Staked Blog (2)

CoinDesk: To Stake or No? That’s the Eth 2.0 Question

📰 Staked Media Mentions

Stakers need to weigh the complexity of running nodes on a major chain with the risk of being slashed for failing to stay up persistently or for other issues such as double-signing. Ethereum 2.0 staking requires the commitment and hassle of maintaining a node for years. Those inclined to support network security and earn steady yield may still shy away from the obligations of regularly tending to their servers.

That’s where staking-as-a-service providers come in – and again people have choices to make. As with many areas of cryptocurrency, a core decision is whether to give up your asset to a provider, or to choose a non-custodial service instead. At my company, Staked, we believe investors should have help in earning yield without having to give up custody of their assets.

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Decrypt: Ethereum 2.0 Is Set to Launch, But It Won’t Be Ready to Use

Ogilvie said that the most aggressive estimates for Phase 1 is six months and two years for Phase 2. “The more conservative estimates are significantly longer than that. So you're talking years before you have a full transition from ETH 1.0 to ETH 2.0.”

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Fantastic coverage from CoinDesk and Decrypt!

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👉 Deposit to the deposit contract today to secure your spot

👉 Schedule time to speak with a Staked representative

⚖️ The Graph Network Governance

On Thursday, November 19, 2020 at 12 pm EST, Jonathan Marcus, Staked Co-founder & COO, will be hosting an ETH staking webinar. Jonathan will be doing a deep dive on ETH staking, covering everything a network participant needs to know.

Topics that will be covered during the webinar:

How to stake ETH with Staked
The role a node plays in securing the Ethereum network
The returns available from ETH staking
ETH 2.0 timeline and important dates

Learn more:

👉 Register for the webinar today!

📊 Current Staking Yields

Staked currently supports 30+ different proof of stake crypto assets including Cosmos, Polkadot, Algorand, Tezos, Dash, Decred, Orbs, Horizen, Livepeer, Factom, Iris, Terra, Kava, Cardano, v.systems, Secret Network, Edgeware, and Celo.

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👉 Get in touch with a Staked representative about getting started!

📊 Robo-Advisor for Yield (RAY)

Currently live on the Ethereum mainnet, the Robo-Advisor for Yield (RAY) is the easiest way to earn the highest yield on your ETH, DAI, USDC, and BUSD holdings.

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Learn more:

👉 Find time to speak with someone from the Staked team here .

📜 Developer Docs

Interested integrating the Robo-Advisor for Yield (RAY) and/or staking-as-a-service into your business today?

Integrating RAY is as simple as dropping in a few lines of code. Furthermore, partners looking to offer staking-as-a-service are able to integrate with our staking infrastructure directly through our API services.

Learn more:

👉 Reply to this email to speak with the Staked team about getting started today!

👉 Find time to speak with someone from the Staked team here .

About Staked

Staked helps institutional investors reliably and securely compound their crypto by 5% — 100% annually through staking and lending. Staked runs validation nodes for proof-of-stake currencies and offers access to on- and off-chain lending options that provide an annualized yield of in-kind currency. Staked’s investors include Pantera Capital, Digital Currency Group, ParaFi Capital, Coinbase Ventures, Winklevoss Capital, Fabric Ventures, Global Brain, and other leading crypto investors.

👉 Contact a Staked representative about staking ETH

Topics: Ethereum, DeFi, Seeking Yield, Eth2

Eth2 Deposit Contract

Posted by Staked on Nov 6, 2020 5:06:15 PM

Seeking Yield by Staked - Issue 86: ⛓️ Tracking Eth2, 📈 Elrond Mainnet Milestones, ⚖️ The Graph Network Governance, 📊 Current Staking and Lending Yields, & More

This is the eighty-sixth issue of Seeking Yield by Staked, a weekly update about the most interesting things happening in crypto asset staking and lending.

⛓️ Tracking Eth2

The purpose of this section is to track the progress of ETH 2.0 development.

The highly anticipated Eth2 deposit contract is now live! The Eth2 phase 0 genesis time has been set for December 1st, 2020 at 12pm UTC.
Danny Ryan of the Ethereum Foundation published an Eth2 update.

Our Eth2 offering will be available on the Staked website early next week. If you hold ETH and would like to learn more about staking, please reply directly to this email or submit your information below.

