Uploaded May 2026 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
Jito Foundation Head of Institutional Growth Kevin Beardsley on how he explains liquid staking to bankers and institutions:
"The trade-off that they solve – rather than what they do or how they work – is that if you're holding Solana or Ethereum, you have a choice:
You have to make a trade-off. Do you want to lock it up in a staking contract and earn revenue from the ecosystem? They call it staking yield.
Or do you want to have your asset usable for swaps, for collateral, or whatever you might like to do? Liquid staked tokens solve that trade-off, or at least try to solve that trade-off by allowing you to have a representation of the asset that still accumulates the value of the rewards, while still having it be fully liquid."
– Kevin Beardsley on the Talking Tokens podcast with Jacquelyn Melinek
Jito Foundation Head of Institutional Growth Kevin Beardsley on how he explains liquid staking to bankers and institutions:
"The trade-off that they solve – rather than what they do or how they work – is that if you're holding Solana or Ethereum, you have a choice:
You have to make a trade-off. Do you want to lock it up in a staking contract and earn revenue from the ecosystem? They call it staking yield.
Or do you want to have your asset usable for swaps, for collateral, or whatever you might like to do? Liquid staked tokens solve that trade-off, or at least try to solve that trade-off by allowing you to have a representation of the asset that still accumulates the value of the rewards, while still having it be fully liquid."
– Kevin Beardsley on the Talking Tokens podcast with Jacquelyn Melinek
