Welcome to MilkyWay

What is MilkyWay?

MilkyWay began with a simple promise: one stake, infinite impact. We delivered on that promise with liquid staking, expanded it through curated DeFi vaults, and are now closing the loop with real-world spending. The protocol lets any onchain deposit—native tokens or stablecoins—flow through three connected stages:

• Earn - stake or deposit without losing liquidity

• Maximize – route idle capital into high-impact, chain agnostic yield strategies

• Pay – pay merchants directly while tomorrow’s rewards repay the bill

Everything happens under a single interface. Users never stitch together bridges or farms, and MilkyWay abstracts that complexity at the protocol layer.

Earn — Staking Without Lock-up

Traditional staking forces holders to lock assets and wait through long unbonding periods. MilkyWay mints 1:1 liquid receipts—milkTIA, milkBABY, milkINIT—so users collect block rewards while tokens stay liquid. Stablecoin deposits are streamlined to vaults integrated with high-impact DeFi strategies, earning a boosted yield for users.

Maximize — Vaults That Seek the Best Net Yield

Deposits move into vaults that allocate assets to pre-approved venues—lending markets, DEX liquidity, delta-neutral farms, yield farms—then rebalances according to onchain risk metrics. Automated monitoring allows the protocol to mitigate risk while providing optimized yield strategies for users.

Pay — Future Yield Pays Today’s Bill

The Way Card connects your vault balance to everyday spending. Each purchase opens a micro-loan against projected rewards, then future yield streams in until the balance is cleared. Principal remains in place, rewards keep accruing, and users avoid liquidation risk.

Why It Matters

High yield exists across many chains, yet most people cannot juggle bridges, liquidity pools, or the complexity. MilkyWay collapses that friction.

• Capital efficiency – one balance secures networks, farms DeFi, and finances spending

• Interoperability – crosschain routing handled by contracts, not users

• Inclusive design – whales can optimise idle treasuries, retail receives identical vault economics and benefits

History and Expansion

MilkyWay launched in December 2023 with Celestia liquid staking (milkTIA) and quickly became a trusted portal for TIA holders. Since then, we have expanded integrations to 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. Today MilkyWay has grown into a wide-ranging solution that unifies liquidity and security for modular blockchains.

By consolidating trust and security into one flexible pool of assets, MilkyWay simplifies things for developers while also letting users earn more through flexible DeFi opportunities. We expect this framework to boost the modular ecosystem’s growth, letting many services benefit from a common staked pool or deposit. Looking ahead, we are expanding our suite of products to enable flexible earn, maximize, spend opportunities, completing the loop with the upcoming Way Card to enable real-world spending powered by onchain yield.

From a single LST in 2023 to a holistic earn-maximize-pay loop, MilkyWay has grown into the connective tissue for capital across Celestia, Babylon, Initia, and now BNB Chain and new ecosystems in progress. Every new product routes value back to MILK stakers and vault depositors.

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