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# Staking & Yield

*Earn additional yield on spot positions by moving them to your dedicated Staking EVM MPC Vault, where Arkis's operations team stakes them on your behalf — while the staked balance keeps counting toward your portfolio margin.*

Staking operations are requested via the support bot in your designated Telegram group (The Telegram Support Bot).

### The staking flow

1. **Acquire a spot position** on an exchange sub-account (e.g. buy HYPE spot on Hyperliquid).
2. **Request a transfer to your Staking EVM Vault** — a dedicated on-chain address assigned exclusively to your organisation.
3. **Arkis stakes on your behalf** once tokens arrive (e.g. HYPE → kHYPE via a yield protocol).
4. The staked position **earns yield while remaining inside Arkis's risk framework**.

> **Example request** *"Please withdraw my 1,000,000 HYPE spot from Hyperliquid sub-account red-tiger to my staking vault and stake it into Kinetic HYPE to convert it into kHYPE."*

To unstake, name the asset, the exact amount, and the redemption route:

> *"Unstake 100,000 kHYPE using native redeem from Staking EVM Vault with address 0x8sx...."*

### Why the vault matters: portfolio margin on staked assets

The Arkis margin engine **includes your Staking EVM Vault balance in your cluster's Health Factor** alongside your exchange positions. So:

* **Cross-component margin** — staked tokens in the vault and your exchange positions (e.g. a short perp) are evaluated *together*, not in isolation.
* **Carry-trade enablement** — hold a **long staked spot** in the vault and a **short perp** on an exchange; the engine treats them as **offsetting**, improving your Health Factor.

> **Example — leveraged HYPE carry trade**
>
> 1. Post $1M USDC as collateral and borrow $5M into a Margin Account.
> 2. Arkis moves $6M USDC to your Hyperliquid sub-account.
> 3. On Hyperliquid, buy HYPE spot and open a short HYPE perp (delta-neutral).
> 4. Request Arkis to move the HYPE spot to your Staking EVM Vault and stake it (e.g. into kHYPE).
> 5. The engine now evaluates the **vault (staked HYPE)** and the **Hyperliquid perp** together — the long and short legs offset, giving the whole carry trade **portfolio-margin treatment** and a more capital-efficient Health Factor than valuing each leg alone.