Meta Pool's goal is to solve the problems associated with Proof-of-Stake networks staking: illiquidity, immovability and accessibility. We aim to make staked NEAR tokens liquid and while distributing them across multiple validators to improve censorship-resistance of the NEAR network.

This event will be an opportunity to discuss openly on what Meta Pool team has been building for the last months and what the roadmap will be once it is live on NEAR Protocol's mainnet.

What is Meta Pool?

Meta Pool is a liquid staking solution for NEAR Protocol backed by community staking providers. Meta Pool lets users stake their NEAR, in order to receive a liquid, NEP-141 standard token they can use to participate in on-chain activities, e.g. lending. Nowadays, staked NEAR is locked and can not be used in DeFi.

How does Meta Pool work?

When staking with Meta Pool, users receive stNEAR tokens representing their share of the total supply of metapool’s staked NEAR. stNEAR tokens can be used like any other NEP-141 Token to earn yields and lending rewards. The stNEAR price is updated every epoch to reflect NEAR Protocol staking rewards.

By using Metapool, users can “liberate” their currently locked funds (more than 340m NEAR). Funds will be still staked and for NEAR stakers we reduced their risk by automatically allocating the staked NEAR to the best performing validators. Stakers get stNEAR liquid tokens so they can participate in the DEFI space while staking.

Important information:

• August 23rd launch on NEAR mainnet
• Community launch - $META Distribution rewards for stakers and liquidity providers from August 23rd to September 10th.

For more information please follow them on Twitter - https://twitter.com/meta_pool

Or you can join their Discord Server - launch channel.