Jiko Core Engine: A Yield Optimizer Protocol featuring Single-sided Staking
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This page outlines the protocol’s mechanics, its dynamic investment strategy tailored to market volatility, a transparent fee structure with a competitive override, our commitment to community airdrops, and robust risk management, positioning the protocol as a premier choice for investors preferring low-risk and stable yield.
Crowdsourcing liquidity through single-sided staking pools, Jiko allows users to deposit assets like $BERA or stablecoins without needing paired tokens. This removes impermanent loss risks and lowers the entry barrier for participation on Berachain. Users can choose a cooldown period for withdrawals, with longer cooldowns earning higher shares of rewards, incentivizing commitment; a flexible option (no cooldown) excludes users from rewards. Yields from assets in cooldown are distributed entirely back to users who are still staking via the standard payout model, making the yield even more attractive. Optimize Yield Generation by allocating pooled capital into strategic positions within Berachain’s PoL. Through strategic allocation and risk management, the protocol seeks to optimize returns while preserving capital security. Redistributed yields flow back to users. In particular, users with assets under cooldown receive full access to the reward flow, making long-term staking more attractive and reinforcing the protocol’s sustainability.
The protocol allocates capital across three strategies—liquidity provision on decentralized exchanges (DEXs), lending and borrowing, and time-weighted average price (TWAP) trading—with allocations adjusting dynamically based on market volatility. All liquidity aggregates into the shared vault, from which the following strategies are executed:
Liquidity Provision (60–65%): Deployed to Berachain’s premier AMMs—Kodiak, BEX, and Bulla Exchange—these platforms offer trading fees and rewards in BGT via PoL. The protocol team actively manages liquidity positions, rebalancing pools to minimize impermanent loss and maximize yields from fees and governance tokens.
Lending and Borrowing (35–40%): Allocated to protocols like Euler, Dolomite, and Wasabi, generating interest and token incentives. Strategic borrowing redeploys assets into high-yield opportunities, with conservative collateral ratios to ensure stable yields.
TWAP Trading (2–5%): Executed to capture price stability, leveraging Berachain’s liquid markets to trade correlative assets, optimizing returns with minimal risk.
Liquidity Provision (45–50%): Reduced to limit impermanent loss, leveraging Kodiak, BEX, and Bulla Exchange for BGT rewards and fees, with active rebalancing to protect capital.
Lending and Borrowing (50–55%): Increased to capitalize on stable, IL-free yields from Euler, Dolomite, and Wasabi, prioritizing interest and token incentives.
TWAP Trading (1–3%): Minimized to reduce risk, focusing on calculated trades to exploit volatile price movements.
Yields are aggregated daily, with a standard distribution of 10% to the Beraji treasury for protocol development, security audits, and ecosystem contributions, 10% to an Impermanent Loss (IL) reserve fund to hedge liquidity provision risks, and 80% as daily payouts to depositors. An override rule ensures market-leading returns: if competitive payout rates are needed, no fees are cut, and 100% of yields are distributed to depositors. This flexible structure maximizes depositor value while ensuring long-term stability.
To engage and reward depositors, the protocol distributes a portion of yields as airdrops, leveraging points farming within Berachain’s ecosystem. These airdrops include:
Infrared Points (iBGT): Earned through liquidity provision, redeemable for iBGT tokens.
pPaw (BeraPaw): Accumulated via BeraPaw’s ecosystem, offering additional incentives.
Bulla Points (Bulla Exchange): Gained through LP activities, providing platform-specific benefits.
Airdrops are distributed periodically based on depositor activity, aligning with Berachain’s community-driven ethos and incentivizing long-term participation.
The protocol mitigates risks like smart contract vulnerabilities, impermanent loss, and market volatility through audited platforms, active rebalancing, and the IL reserve fund. Diversification across Dexes and lending protocols reduces single-point-of-failure risks. The single-sided staking model eliminates paired token risks, while the fee structure and override rule support ongoing improvements and competitive payouts. Transparent communication, including regular updates via X and Discord, ensures depositor trust.
The yield optimizer protocol redefines DeFi investing by pairing a trustless shared vault with a volatility-adaptive strategy. Capital flows through liquidity provision, lending, and TWAP trading, with allocations optimizing returns based on market conditions. Fees, airdrops, and customizable cooldowns foster resilience and community engagement, while the override rule ensures best-in-class payouts. By leveraging Berachain’s high-yield ecosystem, the protocol delivers robust returns, empowering investors in the DeFi landscape. Here are the APR we are offering to all single assets (excluding underlying APR from aSUGAR):
aSUGAR is simply a receipt token representing your deposited assets. If you’re new, we recommend starting simple — beginners should avoid interacting with aSUGAR and keep them safely in your wallet. Once you’re familiar with how rewards, cooldowns, and vaults work, you can explore the aSUGAR feature — designed for more advanced users looking to maximize yield opportunities. Remember: Staking aSUGAR doesn’t transfer ownership — your tokens stay in the contract and can be withdrawn anytime. But to unlock your original assets, aSUGAR must be returned and will be burned in the process. These are two distinct actions: → stake aSUGAR to earn → return aSUGAR to unstake Start simple, learn the flow, and level up when you’re ready. Join us now:
