Welcome to MilkyWay

What is MilkyWay?

MilkyWay is a an application specific layer 1 blockchain designed around two cornerstone features: Liquid Staking (LSD) and Restaking. These enable stakeholders to keep their staked assets fluid while also extending security to multiple offchain or specialized onchain services. Traditional proof-of-stake (PoS) networks require tokens to remain locked to support the base chain, preventing them from being used in other DeFi environments or bridging scenarios. By contrast, MilkyWay’s LSD model allows stakers to deposit tokens(such as TIA, BABY, or INIT) and receive LSD tokens (milkTIA, milkBABY, milkINIT). These LSD tokens can move freely across crosschain DeFi or bridging networks, ensuring users retain flexibility.

Restaking further enhances this process by letting the same staked collateral back external services. In many blockchains, oracles, bridges, rollup sequencers, and data availability layers each have to build an entire validator set or trust model. This fragmentation of security is time consuming, expensive, and often less secure overall. MilkyWay’s restaking approach offers a single, modular environment where stakers can “opt in” to provide security for various services, known as Actively Validated Services (AVSs). This structure is engineeered with the Cosmos SDK and CometBFT (formerly Tendermint), allowing the chain to handle advanced slash logic, LSD accounting, and bridging interactions.

History and expansion

MilkyWay launched in December 2023 with Celestia liquid staking (milkTIA) and quickly became a trusted portal for TIA holders. Phase 2 extended the same model to modular ecosystems such as Babylon and Initia while introducing an opt-in restaking layer so that service developers can rely on a shared security pool and stakers are given an opportunity to earn boosted yields. Since then, we have grown into a wide-ranging solution that unifies liquidity and security for modular blockchains.

By consolidating trust and security into one flexible pool of staked assets, MilkyWay simplifies things for developers while also letting users earn more through flexible DeFi opportunities. Our aim is to deliver efficient security “plug-ins” that can solve the fragmentation of trust in blockchain networks and help users capitalize on extra yields. We expect this framework to boost the modular ecosystem’s growth, letting many services benefit from a common staked pool.

Who is MilkyWay for?

• Stakers earn base chain rewards while retaining full liquidity.

• Restakers opt in to AVSs and capture extra yield.

• Service builders secure services without bootstrapping a fresh validator set.

• Operators and validators monetise existing infrastructure across multiple AVSs.

• Liquidity providers and investors access a unified, high TVL DeFi environment.

Join our community

Join us on Discord and Telegram—we welcome everyone whether you're a product user, AVS builder, operator, validator, or investor. For support, reach out to us at [email protected].