ONE was designed to become the native liquidity layer for Canton DeFi.
When users stake ONE on Alpend, that capital does not simply sit idle. The protocol actively deploys liquidity across market operations and curated yield strategies designed to generate sustainable yield for stakers.
As @CantonNetwork's credit markets expand, ONE staking becomes increasingly tied to real protocol activity rather than passive token emissions.
Current Sources of ONE Staking Yield
Today, ONE staking yield comes from three primary sources: money market liquidation rewards, curated yield deployment, and protocol incentives.
Money market liquidation rewards come from Alpend’s lending markets across the Canton ecosystem. When a borrower’s position crosses the liquidation threshold, Alpend’s liquidation bots can use ONE liquidity to repay undercollateralized borrow positions and receive collateral plus liquidation incentives in return.
These liquidation rewards are converted into protocol gains and routed back to ONE stakers. In practice, ONE liquidity helps maintain the health of Alpend’s lending markets while earning yield from real market activity occurring inside the protocol.
Curated yield deployment keeps staking liquidity productive even during periods of lower liquidation activity. When ONE liquidity is sitting idle, portions of it can be deployed into curated external strategies such as Morpho to earn additional yield while maintaining liquidity availability for protocol operations.
This allows Alpend to improve capital efficiency without leaving large amounts of liquidity inactive.
Protocol incentives currently complement these organic yield sources. During the early growth phase of the ecosystem, the Alpend team provides additional incentives to help bootstrap liquidity, staking participation, and overall market activity around ONE.
Over time, the objective is for staking yield to become increasingly supported by protocol-driven financial activity rather than emissions alone.
From Passive Staking to Productive Liquidity
Most staking systems rely primarily on inflationary rewards.
ONE staking is designed differently.
The long-term vision is to transform ONE into productive liquidity infrastructure for Canton — liquidity that actively participates in liquidations, credit markets, and capital deployment strategies across the ecosystem.
As Alpend’s markets expand, staking yield can increasingly be supported by:
• Lending activity
• Liquidation flows
• Borrow demand
• Yield strategies
• Credit infrastructure built on top of ONE
This creates a stronger relationship between protocol usage and staking rewards.
The Next Phase: Alpend-1
The next major expansion is Alpend-1, Alpend’s CDP system for minting ONE against collateral.
Once Alpend-1 goes live, users will be able to lock supported collateral assets and mint ONE directly against them, creating a native decentralized credit layer on Canton.
This introduces entirely new opportunities for ONE staking yield generation, including:
• Borrowing fees
• CDP liquidation flows
• Stability vault strategies
• Automated collateral management
• Native leverage loops
• Protocol-level liquidity routing
Over time, Alpend-1 can evolve ONE from a staking asset into the core decentralized credit primitive powering Canton DeFi.
Building Canton’s Native Credit Engine
ONE is not designed to be idle capital.
It is being built as productive liquidity infrastructure for Canton.
Every liquidation executed, every yield route activated, and every new credit primitive launched expands the role of ONE within the ecosystem.
The objective is not temporary emissions.
The objective is sustainable, activity-driven yield backed by real financial infrastructure.
ONE staking is already live, currently offering 21% APY.
Start earning now at one.alpend.com/earn
