# Guide: Liquid Staking ATOM with Drop

By [Drop](https://paragraph.com/@drop-2) · 2025-04-03

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The future is liquid — and it starts today.

Drop is now live on mainnet. Securely liquid stake ATOM with Drop to:

*   Earn staking rewards without locking your assets
    
*   Deploy your staked assets in various applications for additional yield and benefits
    
*   Auto-compound your staking rewards
    
*   Exit your position at any time
    
*   Remain eligible for airdrops
    
*   Support the growth of your favorite ecosystems
    

Drop is currently invite-only, so grab a Drop referral link from the Drop community on [**Telegram**](https://t.me/drop_protocol) or on Twitter/X and head over to [**app.drop.money**](https://app.drop.money/) to get started💧

**Summary**
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*   Liquid stake ATOM using funds from your Leap, Keplr, or Cosmostation wallet
    
*   Receive dATOM when liquid staking, a tokenized version of your staked ATOM position. Staking rewards are compounded, meaning that dATOM can be redeemed for more ATOM over time
    
*   Earn a share of a 100M DROP airdrop through the [**Droplet Program**](https://medium.com/drop-protocol/introducing-the-droplets-program-the-ultimate-guide-to-earning-drop-d80fd58c6a3e) by holding dATOM
    
*   Multiply your airdrop using dATOM in DeFi, and earn bonus Droplets by referring friends
    
*   When liquid staking with Drop, your assets are distributed across a proven set of Cosmos Hub validators to minimize slashing and downtime risks
    

**What is Drop?**
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The Interchain — a network of blockchains connected via [**IBC**](https://www.ibcprotocol.dev/) — has experienced tremendous growth, but billions of dollars remain locked and unusable due to traditional staking. Such capital constraints — combined with high staking APRs — impede ecosystem growth and force users to choose between securing the network or putting their assets to work. With so much capital locked away, ecosystems face an increased risk of failure due to little economic traction.

Drop is on a mission to strengthen the economic viability of sovereign blockchains by transforming stagnant, frozen capital into flowing streams of opportunity. Built on [**Neutron**](https://www.neutron.org/) and led by ex-[**Lido**](https://lido.fi/) and [**P2P**](https://p2p.org/) contributors, Drop is a liquid staking protocol for Interchain assets and a member of the [**Lido Alliance**](https://research.lido.fi/t/lido-alliance-an-ethereum-aligned-ecosystem/7475). With Drop, you can convert staked positions of any size to dAssets, enabling you to earn auto-compounded staking rewards while maintaining the flexibility to:

*   Use your staked assets in various applications for additional yield and benefits
    
*   Exit your staking position at any time
    
*   Remain eligible for airdrops
    
*   Support the growth of your favorite ecosystems
    

**How to Liquid Stake ATOM with Drop**
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Launched in 2019, ATOM is one of the largest and most decentralized crypto assets, currently standing at #42 on Coingecko with over $2B in market cap. This guide walks through how to liquid stake ATOM for dATOM.

💡 Visit [**app.neutron.org/bridge**](http://app.neutron.org/bridge) to swap almost any asset on any chain for ATOM on Cosmos Hub.

**Step 1:** Visit [**app.drop.money**](https://app.drop.money/), enter a referral link (you can grab one from the Drop community on [**Telegram**](https://t.me/drop_protocol) or on Twitter/X), and connect your wallet.

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**Important Note**: Drop can only guarantee that users will receive Droplets and a DROP airdrop if they access the protocol using a referral link.

**Step 2:** Click **Stake** and enter the amount of ATOM you’d like to liquid stake for dATOM.

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**Converting Staked ATOM to dATOM**: Soon, existing ATOM stakers on Cosmos Hub will have the opportunity to convert staked ATOM positions of any size to dATOM with zero unstaking period. To do so, your ATOM must be staked with a Drop Validator:

*   0basevc
    
*   01node
    
*   Binary Builders AG
    
*   Chorus One
    
*   Citadel.one
    
*   Cosmostation
    
*   Enigma
    
*   Everstake
    
*   Golden Ratio
    
*   High Stakes Switzerland
    
*   Imperator
    
*   Iqlusion
    
*   Kahuna
    
*   Keplr
    
*   Lavender.Five Nodes
    
*   Meria
    
*   NodeStake
    
*   P2P Staking
    
*   Polkachu
    
*   POSTHUMAN
    
*   Pro Delegators
    
*   Provalidator
    
*   Pryzm
    
*   SG-1
    
*   Simply Staking
    
*   Stakecito Labs
    
*   StakeLab
    
*   Stakely
    
*   Stakin
    
*   Swiss Staking AG
    

If you aren’t currently staked with one of these validators, consider redelegating your ATOM to one of them to take advantage of this feature once it goes live.

**Step 3:** Click **Confirm** and sign the transaction in your wallet. If your ATOM isn’t already on the correct chain for liquid staking, Drop will ask you to sign a second transaction in your wallet to complete the process.

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And that’s it!

You now hold dATOM in your wallet and are earning DROP tokens through the Droplets Program. Visit [**droplets.drop.money**](https://droplets.drop.money/) to explore DROP multiplier and bonus opportunities and earn additional DeFi rewards and benefits. You can also track the Droplets you’ve earned through liquid staking, using dAssets, and referring friends — Droplet totals will update daily.

💡 For questions related to Drop, join the [**Drop community Telegram**](https://t.me/drop_protocol).

**Looking Ahead**
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dATOM is live on Neutron mainnet, and the first Epoch of the Droplet Program is now underway.

Multiply your Droplets on [**droplets.drop.money**](https://droplets.drop.money/) by:

*   Providing liquidity on [**Astroport**](https://app.astroport.fi/pools) pools — 5–50x multiplier + potential trading fees and incentives: **dATOM/NTRN (50x multiplier); dATOM/USDC (50x multiplier); dATOM/ATOM (5x multiplier)**
    
*   Providing liquidity on [**Levana**](https://trade.levana.finance/neutron/markets) perpetual markets — 5–50x multiplier + potential trading fees: **dATOM xLP (50x multiplier); dATOM LP (5x multiplier)**
    
*   (Coming later in Epoch One) Depositing Astroport LP positions into [**Apollo**](https://app.apollo.farm/) auto-compounding vaults — 5–50x multiplier: **dATOM/NTRN (50x multiplier); dATOM/USDC (50x multiplier); dATOM/ATOM (5x multiplier)**
    

This is only the beginning. If you’ve been following [**Drop’s Twitter feed**](https://x.com/dropdotmoney/highlights), you’ll know that new dAssets and an array of dAsset use cases — dTIA, self-repaying loans, lending, delta-neutral and leveraged strategies, and much more — are coming soon.

Keep an eye out for announcements of future Epochs with new opportunities from [**@dropdotmoney**](https://x.com/dropdotmoney/highlights) on Twitter/X, and happy staking!

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*Originally published on [Drop](https://paragraph.com/@drop-2/guide-liquid-staking-atom-with-drop)*