# Key Features

Elys Network offers a suite of powerful features aimed at maximizing earning potential through flexible staking, trading, and liquidity opportunities. Each feature is designed to cater to various user strategies, from passive income generation to leveraged trading, while keeping user assets secure and efficiently managed.

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## [<mark style="color:blue;">**Liquidity Mining**</mark>](/docs/core-features/earn/liquidity-mining.md)

* **Overview**: Elys Network’s Liquidity Mining feature enables users to earn rewards by adding assets to liquidity pools. These pools facilitate trading across the network, with contributors **earning a share of the transaction fees generated by activity within each pool based on both trading activities and Perpetual activities**.
* **Benefits**:
  * **Earn Passive Rewards**: Receive a portion of the fees from each trade in the pool, from Perpetual activities, Transactions fees.
  * **Dynamic Pool Management**: Elys’s **Smart-Shielded pools** reduces impermanent loss to nearly zero, ensuring more stable liquidity management for liquidity providers with less risks.
* **Explore More**: Learn how to add liquidity, manage pool assets, and maximize your rewards through [<mark style="color:blue;">Liquidity Mining</mark>](/docs/core-features/earn/liquidity-mining.md#how-it-works)<mark style="color:blue;">.</mark>

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## [<mark style="color:blue;">**Simple Staking**</mark>](/docs/core-features/earn/simple-staking.md)

* **Overview**: Simple Staking allows users to lock their ELYS / EDEN tokens in the network to passively earn rewards from platform activity.
* **Benefits**:
  * **Passive Rewards**: Earn rewards without needing to actively manage positions or participate in trading from a wide range of features : Liquidity mining / Perpetual / Transaction fees.
  * **Scalable Rewards**: As network usage grows, so do the rewards for stakers, aligning benefits with Elys Network’s success.
* **Explore More**: Find out how to start staking, claim rewards, and understand the long-term benefits of [<mark style="color:blue;">ELYS / EDEN token staking</mark>](/docs/core-features/earn/simple-staking.md)<mark style="color:blue;">.</mark>

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## [<mark style="color:blue;">**Perpetuals**</mark>](/docs/core-features/earn/simple-staking.md)

* **Overview**: Elys Network’s Perpetuals feature allows users to engage in perpetual trading contracts with leverage. This advanced trading option provides the flexibility to take long or short positions, enabling users to increase their position size while managing risk effectively.
* **Benefits**:
  * **Leverage for potential returns**: Gain exposure to larger positions with smaller capital requirements through adjustable leverage.
  * **Continuous Trading Opportunities**: Perpetual contracts have no expiry date, allowing users to maintain positions for as long as they choose.
* **Explore More**: Learn how[ <mark style="color:blue;">perpetual</mark>](/docs/core-features/perpetuals.md) contracts work, how to set leverage, and the risk management strategies that optimize this trading option.

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## [<mark style="color:blue;">**Leverage LP**</mark>](/docs/core-features/leverage-lp.md)

* **Overview**: With Leverage LP, liquidity providers can amplify their pool contributions by borrowing additional assets, increasing their potential returns. Leveraged liquidity provision offers greater earning potential while benefiting from Elys Network’s dynamic pool management, which reduces impermanent loss risks.
* **Benefits**:
  * **Boosted Positions**: Maximize your position in liquidity pools with leverage, earning a larger share of fees and rewards while exposing yourself to potential increased risks.
* **Explore More**: Discover how to use[ <mark style="color:blue;">leverage in liquidity provision</mark>](/docs/core-features/leverage-lp.md), manage collateral, and optimize returns through strategic LP management.

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## [<mark style="color:blue;">**Vaults**</mark>](/docs/core-features/earn/vaults.md)

* **Overview**: Vaults allow users to deposit tokens into a lending pool for users to borrow for Leverage LP positios. Lenders earn rewards in USDC (from fees), the vault token (from open interest, added continuously back into their vault lending position), and bonius EDEN rewards for select vaults as determined by governance.
* **Benefits**:
  * **Single Token Pool options**: Earn a yield from your individual assets without the pairing needed for liquidity pools, with no lockups or unbonding periods.&#x20;
* **Explore More**: Discover how to use vaults [here](/docs/core-features/earn/vaults.md).


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