🪙arBERO
Liquid Staking Token for hiBERO
arBERO is Arbera's liquid staking token designed to reinforce long-term alignment across the Beradrome ecosystem by locking BERO into hiBERO, reducing market sell pressure, and increasing protocol influence. This is a new liquid staking, voting power aggregator, and smart emission router. arBERO’s flywheel benefits Arbera, Beradrome, and Berachain.
📈 Why arBERO?
By converting oBERO into hiBERO-backed arBERO:
Market dumping of BERO is reduced, helping sustain high prices.
APR on Beradrome stays elevated, since oBERO rewards retain value.
Voting power grows with arBERO, creates stronger influence on emissions and bribes.
Emission feedback loop: More emissions → more Den incentives → more bribes → more arBERO minted → more emissions directed.
Staking allows for consistent reward sharing and helps maintain price action on oBERO plus HONEY loans through arBERO.
⚙️ How arBERO Works
1. Farming arBERO
Users deposit into ARBERA DEN LPs. The LP’s farm arBERO LST as rewards. arBERO is also available by purchase from the market.
arBERO is minted by sending oBERO to arBERO Multisig.
arBERO is minted proportionally to arBERO Multisig voting power (e.g. if there is 100 arBERO, but multisig voting power is 200 hiBERO/BERO/oBERO, then each arBERO has 2 voting power, thus for 1 oBERO (1 voting power), user receives 0.5 arBERO).
The arBERO Multisig converts all oBERO to BERO on a weekly schedule by paying 1 HONEY to Beradrome per oBERO. The BERO is then staked into hiBERO (voting power), and 0.975 HONEY is borrowed back per hiBERO staked. This allows the protocol to later repay 1 HONEY to unlock 1 BERO, enabling eventual redemption while maintaining active governance power.
2. Staking arBERO
Users are encouraged to stake arBERO to receive starBERO, which shares hiBERO yields.
Yields come from Beradrome fees, protocol bribes, BGT bribes, and any protocol-owned BERO emissions.
90 % of the rewards are provided to starBERO stakers. A 10% fee is taken by Arbera on all harvested rewards before distribution (except for farmed oBERO, BERO and HONEY, which are used to autocompound arBERO voting power and pay for oBERO exercising).
3. Reward Claim Mechanics
When claiming arBERO as rewards (e.g., from Den LPs):
User options:
Stake arBERO to receive starBERO.
Provide Liquidity for arBERO LP - Deposit into arBERO DEN to receive brarBERO and stake it into the LP (brarBERO - brLBGT).
Sell arBERO on the open market (brarBERO - brLBGT ) through the DEN LP.
Users will likely be able to sell arBERO at a premium minus fees because of the autocompounding rewards and voting power to further fuel the flywheel.
🧠 arBERO Multisig
The arBERO multisig acts as the centralized coordinator of voting power and yield strategy:
Votes weekly on Beradrome pool emissions before each epoch flip.
The Arbera Multisig claims voting rewards (bribes) multiple times per week and distributes them to starBERO holders. The rewards are split, 90% goes to starBERO. 10% to the Arbera protocol.
oBERO/BERO yield is used to autocompound voting power by converting to BERO and then staking into hiBERO.
HONEY yield is allocated to offset the cost of converting oBERO into BERO, reducing the net expense of exercising voting power.
🧱 No Native Liquidity
arBERO is not tradable directly on open markets. Instead:
The only source of liquidity is the brarBERO Den.
Users wrap or unwrap arBERO via the Den to enter or exit positions.
This intentional friction adds stickiness to staking and limits speculative dumping.
🔁 Flywheel Summary
Users earn arBERO from providing liquidity.
Claiming rewards mints arBERO, locking hiBERO.
arBERO stakers earn bribes.
Voting power increases, directing more emissions to Arbera.
More arBERO is minted, repeating the cycle.
📚 Glossary
oBERO – Liquid reward token from Beradrome.
hiBERO – Locked governance/voting power.
arBERO – Liquid staking token representing hiBERO voting power.
starBERO – Staked arBERO that earns protocol rewards.
brarBERO – Arbera’s Den LP holding arBERO liquidity.
Multisig – Arbera-run address controlling hiBERO voting and yield claims.
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