Ankr Staking provides a top-tier way to stake BNB by granting instant liquidity via the ankrBNB token. This avoids locking tokens on the BNB Chain network, letting you use staked asset value to earn multiple reward layers on DeFi platforms and boost ROI potential. Activities like yield farming, arbitrage trading, and lending become possible with your staked assets.

*ankrBNB is a reward-bearing token, so the fair value of 1 ankrBNB token against BNB grows over time as staking rewards build up.

Liquid Staking fixes capital inefficiency in (Nominated) Proof-of-stake networks, offering extra rewards on staked BNB and new yield farming strategies. The main parts of BNB Liquid Staking are:

• Liquidity mining opportunities arise from providing liquidity to decentralized exchange pools.
• Farming rewards for liquidity providers: Liquid Staking offers yield farming strategies for users to join liquidity pools, earning trading fees and governance tokens. These new LP tokens create another earnings layer.
• Staking rewards on farmed tokens: Users can reinvest farmed LP tokens into more staking options. This repeatable process stacks layers of farming and staking rewards quickly.
• Yield aggregators/vaults automate yield farming rewards and compound returns with almost no user effort, maximizing passive income.
• More trading opportunities exist due to ankrBNB’s elastic supply. You could buy ankrBNB at a discount on a Decentralized Exchange and redeem it (unstake) on Ankr Staking to get its fair value back in up to 7–10 days (the BNB Liquid Staking unbonding period).

Get an easier staking experience without needing technical skills. Liquid Staking makes staking as simple as a swap: trade your BNB for the reward-bearing ankrBNB token. Enhanced decentralization means our BNB Liquid Staking will not rely only on Ankr validator nodes. Ankr Staking will pick several suitable and reliable BNB Chain validators to make BNB Liquid Staking as decentralized as possible. This ensures Ankr does not give any party more influence over the BNB Chain network, as BNB is spread across many nodes. The goal is for Ankr governance to decide target allocations to different validator nodes.

Staking with BNB Liquid Staking lets you help boost the network’s overall security. Ankr’s BNB staking system distributes tokens intelligently across the BNB Chain ecosystem to aid optimal decentralization. Diversity and decentralization of active validators keep the network as secure as possible.

To unstake your BNB, select the “unstake” option anytime on the Ankr Staking platform. After choosing unstake, wait up to 7–10 days to claim funds. This supports a robust price stability mechanism for BNB Liquid Staking, where price deviations of ankrBNB from fair value create trading opportunities. You can exploit these by redeeming ankrBNB (unstaking BNB) or minting ankrBNB (staking BNB). For example, buying ankrBNB at a discount on a DEX and unstaking it on Ankr Staking at fair value could generate profit. Thus, ankrBNB price stability depends less on liquidity pool size and rewards. Borrowing and lending ankrBNB tokens also allow users to borrow against ankrBNB assets for assets like BNB to restake or use in other earning strategies, or lend ankrBNB assets for interest paid by borrowers.