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👉 Frequently Asked Questions

👉 API documentation for launching lots of validators

👉 Get in touch with a Staked representative to learn more about Elrond staking

📈 Elrond Mainnet Milestones

The Elrond network has seen tremendous growth over the last few months.

Some impressive milestones since genesis:

The Elrond mainnet is only 100 days old and has already surpassed 1 million transactions from 40,000 accounts!
There are now more than 2,000 validators supporting the Elrond network (10 are operated by Staked!).
50% of the eGold (the native Elrond token) supply is locked for staking with yields between 10% to 36% APR.
Launched the Elrond IDE, making it easier than ever to deploy DeFi and Web3 apps to the Elrond blockchain.

We are thrilled to support Elrond and look forward to continued success. Stay tuned for Elrond staking opportunities for Staked customers!

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⚖️ The Graph Network Governance

The Graph core team recently published an excellent blog post describing The Graph's governance. Per the post, The Graph’s decentralized network will be governed by The Graph Council at launch.

This council will be a 6-of-10 multisig that balances the interests of five core stakeholder groups: Indexers, active token holders, the initial team, users and technical domain experts.

Onwards and upwards!

Learn more:

👉 Get in touch with a Staked representative about The Graph Network staking

📊 Current Staking Yields

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👉 Get in touch with a Staked representative about getting started!

📊 Robo-Advisor for Yield (RAY)

Currently live on the Ethereum mainnet, the Robo-Advisor for Yield (RAY) is the easiest way to earn the highest yield on your ETH, DAI, USDC, and BUSD holdings.

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Learn more:

👉 Find time to speak with someone from the Staked team here .

📜 Developer Docs

Interested integrating the Robo-Advisor for Yield (RAY) and/or staking-as-a-service into your business today?

Learn more:

👉 Reply to this email to speak with the Staked team about getting started today!

👉 Find time to speak with someone from the Staked team here .

About Staked

👉 Contact a Staked representative about staking ETH

Topics: Ethereum, The Graph Network, Seeking Yield, Elrond

ETH2 deposit contract is imminent

Posted by Staked on Oct 30, 2020 5:06:32 PM

Seeking Yield by Staked - Issue 85: ⛓️ Tracking ETH 2.0, 🤝 Audius Builds on Solana, 🎉 1,000 tBTC, 📊 Current Staking and Lending Yields, & More

This is the eighty-fifth issue of Seeking Yield by Staked, a weekly update about the most interesting things happening in crypto asset staking and lending.

⛓️ Tracking ETH 2.0

The purpose of this section is to track the progress of ETH 2.0 development.

According to the timeline provided by Danny Ryan of the Ethereum Foundation last week (10/23), the ETH2 deposit contract is expected to go live in approximately one week.

If you hold ETH and would like to learn more about staking, please submit your information below.

Learn more:

👉 Our user-facing experience

👉 API documentation for launching lots of validators

👉 Audius Selects Solana to scale community-owned music streaming

🤝 Audius Builds on Solana

Audius has selected Solana to help scale the network. Over the course of the next year, Audius plans to migrate the Audius content management system (CMS) to the Solana blockchain.

We are excited to see what Audius and Solana build together!

Learn more:

👉 Get in touch with a Staked representative about Audius staking

👉 Get in touch with a Staked representative about Solana staking

🎉 1,000 tBTC

Earlier this week, the number of tBTC on the Ethereum mainnet surpassed 1,000 - a massive milestone for tBTC and the Keep Network.

Onwards and upwards!

Learn more:

👉 Get in touch with a Staked representative about Keep Network staking

📊 Current Staking Yields

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Learn more:

👉 Get in touch with a Staked representative about getting started!

📊 Robo-Advisor for Yield (RAY)

Currently live on the Ethereum mainnet, the Robo-Advisor for Yield (RAY) is the easiest way to earn the highest yield on your ETH, DAI, USDC, and BUSD holdings.

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Learn more:

👉 Find time to speak with someone from the Staked team here .

📜 Developer Docs

Interested integrating the Robo-Advisor for Yield (RAY) and/or staking-as-a-service into your business today?

Learn more:

👉 Reply to this email to speak with the Staked team about getting started today!

👉 Find time to speak with someone from the Staked team here .

About Staked

👉 Contact a Staked representative about staking ETH

Topics: Ethereum, Seeking Yield, NEAR, Solana

Two Weeks...

