Ether.fi has launched Katana pre-deposit vaults for weETH (and WETH/eETH), allowing its users to allocate Ether.fi liquid restaking tokens into Katana’s ecosystem ahead of full mainnet deployment. During this pre-launch phase, deposits are staged to be bridged to the Katana chain once live, with the vault infrastructure built on Veda and integrated into Ether.fi’s Liquid product suite. The design targets DeFi users seeking higher yields and deeper liquidity by funnelling restaked ETH liquidity into Katana’s lending strategies and other DeFi primitives from day one. Depositors into the Ether.fi x Katana vault earn a stacked reward mix: ETHFI incentives from Ether.fi, KAT incentives from Katana, plus underlying DeFi yield and the native staking yield from weETH itself. According to Ether.fi’s documentation, phase‑one deposits are eligible for a pool of 250,000 ETHFI, 10 bps of total KAT supply, Morpho lending yield, and weETH restaking yield, provided deposits remain for at least 30 days after Katana mainnet activates. Once Katana is live, the pre-deposited weETH is automatically deployed into strategies such as Morpho-based lending, professionally managed by Sentora, while still allowing withdrawals after launch, giving restakers a way to secure early positioning in the new chain’s incentive program without a hard lock but with clear duration requirements to receive full rewards.

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