PoS blockchains face stake-centralization issues. Users tend to choose best performing validators on historical basis, which cause vote centralization and increased power control. Stader builds middle ware to allow unlocking of the staked liquidity while automating validator management based on tiers to maintain a healthy decentralization and slashing optimization.

This means, an user no longer has to ponder over different validators or collect multiple rewards, everything is aggregated under one umbrella.

Since it launch, how has Stader been welcome by users ?

Tracking deposits to Stader's Liquid Staking contract, we can see 3810 Depositors have deposited around 700,000 LUNA

How has these varied over time ?

In the above data, we can notice major spikes on December 7. This was in response to Stader's announcement of Liquidity staking rewards. In order to facilitate instant unlock, Stader decided to create a LUNA - LUNAX pool on Terraswap. In order to bring in liquidity, users were incentivized with Stader Governance tokens, which created this massive inbound volume