One fix is CLSS.
Lava retweeted
We are all connected through Cardano 💙
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Lava retweeted
Cardano won’t become the leading DeFi destination if most capital stays idle in staking instead of flowing through dApps.
We can’t keep asking for more on-chain activity while the strongest incentives reward people for simply staking their $ADA or CNTs.
This ecosystem was built for so much more:
Lava retweeted
We could not let talent go to waste on Cardano.
We’ve just onboarded Zanna to LAVA to handle integrations and deploys!
This means that every single stakeable CNT on Cardano will be integrated swiftly into LAVA.
Everything will become liquid, tradable, compoundable and DeFi ready → Yield will soar.
Honestly, I regret contributing so much to the Cardano ecosystem just to end up with a few thousand USD.
Maybe that’s not a lot for some people, but I reinvested over 50k ADA back into the ecosystem (not even counting degen trades). I never saw real usage, never received funding, and spent 4 years building without any meaningful revenue.
If I had just held and sold at $0.90, I would’ve walked away with ~$45k.
Instead, I chose to believe in Cardano.
Lesson learned: I was stupid enough to put belief over my own interests.
Never again will I invest this much time and money without a clear, secured return.
Still, I met great people along the way and that’s the only part I don’t regret. I’ll continue to support them.
Lava retweeted
Deeper liquidity, stronger collateral, broader Cardano market activity: everything loses meaning once your assets are locked behind staking.
We unlock them for you, creating a synthetic representation of the staked asset: we call it L-Assets:
$ADA → $LADA
$STRIKE → $LSTRIKE
$IAG → $LIAG
