Tag Archives: Proof of Stake (PoS)

Ethereum successfully implemented a long-awaited tech upgrade on April 12. Also known as Shapella – this upgrade enabled withdrawals for the first time from the proof-of-stake blockchain. A week later, the amount of staked Ether has now exceeded the number of ETH being withdrawn for the very first time. According to the on-chain analytic platform Nansen, withdrawal requests have taken a backseat while Ether is being staked at a fast pace. As of April 17th, the amount of ETH...

With the long-awaited Shapella upgrade just around the corner, crypto exchange Kraken is preparing to withdraw all staked ETH on behalf of its clients as soon as possible after the update rolls out.  The event will bring Kraken’s staking as a service product to a complete close, after being forced by regulators into shuttering the program in February.  Kraken Withdraws its Stake In a Twitter response on Wednesday, Kraken’s support team confirmed that the platform’s locked ETH...

After a months-long wait since the Merge, Ethereum developers have set a target date for the network’s highly anticipated Shanghai hard fork.  The upgrade will enable the network’s stakers to withdraw their locked Ether (ETH) for the first time since December 2020.  Withdrawing Staked ETH During a recorded call among core developers on Thursday, devs set April 12 as their target date for “Shapella” – the dual upgrade enabling ETH withdrawals. Shapella is a combination of the...

Bitcoin fell back to $22,000 on Thursday shortly after the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) laid charges against Kraken for the unregistered offering of its staking services.  Kraken agreed to halt the service and pay $30 million in disgorgement, prejudgment interest, and civil penalties, without admitting to or denying any wrongdoing.  According to the SEC’s press release, by letting users hand over their cryptocurrency in exchange for a promised return, Kraken’s...

21Shares announced the launch of first-of-its-kind crypto staking index ETP focused on proof-of-stake-based coins. Dubbed 21Shares Staking Basket Index ETP (STAKE), the product will essentially provide exposure to staking rewards while tracking the performance of underlying staked coins via a single ETP. World’s First Crypto Staking Index ETP According to the official press release, the index will track ten crypto-assets, including Binance Coin (BNB), Cardano (ADA), Cosmos...

Open source and decentralized protocol ssv.network DAO has launched a $50 million Ecosystem Fund dedicated to supporting the development of Distributed Validator Technology (“DVT”) based applications. According to a press release shared with CryptoPotato, the project secured the funds from various industry investors, including DCG, OKX, HashKey, NGC, Everstake, HackVC, GSR, Chorus.One SevenX, and 1kx. ssv.network noted that the fund is the first to be dedicated solely to DVT...

Ethereum now has over 500,000 validators keeping the network secure ahead of its highly anticipated Shanghai upgrade, scheduled for March.  The upgrade will allow such validators to withdraw their ETH from Ethereum’s staking contract – some of which has been locked up for years. Ethereum’s Surge in Validators According to data from BeaconScan, Ethereum’s validator count topped 500,000 as of January 12 2023. It registered at 501,893 as of Monday.  A “validator” is a user...

Former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey’s latest tweet did not sit well with the Cardano creator, Charles Hoskinson, who squarely aimed at the Bitcoin proponent and said the Merge will kick off an “era” where all proof-of-stake (PoS) networks will be unfairly categorized as being similar to Ethereum. His tweet read, “Now begins the Era of everyone assuming that all Proof of Stake works like Ethereum’s Proof of Stake. The maxis will attack Cardano for slashing and label all the...

Sam Padilla – a Web3 Customer Engineer at Google – said the world’s largest search engine launched a countdown clock that shows when exactly Ethereum’s Merge will be complete. The second-biggest cryptocurrency protocol is on its way to shifting from Proof-of-Work (PoW) to Proof-of-Stake (PoS), something unseen in the industry so far. The move is expected to be finalized on September 15. Ethereum’s shift to PoS, known as “the Merge,” has gathered significant attention as many...

Ethereum, the world’s second-largest cryptocurrency, is all set to discard its energy-intensive proof-of-work consensus mechanism sometime next week. While ETH’s price could potentially decouple from other cryptocurrencies post Merge, staking yields is expected to catalyze institutional adoption, Chainalysis said in its latest report. On the other hand, it may be a difficult road for the existing miners on the network. Uptrend in Institutional Stakers As per Chainalysis, the...