Staking


Tech

Blockchain Staking Provider Chorus One Expands to Peer-to-Peer Network Urbit

Chorus One's bet on Urbit's future growth is described by executives as a natural extension of the company's staking services on blockchains including Ethereum, Solana, Cosmos and Polkadot.

Josh Lehman, executive director, Urbit Foundation, spoke at Consensus 2023 in Austin, Texas, in April. (Shutterstock/CoinDesk)

Finance

Coinbase CEO Armstrong Says Not Shutting Down Staking Service

The country’s largest exchange will continue to offer staking services despite facing lawsuits over the service from federal and state regulators.

Portrait of Coinbase co-founder and CEO Brian Armstrong photographed by Michelle Watt in San Francisco, CA.

Finance

Zodia Custody to Offer Staking to Institutional Clients Through Blockdaemon

The firm said it is the first bank-owned custodian to offer staking services to institutional clients.

Standard Chartered, majority owner of Zodia Custody. (Shutterstock)

Markets

Crypto Lender Celsius’ $800M Ether Staking Shake-Up Stretches Ethereum Validator Queue to 44 Days

The embattled crypto lender has deposited $745 million of ETH to staking contracts in the last two days, significantly stressing the already-long waiting time to deploy new validators to the Ethereum network.

Celsius deposits ETH into staking contracts (Arkham Intelligence)

Markets

Ether Balance on Exchanges Nears All-Time Low

The drop comes as the number of staked ether has surged.

Ethereum (ethereum.org)

Policy

Crypto Conglomerates, DeFi Targets of EU Financial Stability Watchdog Concerns

Risks from smart contracts, high leverage and crypto staking and lending may imply a need for new regulations, the European Systemic Risk Board said.

ESRB Chair Christine Lagarde (ECB/Flickr)

Markets

Number of Ether Staked Has Surged by 4.4 Million Since Shapella Upgrade

Staking refers to locking coins in the blockchain network in return for rewards.

The number of ether staked in the network has surged to a record high of 22.58 million. (Glassnode)

Markets

Ethereum Staking Needs Its (Honest) LIBOR

A standardized ETH staking benchmark could unleash a new generation of financial products that appeal to TradFi.

(Scott Olson/Getty Images)

Tech

Origin Protocol Enters Competitive Ether Yield Market With OETH Offering

OETH is a yield-bearing, ether-pegged token, offering an easy way to maximize yield from ETH staking using protocols, such as Curve Finance.

(Micheile/Unsplash)

Tech

Asymmetry, ‘ETF’ for Liquid Staking Tokens, Raises $3M Round From Ecco Capital, Ankr and Others

The crypto project’s safETH token represents a basket of liquid staking tokens from Lido, Rocketpool and Frax.

The Asymmetry safETH token represents a basket of liquid staking derivatives. (Bartolomeo Cavarozzi/Metropolitan Art Museum, modified by CoinDesk)