How Liquid Staking and Regular Staking are different?

Both liquid staking and regular staking mean one thing: locking the chain's native tokens to enhance the network's security and earn rewards. Still, they are different: regular staking requires maintaining infrastructure, while liquid staking users just provide their tokens to regular stakers. 


Here are the main differences between TON staking and Tonstakers liquid staking: 


 Regular Staking Liquid Staking
Hardware Requires to set up a node and maintain it. Doesn't require setting up a node. Stake from your wallet.
Minimum deposit At least 300,000 TON to start. Tonstakers minimum amount to stake is 1 TON.
Lock-up Has a lock-up period. Tonstakers allows instant withdrawals with no lock-up.
Liquidity Staked tokens are locked and can't be reused. Tonstakers issues tsTON for staked TON that can be used in DeFi for additional yields.
APY Validators receive full staking APY. Tonstakers collects a small fee for its services, which leads to slightly lower APY.
Risks Validators can lose tokens due to slashing. Tonstakers users are protected from slashing.
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