Katana KAT Pre-staking is live. vKAT pre-stakers can earn 3x voting power and rewards for the first 8 weeks. The chain-wide ve(3,3) economy is coming soon

Katana Network has launched KAT pre‑staking in its app, allowing users to lock KAT ahead of the full staking and governance rollout and receive boosted voting power and rewards via the protocol’s ve(3,3)-style design. This pre‑staking phase is positioned as the on-ramp into Katana’s upcoming chain‑wide ve(3,3) economy, centered on vKAT (voting KAT) and avKAT (auto-compounding voting KAT) that will govern emissions across the DeFi-focused Layer 2. According to Katana’s announcement, early pre‑stakers who lock KAT into vKAT receive 3x vote and reward weight for the first eight weeks, alongside a 35% APR guaranteed over a 60‑day period, with pre‑staking live directly in the Katana app. This aligns with Katana’s broader tokenomics, where KAT on its own carries no governance rights; users must lock into vKAT or delegate via avKAT to gain voting power over liquidity gauges and emissions across integrated protocols such as Sushi and other DeFi venues on the network. The ve(3,3) model, adapted here as a chain‑wide system rather than a single‑protocol mechanism, is designed to concentrate liquidity, direct incentives where vKAT holders vote, and make KAT emissions more sustainable by tying them to long-term locked positions. The pre‑staking launch follows Katana’s earlier Pre‑Launch and pre‑TGE campaigns, where users deposited assets into Yearn-powered vaults to earn “Krates” NFTs and a pro‑rata share of 70M KAT, and where centralized exchanges such as OKX and KuCoin have since listed or distributed KAT rewards as the token went live. By activating pre‑staking and signaling the imminent rollout of the full ve(3,3) “Armory” (vKAT/avKAT locker, gauge voting, and reward routing), Katana is moving from pre-launch incentive programs into its intended steady-state governance phase, in which KAT holders actively control how emissions are allocated across the Layer‑2 DeFi ecosystem.

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