Imagine holding a golden key that periodically opens the door to wealth — but the cost is that once you use it to collateralize, borrow, or seek liquidity, that door is forever closed. This has been the dilemma for long-term BNB holders in recent years: either hold onto their staking rewards and earn stable income, or dive into DeFi to pursue higher asset utilization. The two options seem forever incompatible.

By early 2026, the situation finally began to change. Through the clisBNB protocol launched by ListaDAO, this seemingly unsolvable problem found an answer — you no longer need to choose between "certainty of returns" and "liquidity freedom."

**A New Paradigm Breaking Constraints**

Traditional liquidity staking products turn your assets into transferable tokens, but clisBNB operates on a different logic. When you deposit BNB into the ListaDAO protocol, the resulting digital contract — clisBNB — has unique properties: it allows you to retain your staking weight on the Binance platform while the asset itself gains new liquidity.

From a fundamental design perspective, this is a precise separation of rights. Previously, various yield rights for BNB were tightly bound together, making it impossible for users to split them. Now, with clisBNB, you can enjoy mining rights and also invest the assets into the DeFi ecosystem for additional yields. Rights are no longer a whole but can be flexibly configured components.

The brilliance of this design lies in its resolution of the true contradiction between liquidity and certain returns. Your BNB can participate in on-chain lending and trading pairs without losing its original platform rights. Every part of the asset’s value is fully activated.