Staking
August 18, 2022

Coinbase CEO: Would Exit Staking Biz If Forced To Censor Transactions
Largest US Exchange Accounts For 14% Of All Staked ETH
July 18, 2022

Lido To Expand stETH To Layer 2 Networks
The staked ETH derivative will be launched on Arbitrum and Optimism.
July 05, 2022

Earn Passive Income With Idle NFTs Using Inventory Staking on NFTx
Inventory Staking is a brand new feature added to the NFTX V2 Protocol, allowing anyone to add their floor-priced NFTs to a vault and stake their position on the Stake page to receive part of the vault fees. This allows you to receive a passive income on all your floor NFTs which you otherwise would…
June 13, 2022

Ethereum Bulls See Opportunity in Celsius Collapse, stETH 'De-Peg'
Lido's stETH liquid staking derivative is trading at a 7% discount to ETH.
June 08, 2022

Ethereum's Ropsten Testnet Merge Is Complete
On June 8, the public Ropsten testnet transitioned from Proof-of-Work consensus to Proof-of-Stake.
June 08, 2022

Liquid Staking Providers Buck Bear Market With Hefty Inflows
Data Shows $2.3B Flow Into Lido as Other Protocols Suffer Withdrawals
May 31, 2022

Eth2 Beacon Chain Launches on Ropsten Testnet, Paving Way for Merge
The Ethereum Foundation launched the Eth2 Beacon Chain on a public testnet yesterday, marking one of the final tests before Ethereum transitions to Proof-of-Stake later this year. The Beacon Chain, Eth2’s Proof-of-Stake consensus layer, went live on the longstanding public testnet, Ropsten. The launch is a major milestone toward Ethereum’s highly anticipated ‘chain-merge’, which developers…
May 27, 2022

Ethereum Miner Tries to Expedite Testnet Merge By 2 Weeks
Ethereum developers foiled a “mischievous” miner’s attempt to expedite Ethereum’s transition to Proof-of-Stake on a public testnet by two weeks. Developers expect Ethereum’s Eth2 Beacon Chain to merge with Ethereum’s mainnet this autumn. The transition, known as “The Merge”, will change the chain to Proof-of-Stake consensus and abandon Proof-of-Work miners. Ethereum’s developers want to trial…
May 26, 2022

Outdated Node Clients Cause Blockchain Reorg on Eth2 Beacon Chain
The Eth2 Beacon Chain’s validators fell out of step on May 25 after a client update boosted some clients but caused confusion among validators who hadn’t bothered to upgrade. The incident, called a blockchain reorganization, happens when nodes disagree on the order of the most recent block. Blockchains order blocks – batches of transactions –…
May 20, 2022

ConsenSys Pushes Upgrade for Ethereum Validators Ahead of Q3 Merge
ConsenSys, Joe Lubin’s Ethereum software company, has rolled out a new tool it claims will smoothen Ethereum’s transition to Proof of Stake in August, also known as “The Merge.” The tool, “Bonsai Tries State Storage”, came out of early access on May 17. It runs on ConsenSys’s Ethereum client, Hyperledger Besu. State tries are Ethereum…