BENQI and Anchorage Digital Bring Institutional-Grade Liquid Staking to Avalanche
BENQI and Anchorage Digital Bring Institutional-Grade Liquid Staking to Avalanche
🏦 Institutions go live
Institutional adoption on Avalanche is moving from exploration to deployment. BENQI's partnership with Anchorage Digital now provides institutions with production-grade infrastructure for liquid staking.
Key features:
- Institutions can access $sAVAX and earn liquid staking yield
- Built with security and operational reliability standards
- Direct staking and minting through trusted institutional rails
Context: This partnership follows BENQI's consistent growth across its liquid staking and lending markets on Avalanche. Recent integrations include Binance Wallet support and participation in Avalanche's $1M Build Games competition.
The collaboration addresses institutional demand for secure, compliant access to DeFi yield opportunities while maintaining the flexibility of liquid staking tokens.
This is huge! @BinanceWallet users, BENQI is now one tap away. This integration is designed to help users move from custody to onchain activity faster, whether the goal is staking, swapping, or lending on Avalanche. Stake $AVAX, mint $sAVAX, and keep your capital flexible.
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BENQI is building for real world adoption on Avalanche, not just DeFi insiders. That’s why we partnered with @Anchorage Digital, giving institutions a clean path to stake AVAX, mint $sAVAX, and redeem directly through trusted rails. If you’re building on @avax, $sAVAX is the
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The institutions aren’t “exploring” anymore, they’re deploying live systems on @Avax. BENQI’s partnership with @Anchorage Digital extends that same production-grade standard to staking: institutions can access $sAVAX and earn liquid staking yield with a setup built for security
When @Anchorage Digital chose to partner with BENQI, a new world of institutional access to liquid staking and $sAVAX was unlocked. Anchorage clients can now stake $AVAX and mint $sAVAX directly, tapping into @avax’s leading LST and the liquidity, strategies and ecosystem
Anchorage Digital Integrates BENQI's sAVAX for Institutional Avalanche Staking
**Anchorage Digital has integrated BENQI's liquid staking solution**, enabling institutional clients to stake AVAX and mint sAVAX directly through their platform. **Key Integration Benefits:** - Seamless AVAX staking and sAVAX minting for institutional clients - Access to Avalanche's liquid staking ecosystem at institutional scale - Built on sAVAX's proven reliability and composability **BENQI's Growing Dominance:** - 23.3M AVAX currently staked (+5.7M month-over-month) - sAVAX represents 4.3% of all AVAX in circulation - Over 63,000 active stakers using the protocol This partnership extends **institutional-grade access** to Avalanche DeFi, allowing clients to earn staking rewards while maintaining liquidity for other DeFi activities across the ecosystem.
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