Welcome to Aureus

Liquid and optimized staking for Aurora!

What is Aureus?

Aureus protocol is a non-custodial liquid staking platform for the Aurora Ecosystem, accepting AURORA governance tokens. Users can stake their Aurora with Aureus's automated staking strategy and receive back stAurora that can be used for greater decentralized finance.

The stAurora stake token holds the original value of the stake and all the rewards accrued over time. Overtime the stAurora token will go up relative to the Aurora token.

There are a couple different ways a user can begin liquid staking. 1) Staking Aurora token directly with Aureus protocol. 2) Acquiring stAurora from secondary markets.

Additionally, there are several different ways a stAurora holder can unstake. 1) Normal unstaking based on the Aurora plus staking contract cooldown period. 2) Receiving back Aurora and the rewards instantly with a small fee. 3) Exchanging on secondary markets.

Motivation and Vision

Although staking provides a plethora of benefits to token holders, there are a few user experience problems with staking in general and specific to the Aurora token staking.

Problems with staking:

• Owners of stake are unable to utilize their assets while they are staked.

• Unstaking tokens take significant amount of time.

Problems with Aurora token staking:

• Staking rewards booster coefficient drops off colossally over 4 years to incentivize early stakes, and later stakes are rewarded less.

• Unstaking any amount of tokens will drop the entire booster coefficient

Using Aureus for your staking experience

Let's go over the benefits of using Aureus:

• Highest possible rewards for stakes at any point of time from our automated staking strategy

• Unstakes minimally impact reward rates

• No waits with instant unstake

• Stake and delayed unstake with 0 fees

• With stake unlocked, participate in greater defi

• Participate in Aurora governance