A first in DeFi: Bitcoin can now earn staking yield without ever becoming public. Until today, earning yield on shielded assets meant giving up the privacy to do it. Your funds had to leave the privacy pool, pass through a public wallet, and enter the protocol in the open. Privacy and yield were a tradeoff. Endur removes that tradeoff. STRK and strkBTC can now be staked directly from the privacy pool. The position compounds, the yield accrues, and the funds never surface publicly at any point. Where we stand: Private staking ✅ Private unstaking via DEX ( @avnu_fi ) ✅ Private native unstaking 🔧 Privacy that works while your capital works. Live now at app.endur.fi You'll need a privacy compatible wallet, Ready or Xverse.

Starknet VIP is now wired into Endur. VIP is an invite-only service from Starknet for eligible Starknet accounts. Starknet decides who qualifies based on the funds and volume an address holds, and shares that list with us. When you connect a wallet on Endur, we check the address against the list. If it’s on it, a pop-up appears and takes you to vip.starknet.io. Eligibility, onboarding and programme benefits are all managed by Starknet. Learn more at vip.starknet.io

Starknet’s first governance vote on becoming an independent post-quantum L1 is open until 22 October. The vote asks whether the transition should be researched. A Yes starts a research effort that leads to detailed proposals and further votes. A No keeps post-quantum work on the current L2 path. A transition itself would need its own governance process. STRK remains the token in either case, and the Ethereum bridges stay open. Voting power comes from staked STRK, vSTRK on Starknet and STRK on Ethereum. If you hold or stake STRK, cast your vote at governance.starknet.io before it closes.

STRK is up [257%] in a month. Over the same window, the xSTRK exchange rate kept compounding every epoch, so staked positions grew in STRK terms on top of the price move. Those rewards come from issuance. Starknet mints new STRK each epoch and distributes it to stakers, so unstaked STRK holds a smaller share of total supply with every epoch that passes. Native staking has a cost during a move like this. Unbonding takes 7-8 days, and the position can’t be sold while it sits in that window. xSTRK is the liquid version of the same position. You stake through Endur, rewards accrue to the exchange rate at [6.5%] APY, and the token trades on @avnu_fi and @EkuboProtocol at any time. A dex exit settles at the market price, which can sit slightly below the redemption rate. A redemption through Endur settles at the full rate, typically in 1-2 days when incoming deposits cover the queue and 7-8 days when they don’t. xSTRK is also accepted as collateral on @vesuxyz and as a deposit in @trovesfi vaults, so the staked position stays usable across Starknet.

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Private liquid staking on Starknet already exists. STRK and strkBTC stake straight from the privacy pool, and the position never surfaces publicly. An L1 move would change the layer underneath. STARK proofs rest on hash functions, not elliptic curves, which is why Starknet can aim for post-quantum security at all. Privacy is live today. Quantum resistance is the 2027 target.

Stake strkBTC through Endur and you hold xstrkBTC. The balance stays flat and the yield shows up in the exchange rate, 2.10% APY right now. xstrkBTC is also collateral on Vesu, 60% max LTV against USDC. Same BTC, staked and borrowable at once.

When you unstake, you're not on one fixed timer. You're in a queue that resolves one of two ways. If new deposits are coming in when you request a withdrawal, we net your redemption against that incoming flow. No unbonding wait, typically 1-2 days to settle. This is the common case, most of the time deposit volume covers the queue. If deposits don't cover it, your redemption falls back to Starknet's native unbonding path. That's a 7-8 day protocol-level wait, and in rare cases closer to 14 days under heavy withdrawal demand. Native unbonding also carries Starknet's attestation rule, missed attestation zeroes that epoch's rewards, no partial credit. Which path you get depends on deposit flow at the moment you request, not on anything you control. We don't publish a guarantee on the fast path because we can't, it's a function of two-sided flow, not a fixed protocol parameter. If you're sizing a position where exit timing matters, plan for the native window. The fast path is common. It isn't the floor.

