Organization Name – Milkyway Zone
Category – 
Banking & DeFi
MilkyWay is a pioneering liquid staking and restaking platform purpose-built for the emerging modular blockchain ecosystem. Since its debut in December 2023 on Celestia, it has offered the promise of …one stake, infinite impact—liquid staking, curated DeFi vaults, and soon, real‑world spend via the Way Card. Users deposit base tokens (like TIA, BABY, INIT), receive 1:1 liquid tokens (milkTIA, milkBABY, milkINIT) and can use them across integrated DeFi applications without forfeiting staking rewards. MilkyWay auto‑compounds yields within vaults that rebalance risk‑awarely across lending markets, liquidity pools, yield farms, and more—even paying off everyday purchases through future yield. At protocol level, it also supports modular restaking: builders seeking shared security can draw from these pooled assets and configure validation rules, while stakers can delegate to get boosted returns. The platform leverages CosmWasm on Osmosis, Cosmos SDK with IBC, a multi‑sig custody system connected via a daemon across chains, and a modular architecture enabling highly flexible staking workflows. Underpinning it is MILK, the native utility and governance token with a fixed supply of 1 billion. MILK accrues to stakeholders, AVS integrators, community contributors, and ecosystem growth initiatives; it supports security, gas, and treasury coordination. Incentivization extends via mPoints—a reward program for staking, bridging, restaking, referrals—with a MassDrop planned around the H1 2025 token launch. MilkyWay’s debut vaulted over $51 M TVL within two months; within months it grew its asset coverage to Celestia, Babylon, Initia, and deeper DeFi links with Camelot, Osmosis, Demex and others. Governance, security, and integrations have evolved under community‑driven design. Support for multi‑asset restaking (up to BTC, ETH, stablecoins) and custom AVS rules sharpens its developer appeal. Standard features like audits, bug bounties, and multisig infrastructure guard safety. MilkyWay’s on‑chain architecture and tooling drive interoperability and capital efficiency: stakers earn, build with confidence, and spend via future yield. Financially, it closed a $5 M seed round in April 2024 backed by YZi Labs, Polychain, Hack VC, LongHash, Crypto.com Capital, Mustafa Al‑Bassam, Kenny Li and others—setting stage for ecosystem growth. Token generation began in April 2025 aligned with Binance Wallet TGE; MILK now trades (~$0.05) across exchanges such as Bitget, KuCoin, and Bybit. Alongside technical launches (milkBABY and milkINIT in April 2025), MilkyWay positions itself as the connective tissue in modular architecture—bridging staking, DeFi yield, developer security and real‑world finance via earn‑maximize‑pay. Its multi‑chain, composable, extendable model positions it uniquely: not only does it simplify staking, but it also underwrites new apps with shared security. With modular chains gaining momentum, MilkyWay stands ready to onboard more assets, rollups, real swaps, spending rails, and governance tools. It represents the next frontier of liquid staking—evolving from single‑chain novelty to holistic capital orchestration across blockspace. As modular ecosystems advance, MilkyWay offers a foundational layer enabling capital fluidity, shared security, builder confidence, and financial inclusion for retail and institutions, blurring lines between banking, DeFi, and staking with a modular infrastructure-first vision. Read More
Banking & DeFi
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