Kintsu: Unlocking Staked Yield Without Sacrificing Utility
In the race to bring DeFi to the masses, some teams aren’t just building, they’re redefining the rails we build on. Kintsu is one of them.
A long-time partner in the Levr Lab, Kintsu is pioneering composable liquid staking, giving users the ability to stake assets like MON or HYPE to help secure networks without losing access to their liquidity.
Instead of choosing between staking yield and DeFi activity, Kintsu users can mint reward-bearing tokens like sMON or sHYPE, fungible ERC-20 tokens that grow in value as network rewards accumulate. This lets stakers participate in lending, trading, gaming, governance, and more… while continuing to earn staking yield in the background.
Kintsu unifies governance across chains: both sHYPE on Hyperliquid and sMON on Monad accrue to a single DAO, aligning incentives for users, validators, and builders under one transparent system.
With integrations across Monad, Hyperliquid, and more on the horizon, Kintsu isn’t just making staking better, they’re making it usable.
To celebrate our partnership, Levr is offering 1,000 PSP bonus claims to holders of the Kintsu Beta Access Pass in the Lab.
Whether you're deep in DeFi or just starting out, it's worth asking:
Why lock when you can stake & play?
