Institutional Overview

PrimeStaking is more than a retail staking app, it is staking infrastructure for the XDC Network, designed to serve exchanges, custodians, and institutional partners at scale.

Built in collaboration with Nethermind and the XDC Core team, PrimeStaking provides production-grade liquid staking infrastructure with no principal-stake slashing, audited smart contracts, and non-custodial architecture.

What We Offer

PrimeStaking provides turnkey XDC staking infrastructure that exchanges and institutions can integrate or white-label. Our stack handles:

Validator operations - masternode management, uptime, performance monitoring, on-chain delegation
Liquid staking contracts - the non-upgradeable, ERC-4626 PrimeStakedXDC_V3_1 vault for minting and redeeming psXDC shares
NAV-based reward accrual - reward XDC flows back into the vault, share price rises automatically; no manual reward distribution path
Self-service withdrawals - instant when the buffer permits, otherwise a permissionless FIFO queue with claimQueuedAssets self-claim
V2 → V3 migration - dedicated bridge with slippage protection for any psXDC v2 balance partners may already hold
Reporting - on-chain settlement data and portfolio-level analytics via the staking-v3-indexer and xdc-nft-v3-indexer

Why PrimeStaking

Advantage

Detail

Non-custodial

Users retain full ownership of assets at all times

Audited by QuillAudits

XDC Staking Contract, 98.8%. Published

Audited by Nethermind

Security audit of custody contracts conducted by Nethermind Security, trusted auditing partner for Lido, EtherFi, Optimism, and Worldcoin

No principal-stake slashing

XDC's slashing penalizes downtime via temporary exclusion (~2h) and missed rewards; staked capital is never burned - unlike ETH liquid staking

Permissionless custody

Smart contract-based validator key management - no human custody

Battle-tested

Live since 2024, grown to $6M+ TVL

XDC-native

Purpose-built for the XDC Network ecosystem

Why XDC Network

Property

Detail

Consensus

XDPoS (Delegated Proof of Stake) with masternode validators

No stake-burning slashing

XDC slashing excludes underperforming masternodes from block production for ~2h and forfeits their rewards, but never burns principal, so stakers face no risk of capital loss from validator behavior

Fast finality

2-second target block time (real-world average ~2.33s) with near-instant transaction confirmation

Low fees

Negligible gas costs compared to Ethereum and most L2s

Enterprise adoption

XDC Network is used for trade finance, tokenized assets, and institutional applications

Growing ecosystem

Active DeFi protocols, NFT marketplaces, and developer tooling

For partners evaluating which networks to support, XDC offers a unique combination of institutional-grade infrastructure, no principal-stake slashing, and growing adoption.

Why Institutions Prefer Delegated Infrastructure

Why Institutions Choose PrimeStaking

Running an independent XDC validator requires:

10,000,000 XDC locked per validator
24/7 infrastructure monitoring
Validator maintenance and upgrades
Security and key management
Internal operational risk controls

PrimeStaking abstracts this complexity into a managed institutional staking layer, allowing partners to access XDC staking rewards without operating validator infrastructure internally.

This enables faster deployment, lower operational overhead, and scalable staking infrastructure for exchanges and institutional partners.