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# Staking

### What is staking ?

Staking in **CDEF** is becoming a liquidity provider. Liquidity provider is a user who funds a liquidity pool with crypto assets who owns to facilitate trading on the platform and earn passive income.

Liquidity pools are leveraged by the decentralized exchanges that use automated market maker-based systems to allow trading of illiquid trading pairs with limited slippage.

![](/files/cLX01VuGRnUJrQa00Q6a)

### Coins and categories

**Low Risk**        : Stable coin (example: USDT, BUSD)

**Medium Risk** : BTC and Altcoins ( example: BNB, ETH, XRP...)

**High Risk**       : Cake, MDX, XVS, BSW\...

### Staking guide

#### Wallet >> Select coin >> Stake

![](/files/syn67ycQu6a3oNaYHcEP)

Before staking, you need to have sufficient balance in wallet, here is the guide for [deposit to wallet.](/wallet/deposit.md)

![](/files/9KTaEw3PF9uKzvQks6p3)

### Can I withdraw my staked coins ?

Your coins are still in your possession when you stake them. You are essentially putting them to work, and free to unstake anytime.

{% hint style="warning" %}
\*\*Staking profit distributed base on every Monday, any unstake action before the maturity date, your staking profit will be cancel. 
{% endhint %}


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