Soft Staking is an innovative income-generating model for holding cryptocurrencies**, allowing users to earn returns without locking their assets or running nodes, while fully maintaining liquidity of their funds. Unlike traditional staking (which requires freezing assets to participate in on-chain verification), **Soft Staking is technically managed by exchanges or decentralized platforms**: users only need to deposit tokens into accounts that support this feature; the platform automatically delegates the tokens to validation nodes and distributes the block rewards proportionally to users, typically presented in the form of 'Annual Percentage Yield (APY)'.
**The core advantages are 'zero threshold' and 'flexibility'**:
1. **Instant exit**: Assets can be traded or transferred at any time, with no lock-up period restrictions;
2. **Low-risk participation**: Avoids the technical risks of operating self-built nodes;
3. **Compound appreciation**: Earnings are automatically distributed daily/weekly, supporting reinvestment to enhance returns.
Such earnings mostly come from **PoS public chain inflation rewards** (such as ETH2.0, ADA) or **exchange subsidies** (to attract users to retain their funds). It is suitable for investors seeking 'stable appreciation of idle assets' while valuing liquidity, making it a preferred entry choice for crypto wealth management.
