Endur Season 2 and the Economics of Productive Liquidity
Building on top of Starknet’s Growth
Starknet's liquid staking landscape looks nothing like it did six months ago. Over 1B STRK is now staked, BTC liquidity on the network has crossed $150M, and LSTs like xSTRK have become core building blocks across lending, AMMs, and vault strategies. The ecosystem has outgrown simple "stake and hold" incentive models.
That shift is exactly why Endur Season 1's points system, while effective at bootstrapping early adoption, needed a fundamental redesign. When idle capital earns the same as capital actively stabilizing markets, the incentive structure breaks. Liquidity providers tightening spreads on Ekubo, lenders deepening borrowing markets on Vesu, and vault depositors compounding yield through Troves were all treated the same as someone holding xSTRK in a wallet.
Season 2 fixes that asymmetry. This article breaks down how the new points framework works, why it weights behavior over balance, and what it means for stakers, liquidity providers, and institutional allocators looking to earn on Starknet.
Why we introduced Season 2 of Points Program
The Endur Points Program was never meant to be a short‑term growth hack. Season 1 was intentionally simple: incentivize STRK staking, bootstrap xSTRK adoption, and observe how liquidity behaves when users are rewarded for participation.
Season 1 delivered clear results with sustained staking growth, deeper xSTRK integration across Starknet DeFi, price appreciation of xSTRK, and users actively participating to stack Endur points and rank-up in the leaderboard. But Starknet itself evolved faster than the original incentive model.
With BTC liquidity entering Starknet and liquid staking primitives becoming composable across lending, AMMs, and vaults, a balance‑based points system was no longer sufficient.
Season 2 exists to answer a harder question:
How do you reward economic impact, that stabilize liquidity and utilization?
Endur Season 1 Recap: xSTRK Staking Growth
Season 1 points were distributed by calculating user actions from Day 1 retrospectively.
Season 1 followed a deliberately minimal model:
Daily Points = xSTRK Held × Base Multiplier (1×)
This design optimized for:
Early adoption of xSTRK
Simplicity and transparency
Predictable rewards for active participation
The outcomes validated the approach:
STRK staking TVL increased meaningfully
Overall protocol TVL expanded ~6.6×
xSTRK integrated into core Starknet protocols
250,000 xSTRK distributed back to active participants
Season 1 Emissions Cap & Recalibration
All points distributed during Season 1 are now capped at a fixed total of 10M points.
What this means in practice:
Season 1 points are no longer inflationary
A final recalculation will be applied to normalize all Season 1 allocations against the 10M cap
Each user’s final Season 1 points will be proportionally adjusted based on their share of total points earned during the season
This ensures fairness across all participants while creating a clean transition into Season 2’s redesigned, behavior-weighted framework.
Season 1 built the foundation by proving that staking demand and LST adoption could scale.
The Core Shift in Season 2
Season 2 transforms Endur Points from a balance‑based incentive into a behavior‑weighted, impact‑driven framework.
The philosophy is simple:
Not all actions contribute equally to market health
Liquidity depth matters more than idle capital
Capital efficiency should be rewarded more than raw size
Season 2 reflects Starknet’s reality as a dual‑asset staking ecosystem, where both STRK and BTC participate in securing and capitalizing the network.
Emissions & Distribution Mechanics
Season 2 introduces a tightly scoped and predictable emission schedule:
Total Season 2 Emissions: 7.5M points
Distribution Model: Weekly epoch‑based allocation
Duration: 6 months
Daily point accrual has been removed.
Instead, each weekly epoch evaluates user behavior holistically and distributes points based on relative impact within that epoch.
Staking vs Contributing: How the 30/70 Points Split Works
Season 2 introduces a deliberate split in how points are allocated:
30% → Regular user actions
70% → Contributor actions
This is not arbitrary.
To further help Endur scale, contributors shall have a key role where they can help provide more liquidity in key utility areas. The fastest way to solve it is to prioritize capital that improves:
DEX Liquidity depth: minimal slippages for users, strengthens use-case for instant liquidity and DeFi use.
Lending Liquidity on Vesu: Helps utilise LST to borrow Stables, BTC and STRK, unlocking collateral value of staked assets while maintaining sustainable borrowing rates.
