Stride Airdrop

Stride is the premier multichain liquid staking protocol and sovereign consumer chain of the Cosmos interchain ecosystem. Founded by Vishal Talasani, Riley Edmunds, and Aidan Gomez and secured by the Cosmos Hub ($ATOM) through Interchain Security (ICS), Stride allows users to liquid stake native tokens from any IBC-connected chain—including $ATOM, $OSMO, $TIA, $DYM, $DYDX, and $SAGA—receiving 1:1 backed, yield-bearing liquid staking tokens called 'stTokens' (stATOM, stTIA, stDYM).

Stride's core technical achievement is Interchain Accounts (ICA) and Interchain Queries (ICQ). When a user deposits assets into Stride, the protocol automatically delegates the underlying tokens across a diversified, decentralized set of high-performing validators on the host chain. As staking rewards accrue, Stride automatically compounds the rewards back into the underlying stake, meaning the value of stTokens continuously appreciates relative to the base asset without requiring manual user transactions or unbonding lockups.

By leveraging Cosmos Hub Interchain Security, Stride inherits billions of dollars in economic security from the ATOM validator set. Governed by the $STRD token, Stride distributes a share of all liquid staking protocol fees directly to STRD stakers. Active liquid stakers who hold stTokens and deploy them into interchain DeFi pools stand at the core of Cosmos restaking and yield opportunities.

The native $STRD token has a 100 Million maximum supply. STRD is used for protocol governance, voting on validator delegation weights, and staking to earn protocol revenue sharing across all supported interchain stTokens.