# Harmony and Stake DAO Announce Strategic DeFi Partnership
**URL:** https://talk.harmony.one/t/harmony-and-stake-dao-announce-strategic-defi-partnership/8499
**Category:** Grants
**Created:** [December 30, 2021, 1:13pm UTC](https://talk.harmony.one/t/harmony-and-stake-dao-announce-strategic-defi-partnership/8499 "2021-12-30T13:13:56Z")
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### Author:  [@lij](https://talk.harmony.one/u/lij)
#### Post date: [December 30, 2021, 1:13pm UTC](https://talk.harmony.one/t/harmony-and-stake-dao-announce-strategic-defi-partnership/8499/1 "2021-12-30T13:13:56Z")
## Name of Project
StakeDAO
## Proposal overview
We are excited to announce our most recent partnership with Stake DAO to make the most sophisticated DeFi strategies easily accessible to anyone. Stake DAO brings the best of the entire DeFi ecosystem, across multiple chains, into a single intuitive platform. Stake DAO will soon be launching it’s ONE validator and offer staking-as-a-service to the ONE community. We will now be working together to create innovative strategies and bring the best of DeFi to the Harmony ecosystem.
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## Proposal ask
USD $1M ONEs initially, up to $3M ONEs in total based on metrics.
## Metrics for success
Using $1M ONEs, StakeDAO targets $25M+ in TVL on Harmony. With $3M ONEs, StakeDAO targets $100M+ in TVL.
## External links
Stake DAO is a non-custodial platform that enables anyone to easily grow their crypto portfolio. It is built on top of decentralized blockchain protocols, offering a seamless way for people to grow, track, and control assets right from their wallet. As a project, we aim to allow anyone — with any level of knowledge of crypto — to have easy access to the market’s most competitive products and strategies.
> **[Stake DAO | The Liquid Lockers protocol.](https://www.stakedao.org/)**
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> Stake DAO is a non-custodial liquid staking platform focused on governance tokens
[https://academy.stakedao.org](https://academy.stakedao.org)
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### Author:  [@lij](https://talk.harmony.one/u/lij)
#### Post date: [March 1, 2022, 4:42am UTC](https://talk.harmony.one/t/harmony-and-stake-dao-announce-strategic-defi-partnership/8499/2 "2022-03-01T04:42:51Z")
initial $1m funding: [Harmony Blockchain Explorer](https://explorer.harmony.one/tx/0x6cc2e7f775f0c904e1d8c81443fbe047e6d132df079bb721bf9f45d0a8804769)
second tranche of $2m funding: [Harmony Blockchain Explorer](https://explorer.harmony.one/tx/0x2194175a813376da538bae212107d55cb0c8f205b6540f1a716144b1711bc685)