# Staking Explained

**Staking** is a yield-generating mechanism that allows you to earn passive income over time (i.e **APY%** or **Yield**) without having to sell your cryptocurrency.

This is achieved by essentially ‘putting your coins to work’ - i.e staking coins - in various CeFi and DeFi projects, where they can participate in processes known as Proof of Stake, Liquidity Mining, Yield Farming and more.

* Proof of stake is a ‘consensus mechanism’ used by cryptocurrencies to ensure that all transactions on a blockchain are secured and verified without the need of a middle-man such as a bank or centralized payment processor.
* Liquidity mining is a way of providing liquidity to DeFi protocols, and in exchange for the provided liquidity, users are awarded with fees generated from the pair they provide liquidity on.
* Yield farming is based on automated market makers (AMMs). AMMs are smart contracts that facilitate the trading of digital assets using algorithms.
* Other 

At its core, staking is essentially the cryptocurrency equivalent of allocating funds into a high-yield savings account in a bank, but with much higher yields on average.

Learn more about staking make sure to check out our additional articles on staking:\ <br>

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