# What is Bifrost

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Bifrost is a **staking yield layer** that establishes a standardized multi-chain liquid staking rewards infrastructure, delivering composable crypto-native yields for stablecoins, RWAs, and DeFi across various blockchains. Its modular design allows developers to tap into multi-chain staking rewards with one integration, greatly lowering development costs and enhancing user simplicity.

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The easiest way to understand Bifrost is to see it as a derivative issuer that provides liquidity for all pledged assets, issuing corresponding shadow assets during the bonding period of the original assets. At the same time, the shadow asset is a fungible Token that can be circulated in different DEXs, pools, protocols and across chains.

As a DeFi protocol, Bifrost is aiming to solve the following issues in PoS ecosystems:

* [x] The paradox between **staking** rewards and **DeFi** yields
* [x] The balance between **staking/circulating tokens** and **security** of PoS chains
* [x] **Staking** rewards in **cross-chain** scenario

According to the questions above, Bifrost's solution **vToken** (liquid staking **voucher Token**) enables users to convert their PoS tokens into vTokens in order to obtain staking liquidity and staking rewards synchronously, without barriers in cross-chain scenarios.

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### Why Bifrost?

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Have a look to the blog article: [A Deep Dive into Bifrost App Chain Liquid Staking Strategy](https://bifrost.io/blog/article-9)
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#### **Liquid-Staking**

Mint vTokens on Bifrost (equals stake through Bifrost), you can control your underlying staking assets during the locked period.

#### **Automatic Staking Management**

Bifrost Staking protocols run under the Bifrost pallets, earning staking rewards every era, without centralized risks.

#### Reduced Unstaking Period

Bifrost SLP helps users to realize the possibility of early redemption by matching the real-time staking quantity with the redemption quantity at the protocol layer in the form of a queue. Theoretically, it can achieve faster redemption.

#### **Extra Staking Returns + DeFi Yields**

Bifrost offers delegate staking for users by selecting a set of validators and rebalancing the rewards to give more profitable solutions. By holding vTokens, you will have chances to head into a world of yield scenarios.


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