"Staking creates an opportunity cost for DeFi, which can limit growth at the protocol level. The liquid staking token category, not just liquid, but 'composable,' posed a way to fix this and has seen great product market fit across revolutionary blockchains like Ethereum and Solana."

https://www.theblock.co/post/307487/brevan-howard-digital-monad-liquid-staking-protocol-kintsu-funding?stream=top