Every DeFi app wants a yield feature, but none want to build the liquidation math that comes with it.That trade-off is why leveraged staking, colloquially “looping”, has become one of the most-used strategies in DeFi for a few key players, while staying mostly absent from the many apps that could offer it as a feature. The strategy itself is simple to describe: take a liquid staking token (LST), supply it as collateral, borrow the unstaked version of the same asset, exchange that back into the LST and supply it again. Repeat a few times and a modest yield spread compounds into something much larger. Building it safely, with loan-to-value limits, liquidation buffers and price-correlation checks that hold up when markets move fast, is a different problem entirely.Balanced, a design-focused DeFi app, shipped that feature this week without writing any of that logic. Its new widget catalogue includes a Vault widget running three leveraged staking strategies, on JitoSOL, weETH and wstETH, funded by a deposit of any asset from any of the 20+ networks that SODAX supports. The strategy runs on a vault primitive inside the SODAX SDK, and Balanced is the first live production example of a builder calling it directly.The strategy has already outgrown "power-user trick"Looping isn't new and it isn't niche. Liquid restaking protocols alone hold roughly $7 billion in total value locked industry-wide, according to DefiLlama, and a meaningful share of that capital sits there because idle collateral earns nothing on its own. In 2025, Aave raised its loan-to-value cap on wstETH against WETH to 95%, a change that Index Coop cited directly when it launched Smart Loops, a productized looping vault that reported a seven-day yield above 8% on a wstETH strategy. JitoSOL, one of the three assets in Balanced's Vault widget, leads Solana LSTs by total value locked and posts a yield meaningfully above a typical LST because it captures MEV tips on top of standard validator rewards, per DefiLlama.All of this adds up to Leveraged Staking being one of the most used strategies in DeFi at this time, offering a lower (but not zero) risk profile with collateral being closely tied in price to its borrowed asset.Ship Leveraged Staking Vaults, free of chargeSODAX's Leveraged Staking Vaults are now a callable part of their execution system. Calling it from your product is a handful of function calls to bring cross-chain yield vaults to your users, not a rebuild. And can be accessed through SODAX APIs, their Builder MCP Server for agents, or by consuming the whole SDK:const vault = sodax.leverageYield.getVault('lsodaWEETH');const intentResult = await sodax.leverageYield.deposit({ vault: vault.vault, srcChainKey: ChainKeys.ARBITRUM_MAINNET, srcAddress: '0xYourArbitrumEOA...', inputToken: '0x...weETHonArbitrum', inputAmount: 1_000_000_000_000_000_000n, minOutputAmount: 900_000_000_000_000_000n,});if (intentResult.ok) { const swapResult = await sodax.leverageYield.vaultSwap({ ...intentResult.value, walletProvider: evmWalletProvider, });}Deposits and withdrawals are funded from any network SODAX supports, not just where the vault lives or the native network for the underlying asset. Entering or exiting a position is just an intent-based exchange under the hood which opens up this primitive to more developers, and more users. Builders can also attach a partner fee to both directions of that flow and claim it through SODAX's fee infrastructure, so the feature can generate revenue.Balanced is already liveBalanced has already shipped these leveraged staking vaults in their latest release. The market already agrees leveraged staking is worth offering, SODAX has built the tools so this successful DeFi primitive can now yield benefits for users and developers from all ecosystems. On Balanced, users can deposit assets from across 13 blockchain networks directly into strategies that derive yield from ETH or SOL staking. Your application can replicate this today across 20+ blockchain networks, bringing more accessible yield to users, and generating protocol fees which can be set during your build.The vaults feature is documented in full at docs.sodax.com, and the most direct way to scope it against an existing codebase is to point an AI coding assistant at the SODAX Builders MCP, which gives it live access to SODAX's networks, tokens and rates while it reads through the integration. The rest of what SODAX coordinates across networks, beyond this one vault, is at sodax.com and the live implementation can be found direct with SODAX’s longstanding partner, Balanced.