May 3, 2025

Stacking DAO Cycle Update: Earn Stacking yield Daily + New stSTX-STX Flex Pool

Stacking DAO Cycle Update: Earn Stacking yield Daily + New stSTX-STX Flex Pool

Stacking DAO Cycle updates is the perfect format for the community to explore the latest news and milestones.

Important new feature for stSTX and stSTXbtc: no more waiting for 2-week cycles to receive rewards. Now, you can earn yield daily.

With this upgrade, users no longer need to wait 14 days for rewards, yield is now earned daily, enhancing the utility of stSTX and stSTXbtc. Check out the thread to learn how continuous yield works with Stacking DAO.

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The Stacks community keeps adding liquidity to earn stacking rewards, pushing Stacking DAO to a new all-time high with 77M STX deposited and over 42,000 holders. As Kevin Williams noted, about 4.49% of the total STX supply is now on Stacking DAO, leaving plenty of liquidity still to unlock.

Around 4.49% of the total circulating supply of @Stacks $STX - or 68.18M out of 1.52B - is currently staked through @StackingDao! pic.twitter.com/YBZZYpSUFV

— Kevin Williams (@KevinWilliams) April 24, 2025

DeFi Updates Related to Stacking DAO

The new Bitflow stSTX-STX Flex Pool, which uses a variable midpoint, is live. It makes early unstacking much more affordable, and liquidity providers can earn an additional 10%+ APY on top of their stacking yield.

Unstacking before a cycle ends just got a lot cheaper — thanks to @Bitflow_Finance new flex pool.

Earn a higher yield with up to 10% APY by migrating your stSTX-STX liquidity to the most efficient pool.

Here is everything you need to know about the new stSTX-STX pool. 🧵 ⬇️ pic.twitter.com/PwnGrRfxwg

— Stacking DAO (@StackingDao) April 29, 2025

Liquid Stacking tokens (LSTs) like stSTX and stSTXbtc are becoming increasingly valuable as collateral for Stacks. With Stacking DAO LSTs offering yields of up to 10% APY, it’s now possible to earn a net positive yield by borrowing at low rates—such as USDh on Zest—at this moment.

stSTX & stSTXbtc are the perfect collateral for loans on @ZestProtocol.

Earn up to 10% yield from Stacking while borrowing against LSTs.

You could currently borrow USDh at 1.95% while stSTXbtc earns 7.75% — a 5.8% net yield as you borrow. pic.twitter.com/SL6AUl4Fhw

— Stacking DAO (@StackingDao) April 22, 2025

Other initiatives and news related to Stacking DAO

Many in the Stacks ecosystem are attending conferences in Dubai, including Staking Summit and Token2049—but most importantly, Muneeb is catching up with some Stacking DAO folks.

bitcoin builders in dubai 🟧 pic.twitter.com/BePkZxxIdG

— muneeb.btc (@muneeb) April 29, 2025

Users shouldn't have to wait an entire cycle to unstack their STX, and Stacking DAO is helping push the Friedger proposal to remove the cool-down cycle, making flexible and efficient Stacking a reality.

What if users didn’t have to wait an entire cycle to unstack their STX?

Right now, switching between pools is slow and costly.

Stacking DAO is helping drive the Friedger proposal to remove the cool-down cycle, making flexible and efficient Stacking a reality. pic.twitter.com/Ei9Z6WamII

— Stacking DAO (@StackingDao) April 28, 2025

Want to catch up on the latest in the Stacks ecosystem? Don’t miss the latest edition of the 'What’s Happening on Stacks' thread:

What's happening on @Stacks?

Here is everything you need to know about from the last few weeks. 🧵 ⬇️ pic.twitter.com/ToX678R2TR

— Stacking DAO (@StackingDao) April 21, 2025

The Stacking DAO docs are now available in Chinese, making it easier and more accessible for users to understand how the protocol works.

You can now read the Stacking DAO docs in Chinese — just head to the site and select the language option you prefer. pic.twitter.com/CXMCA7B9Gu

— Stacking DAO (@StackingDao) April 18, 2025

Finally, Stacking DAO has processed another ~108463 STX (for stSTX) and ~0.44 sBTC (for stSTXbtc) in Stacking rewards.

1)stSTX reward transaction

2)stSTX reward transaction

3)stSTXbtc reward transaction

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