Back to Liquid Staking Map: All Networks & Protocols

Data sources & methodology

How the Liquid Staking Map collects, processes, and presents protocol data across liquid staking, liquid restaking, and restaking categories.

Data sources

DeFiLlama Protocols API

Primary

Protocol-level data for all liquid staking, liquid restaking, and restaking protocols. Covers TVL (total and per-chain breakdown), multi-chain deployment data, audit history, hack/exploit events, and protocol metadata (launch date, category, social links).

Endpointapi.llama.fi/protocols

RefreshEvery 6 hours

DeFiLlama Yields API

Primary

Pool-level yield data for staking protocols. Provides base APY (organic staking yield), reward APY (token incentives), TVL per pool, underlying tokens, and chain. Pools are filtered to the three tracked categories with TVL above $10,000.

Endpointyields.llama.fi/pools

RefreshEvery 6 hours

DeFiLlama Protocol Detail

Enrichment

Per-protocol detail pages source audit reports, security incidents, governance links, and historical TVL breakdowns. Each protocol profile on the map links back to the DeFiLlama detail page for verification.

Endpointapi.llama.fi/protocol/{slug}

RefreshOn demand (ISR, 60s)

Tracked categories

Liquid Staking

Protocols that accept native PoS tokens and issue a transferable liquid derivative (LST). The LST accrues staking rewards while remaining usable as DeFi collateral.

ProtocolsLido, Rocket Pool, Coinbase Wrapped, Marinade, Jito, Benqi, pSTAKE, Ankr, Stride

Liquid Restaking

Protocols that wrap restaked ETH positions into transferable tokens (LRTs). The underlying ETH secures both Ethereum consensus and additional Actively Validated Services.

ProtocolsEtherFi, Renzo, Puffer, Kelp, Swell, Bedrock

Restaking

Base restaking platforms where staked ETH or LSTs opt into additional slashing conditions to provide economic security to external protocols (AVSs).

ProtocolsEigenLayer, Symbiotic, Karak

Data pipeline

The pipeline runs every 6 hours as a scheduled cron job on a dedicated VPS. Each step runs sequentially.

Protocol sync

Fetch all DeFiLlama protocols, filter to Liquid Staking + Liquid Restaking + Restaking categories, upsert into vault_protocols table

Pool sync

Fetch all DeFiLlama yield pools, match to tracked protocols by project name, upsert TVL, APY, and chain data per pool

Chain aggregation

Aggregate per-chain TVL and protocol counts from the multi-chain deployment data on each protocol record

Protocol profiles

Fetch audit count, hack history, and detail metadata per protocol. Served via ISR on protocol detail pages

Summary computation

Compute aggregate stats (total protocols, total TVL, chain count, average APY) for the homepage overview widget

Transparency

All data on the Liquid Staking Map comes from public APIs with no manual curation or editorial filtering. Protocol inclusion is determined by DeFiLlama category classification. TVL and APY figures are reported as-is from DeFiLlama with no adjustments. The complete pipeline code is maintained by DIA and runs on infrastructure operated by DIA.