In this article, we explain the new release for Unlock users and how Liquid Staked MAV through unkMAV is different to locking MAV as veMAV directly on Maverick and why one would choose to do so.

What is Unlock?

Unlock is a yield and governance protocol built on top of Maverick AMM. Our purpose is to increase utility for Maverick users, and to fully preserve its foundational values at scale.

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Liquid Staked MAV (unkMAV)

unkMAV is a Liquid Staked version of Maverick’s MAV token. It can be obtained by heading to the Unlock MAV Locker page and staking your MAV tokens to mint unkMAV. Unlock converts your MAV for you via Maverick to optimize rewards and voting power, instead of getting untransferrable veMAV, that you would get if you locked your tokens on Maverick directly — you will receive unkMAV — a Liquid Staked version of veMAV.

In Stage 1 of The Unlock Games, users have made Unlock one of the leading MAV Liquid Staking tools around with 28% of all veMAV Liquid Staked through Unlock. Over 6,000,000 veMAV is trustlessly staked with Unlock. The community has been engaged with enhancing Unlock and we’re exceedingly thankful for all the feedback and ideas users have provided to us.

Our path to decentralization through Community Ownership is just getting started.

unkMAV Features

unkMAV has all the features of veMAV, such as governance power, rewards and more:

• Liquidity. unkMAV is transferable and tradeable via liquidity pools on Maverick, for which Unlock is designed to build and maintain liquidity.

• Rewards. Automatically get points for Maverick’s Season 1 50,000,000 veMAV airdrop, protocol fees, a portion of MAV generated by Unlock and LP rewards.

• Composability. unkMAV tokens can be transferred, traded, or used as collateral in other DeFi protocols, creating new opportunities for yield and capital efficiency.

• Cross-chain. unkMAV is natively cross-chain through LayerZero OFT Technology.

• Vote delegation. Unlock offers flexible delegation of your voting power. You can choose any address for delegation or auto-delegate your votes to Unlock to optimise for voting rewards.

• Voting rewards. If you are voting or delegating your votes to Unlock, you will receive voting incentives from protocols seeking veMAV voting power.

• Community Ownership. Every action on Unlock is rewarded with Keys — the pre-token required for a retroactive airdrop of UNK, Unlock’s governance token.

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You can immediately choose to mint and stake on the locker page. This is an option for you if you want to fully take part in voting while also receiving additional unkMAV incentives and the most Keys for The Unlock Games Community Ownership program.

In this case, you can vote on Maverick regular voting or delegate the votes to whatever address you choose. When voting yourself or delegating your votes, you will receive voting incentives as per your or Unlock’s voting strategy.

unkMAV liquidity pools on Maverick.

An important aspect of liquid staking is liquidity - users can stake their tokens to earn fees and rewards by staking into Maverick Boosted Positions.

unkMAV, which is not staked on Unlock, delegates voting power automatically to direct votes to unkMAV liquidity pools as well as other strategies on Maverick. These unstaked unkMAV tokens can be staked into boosted liquidity pools on Maverick to collect swap fees, unkMAV incentives and Keys.

Get Keys faster with Unlock NFTs.

Every action on Unlock is rewarded with Keys, a pre-token required for Community Ownership via retroactive airdrop of UNK, Unlock’s Governance Token. Anyone can mint and design their NFT from the app to collect Keys, NFT’s also provide a multiplier to any Keys generated from staking deposits in unkMAV or in boosted positions for unkMAV.

Design, mint and share your NFT on twitter #TheUnlockening to maximise your Keys. See NFTs from other users on Twitter or via the in App showcase.

Verify your assets with Guild and complete Quests to claim the ‘OG’ role on discord to get another multiplier to your Keys and advance your rank in The Unlock Games.

Verify your NFTs and unkMAV with Guild

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Get Keys faster with Guardian Bonuses

To enhance security and decentralization, we launched the Guardian Multisig, comprised of ecosystem experts, from Maverick and protocols actively building with Maverick to compliment and enhance Unlock.

The Guardians are voluntary and present to enhance the Maverick and Unlock ecosystems, to reward their contribution and further Community Ownership, users from partner communities get a Key Multiplier!

Current Partners: Swell, Liquity, unshETH, DegenScore, Tokemak, Gravita, Tenet & Tapio.

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Rewards

For all interactions on Unlock, you’ll automatically qualify rewards from Maverick Season 1 as well as more rewards:

• Collect MAV Ecosystem Incentive S1 Rewards

As ever, every interaction on Unlock automatically gets you rewards in Maverick’s Ecosystem Incentive Program - Season 1.

• Keys, Decentralization through Community Ownership

Every interaction with Unlock is rewarded with Keys, users Key balances in the Unlock Games lead to Community Ownership of Unlock through a retroactive UNK distribution.

• Liquity Provider Rewards

Deposit MAV or unkMAV into the boosted position to collect swap fees, unkMAV incentives, Keys as well as Maverick Season 1 Ecosystem rewards.

Future Rewards

• Unlock Merch - We want our users and community members to be able to represent Unlock within Ethereum, BNB and zkSync as well as the greater DeFi ecosystem and have merch to match.

• Future Campaign Benefits - This can include a bonus or booster to our subsequent campaigns, The Unlock Games stage 2, which will have it’s own reward component (stacks with the campaign bonus you receive from being an Unlock OG).

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