cStone is the liquidity token you receive after staking ETH in the StakeStone project. Recently, after reading the article "Leverage + Mining = The Best Re-Staking Strategy?", some users asked if they could withdraw cStone to maximize their re-staking rewards.

The answer is yes, absolutely. The process involves five steps:

1. Withdraw cStone;

2. Unlock cStone into Stone;

3. Bridge Stone to Linea and convert it into ETH;

4. Bridge the ETH to Blast or another chain to engage in leveraged re-staking for liquidity mining.

The only part that might be confusing is why you can't directly bridge Stone to the target chain and instead have to go through Linea. The reason is that, currently, only on Linea can you convert Stone to ETH. Arbitrum, Blast, and Optimism don’t support this conversion yet. So, you have to take this detour via Linea. You might wonder how I discovered this “detour”—I'll explain that in a bit.

Now, let me walk you through each step to maximize your re-staking rewards using cStone.

Step 1: Withdraw cStone

If you’re a user of the "Airdrop Reference" Knowledge Planet, your cStone is likely already staked in Zircuit for mining. You’ll need to click this link and follow the instructions in the image below to withdraw your cStone.

Step 2: Unlock cStone into Stone

After withdrawing cStone, go to the StakeStone website, find the cStone unlocking section as shown below.

Once you click the "UNLOCK STONE" button in the image above, your cStone will be converted into Stone.

Step 3: Bridge Stone to Linea and Convert to ETH

Still on the StakeStone website, click the Bridge menu at the top to send Stone to the Linea chain.

The transfer process takes a few minutes. When you see the image below, it means the transfer was successful. Note that the transfer is initiated from the Ethereum mainnet, so you’ll need enough Gas on the Ethereum mainnet, or the transfer won’t go through.

Click this link to enter the LyNex exchange on Linea and convert Stone into ETH, as shown below.

Now, to answer how I discovered this path—there are many methods, but here’s a simple one. I searched for Stone on Coingecko, and in the Market section, I noticed that an exchange on the Linea chain supports trading, which turned out to be LyNex.

Step 4: Transfer ETH to Blast for Leveraged Re-Staking

After converting Stone into ETH, you can use various bridges to transfer ETH to any chain you want. In this example, we use the Owlto bridge, which is currently airdropping, as shown below.

Once ETH is transferred to Blast, you can exchange it for WeETH on the Thruster exchange, as shown below.

Click on Juice to enter the following page, and be sure to select WeETH as collateral, which can earn you more Etherfi airdrop points.

After clicking "Access" in the image above, follow the arrows to complete depositing, borrowing, and providing liquidity with the borrowed funds, as shown below.

Of course, besides Juice, you can also use Stella or Extra. The article "Leverage + Mining = The Best Re-Staking Strategy?" provides a detailed explanation of these options.

Conclusion

One thing you should understand is that maximizing returns sometimes requires trade-offs.

When you convert cStone into Stone, you lose the opportunity to continue accumulating StakeStone airdrop points.

However, if you realize that Stone is essentially just a wrapper on ETH, and what StakeStone does is manage liquidity on a broader scale using Stone, you'll see that ETH can achieve the same objectives without Stone. Re-staking is, in fact, a key benefit of Stone. So, by cashing in on your gains, abandoning future StakeStone airdrop points, and embracing leveraged re-staking returns, you might not be making a wrong decision.

Of course, I can’t make this decision for you—you’ll need to think it through yourself.

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