Regular Users
Regular users perform foundational actions such as:
STRK staking
BTC staking
Vault participation
Borrowing against LSTs
Contributors
Contributor actions receive higher multipliers because they directly improve Starknet’s financial infrastructure, rather than simply interacting with it. Each contributor action solves a specific structural constraint in the ecosystem.
1. Supplying BTC or Stables on Lending Markets
More lending liquidity of these assets increases the utility of xSTRK and xyBTCs.
2. LP via Troves-Managed Ekubo Vaults (Auto-Rebalancing)
Troves-managed Ekubo vaults:
Maintain liquidity near the true price of LSTs
Automatically rebalance as prices move
Reduce slippage for swaps, redemptions, and arbitrage
This stabilizes LST pricing, improves peg confidence, and lowers friction across DeFi integrations. Because these vaults continuously maintain market health, they earn the highest multipliers in Season 2.
3. Concentrated Liquidity on Ekubo (Manual LP)
Similar to above, helps stability LST pricing but gives you the flexibility to manage liquidity as you want.
Note: Liquidity within 0.5% price of true price of LST will only be considered for added point multipliers.
Why the Skew Is Intentional
Season 2 prioritizes liquidity depth, price stability, and capital reuse, the three pillars that determine whether LSTs function as productive assets or remain yield wrappers.
Contributor actions:
Compound the utility of staked assets
Strengthen Endur’s capital markets
Unlock participation from larger allocators and institutions that require deep, stable liquidity
This is why 70% of the total points allocation is set for Contributors.
To make contributing easier, Season 2 introduces a DeFi Opportunities tab that aggregates Earn, Borrow, and Concentrated Liquidity actions across Endur’s partner protocols, making it simple to find high-impact strategies and engage in contributor actions in one place.
How Multipliers Work in Season 2 (Explicit Breakdown)
Season 2 introduces a transparent, action-weighted multiplier system.
Every eligible action contributes to your points through a combination of a base multiplier and, where applicable, add-on multipliers.
At a high level:
Points = Capital Deployed × Base Multiplier × Add-On Multipliers
Base vs Add-On Multipliers
Base multipliers apply to foundational actions such as staking STRK, staking BTC, or participating in vaults. These actions anchor the system and earn predictable, baseline rewards.
Add-on multipliers apply when capital is deployed in ways that actively improve market quality — such as supplying liquidity, tightening spreads, or unlocking borrowing capacity.
Not all add-on multipliers are equal. Each action has a multiplier range, reflecting the fact that how capital is used matters as much as where it is deployed.
Multiplier Ranges & Impact Weighting
Multipliers in Season 2 are not fixed values. Instead, each action is assigned a range, and your effective multiplier within that range depends on deeper, impact-based metrics, including but not limited to:
Duration of capital deployment
Consistency of participation across epochs
Relative contribution compared to other participants
Market conditions and liquidity demand during the epoch
These factors ensure that capital providing sustained, high-quality liquidity is rewarded more than short-term or opportunistic behavior.
While the structure of Season 2 multipliers is transparent, the exact weighting and calculation logic is intentionally not disclosed.
By keeping the deeper metrics internal, Season 2 remains adaptive, fair, and resilient as Starknet’s liquidity landscape evolves.
What’s more in Season 2?
Season 2 is designed to evolve alongside Starknet’s liquidity landscape. Several targeted initiatives will roll out progressively to accelerate adoption, reward high-impact behavior, and surface long-term contributors.
1. One click Native Staking → LSTs migration
2. Endur Resilience Vault
Protocol managed liquidity, automatically routing liquidity to DEX, lending pools, or staking for yield. Prioritised optimal liquidity for Endur ecosystem while earning yield.
3. Referral program
4. Creators program
And many more…
Start Earning Endur Points Today
Endur Season 2 isn’t a points chase.
It’s about cultivating contributors aligned with Endur and turning participation into productive capital.
It begins with staking.
It expands through liquidity.
And it culminates in powering Starknet’s capital markets.
Season 2 is live.
Explore available staking and DeFi strategies on Endur and start earning Season 2 points today. For the latest staking data, check the Endur Dashboard.
