EPIC: Liquid staking

[tac0turtle]

Summary

iqlusion has been working on a liquid staking approach for the cosmos ecosystem. This approach will be used on the cosmos hub and potentially on other chains as well. After much discussion with the hub, iqlusion and others it was deemed that adding this to the cosmos-sdk as an optional configuration for users would benefit the ecosystem.

Work Breakdown

• Evaluate the work on how to upstream in a manner that gets it merged in a timely manner [12917](WIP: Upstream to evaluate Liquid staking  #12917
• Create ADR (if needed)
• Upstream, review and merge into the main branch of the cosmos-sdk
• QA and test upgrades

cc @zmanian

[zmanian]

I will be creating an ADR

[alexanderbez]

if this is just module inclusion and maintenance, can I ask the purpose of the ADR? Or is the ADR just to document the rationale in adding it to the SDK?

[tac0turtle]

if this is just module inclusion and maintenance, can I ask the purpose of the ADR? Or is the ADR just to document the rationale in adding it to the SDK?

rationale and design changes to staking

[aaronc]

So this would be modifications to x/staking rather than a separate module correct?

[tac0turtle]

So this would be modifications to x/staking rather than a separate module correct?

correct, the design makes it so chains can opt into it or not

[tac0turtle]

closing in favour of #15543