The biggest losses in the crypto world are often invisible.

Are you like this too—holding dozens of BNB in your wallet, just watching the K-line every day? But do you know that this kind of "lying flat and holding" is actually secretly losing money.

Let's do some calculations.

**100 BNB, two different outcomes**

Option 1: Traditional holding. After one year, still 100 BNB. If the price doesn't increase, the return is zero. It sounds like no loss, but in reality, you miss out on the compound interest opportunity—that's opportunity cost.

Option 2: Participating in liquidity staking. Deposit BNB into a staking platform in exchange for slisBNB (liquid staking token). This token automatically accumulates staking rewards, about 2-3% annually. In other words, you don't have to do anything; after a year, you get back about 102.5 BNB. That extra 2.5 BNB is essentially an invisible loss that was silently lost.

**Real arbitrage starts here**

But the difference above is only superficial. The true power of liquidity staking lies in not sacrificing liquidity. Holding slisBNB, you can fully participate in providing liquidity on a major DEX to earn trading fees. Or you can use it in lending protocols as collateral, borrowing stablecoins to pursue other strategies.

One principal, multiple income channels—that's the compound interest logic of DeFi.

Someone asked, how many times can this operation multiply? Honestly, a conservative estimate is an annualized return of over 20%, far higher than just holding. The specific returns depend on trading volume and lending demand, but the core idea is: make your assets more active, rather than sleeping in a cold wallet.