Quicksilver: Liquid Staking in Cosmos
summary
Quicksilver proposes a liquid staking system that unlocks roughly $5 billion of currently bonded capital and can raise average Cosmos bonded ratios from ~60% toward 100% while accepting up to 5% slashing risk. It implements intent signaling with on‑ and off‑chain proofs to let users weight delegations, preserves native validator selection, and adds governance by proxy so tokenized staked assets can vote. For airdrops it supports standard distributions and proposes modules or explicit airdrops to tokenized holders for gamified claims.
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chapters (9)
- 0:00Introduction
- 0:44Liquid staking importance
- 2:48Staking dilemma and efficiency
- 5:13Quicksilver’s goals
- 5:57Validator selection sovereignty
- 7:43Intent signaling for delegation
- 9:10Governance by proxy
- 12:21Airdrops in liquid staking
- 14:54Summary
