staked ETH (steth.pro) (STETH)

Did you know @RobinhoodApp stock tokens implement ERC-8056? 👀

Every stock token on Robinhood Chain carries a "UI multiplier" in the contract: the number of real off-chain shares each token represents (redeemable only by KYB'd authorized participants).

⚠️Why? When a stock pays a dividend, Robinhood doesn't mint new tokens or increase your balance. It reinvests the dividend and raises the multiplier, so each token quietly represents a claim on more shares. Same mechanism for stock splits.

➡️ The consequence: after the first dividend or split, 1 token no longer equals 1 share. Your on-chain balance never moves, only the multiplier does.

🔴 This is not intuitive. Devs have to be careful displaying these assets (the @chainlink feeds are already multiplier-adjusted, so it's raw balance x feed price; never apply the multiplier twice). And users should know what they're actually buying: on @Uniswap the token price will slowly drift above the real share price, and that's by design.

This is still aninteresting ex

stETH alone is bigger than all of wrapped Bitcoin.

LidoFinance's TVL is at ~$16.5B TVL, while WBTC (the biggest wrapped BTC product) sits at ~$7.3B.

One liquid staking token on Ethereum outweighs Bitcoin's entire wrapped-DeFi footprint, even though $BTC has a 6x bigger market cap than $ETH.

This means that BTC is underutilized in DeFi, and most of the supply is sitting idle.

Let me break down the reasons for this ↓

1/ The stETH precedent

Before liquid staking, ETH holders had a simple but annoying tradeoff.

Stake ETH and earn yield, or keep it liquid and use it across DeFi.

Once ETH was staked, it could earn, but that was basically all it could do. It couldn’t be used as collateral, traded, looped, or built into other products.

stETH fixed that issue. It turned a locked staking position into a liquid asset that could move through ETH DeFi.

Suddenly, staked ETH became collateral, trading liquidity, leverage fuel, a @pendle_fi asset, and eventually the base for restaking.

The reason it worked is simp

stETH alone is bigger than all of wrapped Bitcoin.

LidoFinance's TVL is at ~$16.5B TVL, while WBTC (the biggest wrapped BTC product) sits at ~$7.3B.

One liquid staking token on Ethereum outweighs Bitcoin's entire wrapped-DeFi footprint, even though $BTC has a 6x bigger market cap than $ETH.

This means that BTC is underutilized in DeFi, and most of the supply is sitting idle.

Let me break down the reasons for this ↓

1/ The stETH precedent

Before liquid staking, ETH holders had a simple but annoying tradeoff.

Stake ETH and earn yield, or keep it liquid and use it across DeFi.

Once ETH was staked, it could earn, but that was basically all it could do. It couldn’t be used as collateral, traded, looped, or built into other products.

stETH fixed that issue. It turned a locked staking position into a liquid asset that could move through ETH DeFi.

Suddenly, staked ETH became collateral, trading liquidity, leverage fuel, a @pendle_fi asset, and eventually the base for restaking.

The reason it worked is simp