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# Architecture

Aftermath Liquid Staking protocol functionality completely relies on Sui Staking Framework. From the high level view the protocol may be treated as a proxy which holds non-fungible staking entities (StakedSui) provided by Sui Framework and emits liquid afSUI tokens. The core functionality is implemented in the AftermathLSD package.