Staking


Finance

Circulating Supply for The Graph’s GRT Token Jumps With Major Framework Ventures Unlock

Before Framework Ventures’ on-chain actions, the 99 million GRT, worth roughly $7 million, had been sitting in The Graph’s staking contract since February and March 2021.

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Finance

Alkimiya Raises $7.2M Funding Round to Grow Cash Flow Hedging Protocol for Miners, Stakers

The funding round was led by Castle Island Ventures and 1kx. It included contributions from Circle Ventures, Coinbase Ventures and Dragonfly Capital Partners

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Tech

Staked ETH Passes 16M

The $22.38 billion worth of staked ETH will be impossible to withdraw until Ethereum’s next big upgrade.

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Tech

Ethereum Upgrade Could Make It Harder to Lose All Your Crypto

Account abstraction – a concept recently embraced by Visa – could make Ethereum wallets significantly more user friendly.

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Tech

Ethereum in 2023: Here’s What to Look Forward To

Staked ETH withdrawals, scalability and more cool events are on the horizon for Ethereum.

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Markets

Ethereum's Upcoming Shanghai Upgrade Powers Lido DAO, SWISE, RPL Tokens Higher

Governance tokens of top liquid staking products rally as Ethereum's Shanghai upgrade is set to "de-risk" ether staking by opening ETH withdrawals.

Principales tokens de gobernanza de staking con liquidez. (Coingecko)

Finance

Chainlink Whale ‘Oldwhite’ Used More Than 150 Wallets to Avoid Staking Limits

The crypto wallet labeled “Oldwhite” on OpenSea is connected to over 1 million staked LINK tokens, blockchain data shows, even though Chainlink officials tried to get "greater inclusion" from a broad base of participants by limiting each wallet to 7,000 LINK tokens.

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Finance

Chainlink’s First Staking Pool Pulls in $170M of LINK Tokens, Hitting Community Limit After 2 Days

Staking started Tuesday, and 24.27 million LINK tokens were locked in by Thursday to secure the network.

THORSwap has extended its product offering. (Akinori UEMURA/Unsplash)

Tech

Ethereum Developers Target March 2023 for Release of Staked Ether

Staked ETH withdrawals are coming in the spring, while "proto-danksharding" will follow in the subsequent hard fork in the fall.

Shanghai (Edward He/Unsplash)

Markets

Chainlink Staking Opens With Initial $51M Inflow

Staking started Tuesday, and 7 million LINK tokens were locked in the first 30 minutes to secure the network.

Chainlink co-founder Sergey Nazarov (Chainlink)