Posted by Staked on Oct 23, 2020 4:29:24 PM

Seeking Yield by Staked - Issue 84: ⛓️ Tracking ETH 2.0, ✅ NEAR Staking Rewards, 💲 USDC on Solana, 📊 Current Staking and Lending Yields, & More

This is the eighty-fourth issue of Seeking Yield by Staked, a weekly update about the most interesting things happening in crypto asset staking and lending.

⛓️ Tracking ETH 2.0

The purpose of this section is to track the progress of ETH 2.0 development.

According to Danny Ryan of the Ethereum Foundation, the ETH2 deposit contract is set to go live in approximately two weeks.

If you hold ETH and would like to learn more about staking, please submit your information below.

Learn more:

👉 Our user-facing experience

👉 API documentation for launching lots of validators

👉 Follow the NEAR staking instructions to delegate today!

✅ NEAR Staking Rewarss

Just one week after the NEAR community voted to enter Phase 2, NEAR Validators completed a major milestone: the upgrade to enable inflationary rewards. Now all NEAR token holders have the opportunity to earn staking rewards from the network.

Onwards and upwards!

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💲 USDC on Solana

Earlier this week, Solana blockchain become an official chain supporting USDC, continuing the expansion of USDC as an open standard and protocol for fiat digital currency on blockchains.

Please enter your information in the registration form below to register for the webinar.

USDC for Solana will open up exciting new possibilities with a new architecture that will enable applications that require much higher throughput and speed.

Learn more:

👉 Centre Consortium Announces Solana as Official Chain for USDC

📊 Current Staking Yields

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Learn more:

👉 Get in touch with a Staked representative about getting started!

📊 Robo-Advisor for Yield (RAY)

Currently live on the Ethereum mainnet, the Robo-Advisor for Yield (RAY) is the easiest way to earn the highest yield on your ETH, DAI, USDC, and BUSD holdings.

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Learn more:

👉 Find time to speak with someone from the Staked team here .

📜 Developer Docs

Interested integrating the Robo-Advisor for Yield (RAY) and/or staking-as-a-service into your business today?

Learn more:

👉 Reply to this email to speak with the Staked team about getting started today!

👉 Find time to speak with someone from the Staked team here .

About Staked

👉 Contact a Staked representative about staking ETH

Topics: Ethereum, Seeking Yield, NEAR, Solana

NEAR is here ✅

Posted by Staked on Oct 16, 2020 5:18:06 PM

Seeking Yield by Staked - Issue 83: ⛓️ Tracking ETH 2.0, ✅ NEAR Mainnet Phase II, 🖥️ Earning with BTC and ETH Webinar, 📊 Current Staking and Lending Yields, & More

This is the eighty-third issue of Seeking Yield by Staked, a weekly update about the most interesting things happening in crypto asset staking and lending.

⛓️ Tracking ETH 2.0

The purpose of this section is to track the progress of ETH 2.0 development.

There were more than 150k ETH deposited to Zinken by 4,800 validators.
The phase 0 mainnet deposit contract will be released during the next couple of weeks. The deposit contract will be open for ~3-4 weeks, followed by the mainnet chain genesis sometime around November.

If you hold ETH and would like to learn more about staking, please submit your information below.

Learn more:

👉 Our user-facing experience

👉 API documentation for launching lots of validators

👉 Follow the NEAR staking instructions to delegate today!

✅ NEAR Mainnet Phase II

Earlier this week, NEAR Protocol validators and token holders voted to advance the network into its final stage of MainNet. The shift to Phase II means three important things for the network: 1) permissionlessness 2) voting 3) decentralization

We are thrilled to support NEAR at Staked!

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👉 The NEAR MainNet is now Unrestricted and Decentralized

🖥️ Earning with BTC and ETH Webinar

On Wednesday, October 21, 2020 at 12 pm EST, Jonathan Marcus, Staked Co-founder & COO, will be hosting an Earning with BTC and ETH Webinar. Jonathan will be doing a deep dive on several different ways to earn a yield on ETH and BTC.

Please enter your information in the registration form below to register for the webinar.

Learn more:

👉 Earning with BTC and ETH Webinar

📊 Current Staking Yields

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Learn more:

👉 Get in touch with a Staked representative about getting started!

📊 Robo-Advisor for Yield (RAY)

Currently live on the Ethereum mainnet, the Robo-Advisor for Yield (RAY) is the easiest way to earn the highest yield on your ETH, DAI, USDC, and BUSD holdings.

