Coinbase, Figment Expand Institutional Staking Access

Institutional staking supplier Figment has expanded its integration with Coinbase, permitting the change’s institutional shoppers to stake a broader vary of proof-of-stake (PoS) property immediately from Coinbase Custody — a transfer that might drive adoption past Ethereum.

Via the mixing, Coinbase Prime prospects can now use Figment’s staking infrastructure to entry extra PoS networks, together with Solana (SOL), Sui (SUI), Aptos (APT), Avalanche (AVAX) and others, the businesses announced Tuesday.

The partnership, which started in 2023, has already facilitated greater than $2 billion in staked property by way of Coinbase Prime.

Coinbase Prime serves institutional buyers with a full-service crypto prime brokerage, providing buying and selling, financing and custody for over 440 digital property throughout dozens of blockchains.

Figment at present has $18 billion in property underneath stake throughout greater than 40 protocols. 

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Crypto ETFs come to the US

The announcement follows the launch of a number of staking-focused exchange-traded funds (ETFs) within the US this month, together with the Bitwise Solana Staking ETF (BSOL), which provides publicity to Solana staking.

Grayscale has additionally introduced plans to introduce staking for its Ethereum and Solana merchandise. Earlier this month, the asset supervisor staked $150 million value of Ether (ETH) as a part of its effort to allow buyers to earn staking rewards from their holdings.

These developments come simply months after the US Securities and Change Fee (SEC) decided that sure liquid staking actions do not constitute securities transactions, putting them exterior the company’s jurisdiction. 

Earlier than that ruling, asset managers together with VanEck, Bitwise and Jito Labs had urged the securities regulator to make clear its stance and approve liquid staking mechanisms for Solana-based ETFs.

SEC Chair Paul Atkins mentioned the decree marked a “important step ahead in clarifying the employees’s view about crypto asset actions that don’t fall throughout the SEC’s jurisdiction.” 

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