Imagine holding a golden key in your hand, which periodically opens the door to wealth for you — but the catch is that once you use it to collateralize, borrow, or seek liquidity, that door is forever closed. This has been the dilemma for BNB long-term holders over the past few years: either stick with the stable income from new token launches and earn steady returns, or dive into DeFi to pursue higher asset utilization. The two seem impossible to achieve simultaneously.

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

**A New Paradigm Breaking Constraints**

Traditional liquid 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 — possesses 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 while also investing 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 ability to resolve the genuine conflict between liquidity and certain returns. Your BNB can participate in on-chain lending and trading pairs without losing the original platform rights. Every part of the asset’s value is fully activated.