# Unlocking Staking Liquidity Trusted Node uses the concept of **liquid staking**. Before delegating native tokens to validation nodes, users can generate wrapped derivatives (**t-tokens**) that can be swapped, sold, or deposited into high-APY protocols. Users no longer have to choose between PoS and DeFi staking. Liquid staking allows them to combine staking rewards and liquidity mining yields to maximize their gains. The ability to do both helps solve the previously discussed issue of DeFi protocols cannibalizing PoS security by offering higher APYs (**see Lending Protocols vs. PoS security**). Liquid staking incentivizes capital flow from DeFi to PoS and back to DeFi, creating new yield stacking opportunities. --- # Agent Instructions: Querying This Documentation If you need additional information that is not directly available in this page, you can query the documentation dynamically by asking a question. Perform an HTTP GET request on the current page URL with the `ask` query parameter: ``` GET https://whitepaper.trustednode.io/solution/unlocking-staking-liquidity.md?ask= ``` The question should be specific, self-contained, and written in natural language. The response will contain a direct answer to the question and relevant excerpts and sources from the documentation. Use this mechanism when the answer is not explicitly present in the current page, you need clarification or additional context, or you want to retrieve related documentation sections.