stNEAR means staked-NEAR, is an ERC-20 token representing a share of the total stake Meta Poool is managing. After staking, you can use your stNEAR in the DEFI space while still earning rewards. stNEAR increase every 12hs as staking-rewards are added to the pool.

Metapool for Aurora facilitates liquid staking for Aurora/Metamask users:

• Periodically, we automatically bridge wNEAR from Aurora to NEAR-Native and stake it via Metapool.
• We also bridge back stNEAR, to replenish this contract's buffers

Yes. We maintain a buffer of bridged stNEAR in this contract to support your stake, but large operations can empty the buffer. The buffer is replenished automatically every 5 minutes, so in case there's not enough stNEAR, you should wait 5 five minutes and retry. The amounts in the buffers are displayed in the front page.

Yes!. This contract facilitates liquid staking and unstaking in Aurora, but you can also perform the process manually. You will need an account in NEAR-Native. The steps are: You bridge your wNEAR from Aurora to NEAR-Native, then you unwrap the wNEAR to get NEAR in your wallet. Take the NEAR and stake at metapool.app for NEAR-Native, you'll get stNEAR, take the stNEAR and bridge it back into Aurora.

Yes!. This contract facilitates liquid staking and unstaking in Aurora, but you can also perform the process manually. You will need an account in NEAR-Native. The steps are: You bridge your stNEAR from Aurora to NEAR-Native, then you go to metapool.app for NEAR-Native, there you will be able to either liquid-unstake for a fee getting your NEAR immediately, or use the delay-unstake option with no fee but with a wait period of 2-4 days.

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