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Kintsu Partners with Curvance: Amplifying sMON Utility and Yield Opportunities

POSTED JUL 17, 2026SHARE ON X ↗

We’re excited to announce a strategic partnership between Kintsu and Curvance, a cutting-edge DeFi protocol designed to optimize liquidity and yield management. This collaboration unlocks new opportunities for Monad users, enabling sMON holders to maximize their staking rewards while exploring advanced DeFi strategies.

About Curvance

Curvance is a liquidity optimization platform that bridges yield opportunities with efficient capital deployment. By leveraging its gauge emission system, Curvance incentivizes liquidity provision and empowers users to participate in advanced DeFi strategies. Its focus on maximizing yields through innovative mechanisms makes Curvance an essential partner in Monad’s growing DeFi ecosystem.

Unlocking New Potential for sMON

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With sMON, Kintsu’s liquid staking token for Monad, users can stake their assets while retaining liquidity for DeFi applications. This partnership with Curvance takes sMON’s utility to the next level, offering enhanced earning opportunities and innovative use cases.

Maximizing sMON Yields with Looping and Gauge Emissions

Curvance provides sMON holders with powerful tools to maximize their staking rewards through its gauge emission system and looping mechanisms. By staking sMON within Curvance, users can earn additional rewards via gauge emissions while simultaneously reinvesting these rewards to compound their returns over time. This process, often referred to as “looping,” allows users to optimize yield by leveraging the synergy between staking rewards and liquidity provisioning. With sMON integrated into Curvance, holders benefit from enhanced earning potential while maintaining liquidity, creating a highly efficient and rewarding experience.

Future DEX LP Opportunities

The partnership with Curvance opens up compelling opportunities for sMON holders to maximize their DeFi engagement across Monad’s decentralized exchanges. By pairing sMON with assets like MON, USDT, or USDC in liquidity pools on DEXs, users can create LP tokens that represent their share of the liquidity provided.

These LP tokens can then be staked within Curvance’s gauge emission system, unlocking additional rewards beyond traditional trading fees. Curvance allows liquidity providers to earn multiple revenue streams, including trading fees from DEX activity, staking rewards from sMON, and Curvance gauge emissions. This seamless integration significantly enhances the utility and yield potential of sMON while driving liquidity and innovation within the Monad ecosystem.

Why This Partnership Matters

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The collaboration between Kintsu and Curvance is a significant step toward enriching the Monad DeFi landscape. By integrating sMON into Curvance’s ecosystem, we’re not only amplifying the token’s utility but also fostering deeper liquidity and more efficient capital flows across Monad.

This partnership aligns with Kintsu’s mission to provide Monad users with robust and innovative DeFi solutions. With Curvance’s advanced yield optimization tools, sMON holders can explore new strategies to grow their assets and contribute to Monad’s ecosystem growth.

Looking Ahead

As Kintsu and Curvance continue to innovate, we remain committed to unlocking the full potential of sMON within the Monad network. This partnership is just the beginning of a broader effort to integrate sMON into cutting-edge DeFi platforms, creating unparalleled opportunities for Monad users.

Stay tuned for updates on this partnership and other exciting developments as we work together to shape the future of DeFi on Monad.

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