Understanding Zircuit: A Must-Do Project Backed by Binance Labs That Rewards Restaking with Points (With Participation Guide)
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Understanding Zircuit: A Must-Do Project Backed by Binance Labs That Rewards Restaking with Points (With Participation Guide)
In a year of booming airdrops, active engagement and participation set the baseline.
Navigating Web3 tides with focused insightsWritten by: TechFlow
Three months ago, we introduced Zircuit's product model and points campaign.
Today, Binance has officially announced its investment in Zircuit. Although the specific funding amount remains undisclosed, this move further raises expectations for the project’s future airdrop.
Currently, the campaign to earn points via restaking on Zircuit is still ongoing, and developers can also earn points by building applications for the platform.
If you're still unfamiliar with Zircuit and its points program, this earlier article is worth revisiting—it walks you through how to interact step by step.
The restaking sector this year is becoming increasingly competitive.
Not only are there numerous restaking protocols linked to EigenLayer, but even infrastructure projects not directly related are now tapping into this high-traffic, high-yield trend—leveraging the yield-generating nature of restaked assets to inject more liquidity into their own chains.
On February 23, Zircuit—a zk-Rollup backed by Pantera and Dragonfly—announced a new initiative on social media: Zircuit Staking. This allows users to deposit native ETH or liquid staking and restaking tokens into Zircuit to earn both project points and native restaking rewards.
This means there’s a new destination for maximizing returns from layered liquid staking tokens—a fresh way to get more value out of one asset.
If you've previously participated actively in EigenLayer-related restaking projects, you can now put your LRT holdings to good use by depositing them into Zircuit—maximizing yield while also positioning yourself for a potential Zircuit airdrop.
Given Zircuit's backing by top-tier VCs and its partnerships with multiple LRT projects, taking part in this staking campaign could become the next hot topic in the LRT space.
To help you better understand Zircuit, this article provides a brief overview of its business model and explains how to participate in staking to earn points.
What is Zircuit?
Zircuit is a fully EVM-compatible zk Rollup currently in testnet phase.
We won’t go deep into the concept of zk Rollups here—you can think of it simply as an Ethereum Layer 2 using zero-knowledge technology, designed primarily to solve Ethereum’s scalability and efficiency issues, enabling faster and smoother transactions.
Its architecture consists of three main components:
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The sequencer, which processes transactions and builds L2 blocks
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The prover, which generates validity proofs for these blocks
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The smart contracts that interact with the L1 system
Compared to OP-style rollups, Zircuit achieves fast finality as a zkEVM Rollup, eliminating the need for a challenge period when withdrawing funds.
Zircuit uses parallel proof generation to accelerate proof creation and leverages proof aggregation to produce a single, on-chain verifiable proof. By breaking down the circuit into specialized parts and aggregating evidence, Zircuit achieves higher efficiency and lower operational costs. The final validity proof is an aggregated proof covering a batch of L2 blocks.
Another notable feature of Zircuit is its Sequencer-Level Security (SLS), which helps prevent malicious transactions or hacker attacks. As this involves technical details, we won't elaborate here—interested readers can visit the project’s documentation for more information.
Another point many people care about:
Zircuit uses native ETH and currently has no governance token (though it may introduce one in the future).
Therefore, farming points through interaction to position for a future airdrop has become the most practical focus at this stage.
Restaking to Earn Points: A New Way to Maximize Returns
As everyone knows, the biggest pain point in yield farming is opportunity cost—limited capital means if you farm A, you often can’t farm B.
In today’s increasingly competitive airdrop landscape, where protocols fiercely compete for user attention and liquidity, being able to generate multiple yields from a single asset is naturally the most attractive option.
Zircuit takes this idea to the extreme—today it officially launched its points-earning campaign, and the method requires no additional capital:
Deposit restaking tokens you already hold into Zircuit to achieve multi-layered yield generation.
First, let’s look at the rules for earning Zircuit points.
According to the official announcement, users can earn Zircuit Points by completing various tasks within the ecosystem, which will be redeemable for future rewards. The goal is to incentivize community participation and help Zircuit bootstrap native liquidity. Users earn points through staking, but those who migrate their assets to the Zircuit mainnet upon launch will receive the highest rewards.
In other words, staking to earn points is just the current phase—there may be cross-chain asset incentives later on.
Focusing on the current points-earning campaign, the first question to address is: “Which assets can I deposit to earn points?”
Zircuit categorizes eligible deposits into two types:
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Native ETH, which will be returned in wETH form upon withdrawal
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Various LST/LRT tokens, including those from Swell, Renzo, KelpDAO, EtherFi, Liquid Collective, and Lido
However, note that Zircuit strongly encourages depositing LST/LRT tokens because different assets have varying point-earning efficiencies:
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Depositing ETH gives a multiplier of 0.5x
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Depositing LRT/LST gives a multiplier of 1x
In other words, the point-earning efficiency of native ETH is only half that of LST/LRT deposits.
Secondly, we believe Zircuit’s points campaign is particularly friendly to small participants.
There is no minimum deposit requirement to earn Zircuit Points, and the above multipliers remain unchanged regardless of deposit size. Additionally, there is no unstaking period—you can withdraw anytime, offering greater flexibility.
Staking Guide
Below is a detailed walkthrough of how to participate in staking.
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First, click here to access Zircuit’s official staking page. You can enter the referral code S5WN47 during registration and wallet connection. Using this code grants an extra 15% bonus in OG referral points when staking.
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On the following page, deposit any supported LST/LRT token.
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Enter the amount you wish to stake, then click Confirm below. Sign the transaction in your wallet to complete the staking process.
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The total staking rewards can be broken down as follows:
Total Staking Rewards = Staking APR + Restaking APR + EigenLayer Points + LRT Points (e.g., ezETH, rswETH, rsETH) + Zircuit Points (future rewards)
This makes it easy to achieve multi-layered yield generation.
However, high profitability and low barriers naturally attract crowds.
At the time of writing, there is limited content about Zircuit available in Chinese communities; over time, more users will inevitably join the staking and points-earning race.
Increased competition means potentially lower individual returns, but greater participation also increases the likelihood of reward distribution.
In this airdrop-heavy year, active participation sets the floor; the ceiling depends on diversified strategies and time.
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