Liquid staking is where a token is staked, and then another token is issued to represent that staked token. 

As an illustration, a user deposits ATOM with Stride, stakes that ATOM, and then gives the user stATOM. At any point, stATOM, which stands for the underlying staked ATOM, may be used to redeem it. Staked ATOM cannot be sold, transferred, or utilized in DeFi, although stATOM can.

ST is the staking and governance token for Stride. The identical token, however, can be found written in two different ways: STRD and ST.

Absolutely. Delegating your tokens to Everstake is entirely safe. When you delegate, you don't transfer ownership to any other party or send your tokens to someone else. Your tokens always remain under your control and are accessible to you at any time.

Connecting your wallet doesn't involve sending transactions; it simply provides the website with your wallet's public address and enables the website to request actions from your wallet. You, as a user, must manually approve these actions.

We recommend installing the Keplr chrome extension.

ATOM, JUNO, STARS, OSMO, TIA, DYM, DYDX, LUNA, EVMOS, INJ, CMDX, SOMM, UMEE are supported for now.

Any Cosmos chain using IBC V3 with interchain accounts can be on-boarded via a governance vote. Here's a list of additional candidates, which may be supported by end of the year.

• Secret Network (stSCRT);
• Sei Network (stSEI);
• Kujira (stKUJI).

Your staking rewards will collect in Keplr, where you may access them whenever you want by selecting the "Claim rewards" option.

As for your Stride Zone liquid staking tokens, the value of your stToken increases as your staking rewards increase. You will receive the value equal to the tokens you delegated plus any incentives created when you swap your stToken for your original token.

There are no requirements for a minimum staking amount.

The basic utility for stTokens is that they can be transferred or sold without having to either wait through a lengthy unstaking period or foregoing staking rewards. But in addition to this base utility, there is DeFi utility for stAssets.

The "unbonding period" is the waiting period between when you unstake your tokens and when they show up in your wallet. This is a security measure implemented by the Cosmos protocol to prevent validator misbehavior and is not specific to Stride, all unstaked tokens go through this waiting period. Unbonding can take 2-4 weeks, so if you'd like to get native assets more quickly (e.g. ATOM), you can sell stATOM on a DEX like Osmosis for ATOM, and skip the unbonding period.