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Learn more:

👉 Find time to speak with someone from the Staked team here .

📜 Developer Docs

Interested integrating the Robo-Advisor for Yield (RAY) and/or staking-as-a-service into your business today?

Learn more:

👉 Reply to this email to speak with the Staked team about getting started today!

👉 Find time to speak with someone from the Staked team here .

About Staked

Topics: Ethereum, Seeking Yield, NEAR, Bitcoin

Staked August 2020 Update

Posted by Staked on Sep 4, 2020 11:44:13 AM

August 2020 recap — Stay updated with Staked monthly updates!

This update covers our progress at Staked during August.

This past month...

Chain Updates

Continued running validators on the ETH 2.0 multi-client testnet preparing for Phase 0. Details on ETH staking
Launched support for the Cardano mainnet. Details on Cardano staking
Launched Kyber staking claiming and reporting. Details on Kyber staking
Continued to prepare for the NEAR unrestricted mainnet launch. Details on NEAR staking
Launched support for The Graph Protocol incentivized testnet. Details on The Graph Protocol staking
Launched support for the Secret Network testnet. Details on Secret Network
Joined the Chainlink network as an oracle node operator. More information about our participation in the Chainlink network
Continued to support the SKALE mainnet in preparation for the next phase of launch. Details on SKALE staking
Prepared for the NuCypher WorkLock and mainnet by running on the testnet. Details on the NuCypher WorkLock
Continued to prepare for the Coda mainnet by running on the incentivized testnet. Details on Coda staking
Continued to prepare for the Oasis mainnet launch. Details on Oasis staking

To get in touch with the Staked team about getting started, please reach out to sales@staked.us.

📊 Current Yields

📊 Robo-Advisor for Yield (RAY) Snapshot

If any of the above interests you or you would like to learn more, please find time to speak here or reach out to the team at sales@staked.us.

We look forward to continuing to provide our customers with best-in-class staking and lending infrastructure.

About Staked

Staked helps institutional investors reliably and securely compound their crypto by 5% — 100% annually through staking and lending. Staked runs validation nodes for proof-of-stake currencies and offers access to on- and off-chain lending options that provide an annualized yield of in-kind currency. Staked’s investors include Pantera Capital, Digital Currency Group, Coinbase Ventures, Winklevoss Capital, ParaFi Capital, Fabric Ventures, Global Brain, and other leading crypto investors.

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Synthetix Rewards - Week Ending September 2, 2020

Posted by Staked on Sep 1, 2020 1:26:44 PM

Due to record high gas prices on the Ethereum network, Staked will not be claiming Synthetix rewards for this week’s claim period. Gas prices have been 200+ gwei for the past week, and ~ 450 for the past 24 - 48 hours. Since the gas costs for the claims transactions are greater than the value of the rewards, it’s not economically rational to execute the claims transactions. Delegates can claim their own rewards until Wednesday September 2nd, 2020 at 4:30 AM EST via https://mintr.synthetix.io/. We sincerely apologize for the inconvenience.

About Staked

Staked helps institutional investors reliably and securely compound their crypto by 5% — 100% annually through staking and lending. Staked runs validation nodes for proof-of-stake currencies and offers access to on- and off-chain lending options that provide an annualized yield of in-kind currency. Staked’s investors include Pantera Capital, Digital Currency Group, Coinbase Ventures, Winklevoss Capital, ParaFi Capital, Fabric Ventures, Global Brain, and other leading crypto investors.

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Staked Launches Kyber Rewards Claiming and Reporting

Posted by Staked on Aug 28, 2020 3:53:47 PM

Staked announced today the release of Kyber rewards claiming and reporting for KNC delegates of Staked’s Kyber stakepool. KNC stakers currently earn 65.3% of the fees generated from trading on the Kyber Network, or approximately 350 ETH per 2 week epoch period, in exchange for voting on governance proposals.

Staked Kyber

To set up Kyber rewards claiming and reporting, create a Staked account here. Next, click on Kyber from the token grid on the Setup Reporting page, and add the ETH public address used to delegate voting power to the Staked stakepool in the address input field. After clicking on the Add button, you will be redirected to Staked’s Reporting Summary.

If you already have a Staked account and are logged in, hover over the person icon in the upper right hand navigation, click on Holdings from the drop-down, and then add the ETH public address used to delegate to Kyber in the token grid.