Effective borrow APY on the xSTRK/STRK Re7 pool is -5.26%. STRK debt against xSTRK collateral, $50.95M drawn against a $60M cap. Vesu's interest rate curves rise with utilization. At $50.95M of $60M, the curve alone should be pricing a positive rate, a real cost paid by the borrower. The -5.26% comes from a reward program layered on top of that curve, paid to borrowers to build volume in this specific pool. xSTRK's exchange rate appreciation is a separate mechanism. It comes from staking rewards and keeps accruing regardless of what any lending market does. The reward program on this Vesu pool has its own budget and its own duration, set by Re7, not by Endur's staking mechanics. If the reward program winds down or gets resized, the borrow rate reverts toward the underlying curve. At current utilization, that's a positive number, not -5.26%.

Your xSTRK gets a different max LTV on @vesuxyz depending on what you borrow against it. 87% for STRK, 68% for USDC, 65% for USDT. Borrow STRK and the only variable in your health factor is the xSTRK exchange rate, which only moves up as rewards accrue. Collateral and debt share an underlying, so a STRK price move hits both sides equally. Borrow USDC and health factor now depends on STRK/USD. A drawdown cuts your collateral value while the debt stays fixed. Vesu curators price that into a lower LTV. Our BTC LSTs follow the same pattern. xWBTC borrows WBTC at 92%, USDC at 78%. xstrkBTC borrows strkBTC at 94%, WBTC at 72%, USDC at 60%. Each step away from the underlying costs LTV. Which debt asset you pick is the biggest lever on how much you can borrow, and how far the price can fall before you're liquidated.

Borrow rate on the largest @vesuxyz pool carrying xSTRK collateral is currently -5.36%. Not near zero, negative. Borrowing STRK against xSTRK pays the borrower, on top of xSTRK compounding at 6.55% underneath. $53.12M of the $60M cap is already borrowed against. Same structure shows up smaller on the BTC side. xtBTC against USDC on Re7's core pool borrows at -0.39% while xtBTC accrues 2.10%. xWBTC against USDC prices similarly. The spread exists because the collateral is productive and the debt market is pricing that in. xSTRK isn't sitting idle as collateral, it's still earning through the exchange rate while it backs the loan. A lending market that ignores that mispriced borrow demand against it, and utilization on the STRK pool shows the market has found it. This isn't a yield strategy Endur invented. It's what happens when collateral that appreciates gets priced correctly in a lending market. The LST just has to be composable enough to get there.

Most liquid staking tokens outside Starknet still rebase. Balance goes up, price stays near 1:1 with the underlying. It looks simple until another protocol has to account for it. A rebasing balance changes outside of a transfer. Every integration touching that token, a lending market, an AMM pool, a vault, has to either explicitly support rebase accounting or silently break. Vesu positions, Ekubo LP ranges, Troves vault shares all assume a balance that only moves when the holder moves it. Rebasing violates that assumption by design. Exchange rate appreciation doesn't. xWBTC, xtBTC and xsBTC hold a constant balance. The redeemable value against the underlying BTC grows through the exchange rate, not the token count. A lending market reading the balance sees the same number it saw yesterday. The yield is priced in on redemption, not distributed as new tokens. That's what makes these LSTs collateral on Vesu, LP pairs on Ekubo, and deposit assets in Troves vaults without special-casing. No rebase-aware wrapper, no separate accounting path. The token behaves like any other ERC-20 to every contract that touches it, and the yield still accrues underneath. Composability isn't a property you add to an LST after the fact. It's a consequence of how the yield is represented in the first place.

96% of all wrapped BTC on Starknet is not staked. Checked it against the actual token contracts, not just Endur's own numbers. WBTC, solvBTC, strkBTC, tBTC, LBTC. 971 BTC total sitting on this chain. Only 39 of it is staked through Endur. The other 932, north of 70 million dollars at current prices, is just sitting there earning nothing. And it's not only the staking yield that idle BTC is missing. Every curated Vesu market Endur plugs into, the ones with borrow rates under 2% and LTVs up to 95%, only takes the staked version as collateral. Raw wrapped BTC doesn't get in. Staking is the ticket to both sides, the yield and the borrowing power. That's not a small gap. That's almost the entire supply sitting outside the system that would pay it to be there.