To claim your rewards for Epoch 1, 2 and 3, click on the Claim button for the corresponding epoch. When claiming rewards, make sure you are connected to the ETH address used for delegation to Staked, or the claim rewards transaction will fail. Rewards for epochs 1 - 3 will each need to be claimed separately.

Equally as importantly, we recently deployed an upgraded stakepool that enables delegates to claim rewards for all outstanding epochs in a single rewards claim transaction to save on gas costs.

To delegate to the upgraded stakepool, visit http://kyber.org, click on My Stake in the upper right hand navigation, and enter the following ETH address in the Delegate’s ETH Address field and click on the Delegate button:

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Please make sure to update your delegation to the new stakepool before Epoch 4 ends on September 7th, 2020. Staked will stop voting and claiming on the old stakepool on this date.

** For details on how redelegation will impact your rewards (for the epoch in which you redelegate), please refer to the Kyber team’s walk through examples on voting power. In summary, you will not be eligible to earn rewards for the one epoch in which you redelegate. You will earn rewards by voting for the following epoch (n +1), and will be able to claim rewards for that epoch and all epochs going forward.

About Staked

Staked helps institutional investors reliably and securely compound their crypto by 5% — 100% annually through staking and lending. Staked runs validation nodes for proof-of-stake currencies and offers access to on- and off-chain lending options that provide an annualized yield of in-kind currency. Staked’s investors include Pantera Capital, Digital Currency Group, Coinbase Ventures, Winklevoss Capital, ParaFi Capital, Fabric Ventures, Global Brain, and other leading crypto investors.

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Topics: Ethereum, Kyber Network, DeFi, KNC

Staked Launches Kyber Rewards Claiming and Reporting

Posted by Staked on Aug 28, 2020 3:52:13 PM

Staked Kyber

Equally as importantly, we recently deployed an upgraded stakepool that enables delegates to claim rewards for all outstanding epochs in a single rewards claim transaction to save on gas costs.

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Please make sure to update your delegation to the new stakepool before Epoch 4 ends on September 7th, 2020. Staked will stop voting and claiming on the old stakepool on this date.

About Staked

Staked helps institutional investors reliably and securely compound their crypto by 5% — 100% annually through staking and lending. Staked runs validation nodes for proof-of-stake currencies and offers access to on- and off-chain lending options that provide an annualized yield of in-kind currency. Staked’s investors include Pantera Capital, Digital Currency Group, Coinbase Ventures, Winklevoss Capital, ParaFi Capital, Fabric Ventures, Global Brain, and other leading crypto investors.

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Topics: Ethereum, Kyber Network, DeFi, KNC

Joining The Graph Network as a Node Operator

Posted by Staked on Aug 28, 2020 10:40:55 AM

Staked is excited to announce that we have joined the The Graph Network incentivized testnet as a node operator. Enabling internet applications that are entirely powered by public infrastructure, The Graph has become the backbone of the burgeoning Ethereum and DeFi ecosystem. Today, a number of projects have built out subgraphs including Uniswap, RAY, Aave, Synthetix, ENS, and more.

The Graph Network decentralizes the query and API layer of Web3, removing a tradeoff dApp developers struggle with today: whether to build an application that is performant or to build an app that is truly decentralized.

Staked is currently participating in The Graph Network incentivized testnet, Mission Control. The testnet is designed to help validate economic design, test security, network capacity and indexer performance in the protocol. In Mission Control, indexers operate Graph Nodes and stake GRT to index and serve blockchain data, curators signal on subgraphs and stake GRT to indicate to Indexers which subgraphs are high-quality and should be indexed, and node operators compete as indexers that are rewarded based on contribution.

The Graph

Staked is supported by a highly available and secure backend infrastructure. We use Kubernetes to distribute across five clouds with automated failover, and have never been slashed or had extended downtime in 3 years of operating POS blockchain nodes. Our technical infrastructure has been audited by security and DevOps teams at the leading protocols, exchanges, and custodians.

Stay updated with GRT staking: https://staking.staked.us/graph-staking

About Staked

Staked helps institutional investors reliably and securely compound their crypto by 5% — 100% annually through staking and lending. Staked runs validation nodes for proof-of-stake currencies and offers access to on- and off-chain lending options that provide an annualized yield of in-kind currency. Staked’s investors include Pantera Capital, Digital Currency Group, Coinbase Ventures, Winklevoss Capital, ParaFi Capital, Fabric Ventures, Global Brain, and other leading crypto investors.

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