Staked (Company)

Basics

• A crypto firm that specializes in passive yields from staking Proof-of-Stake (PoS) coins; Staked performs the behind the scenes work for subscribing hedge funds and institutions.
• Got acquired by Kraken (21-12-2021).

Services

• As of now, Stake services six coins: Tezos, Dash, Decred, Livepeer, Factom, and EOS.
• Is an early SKALE validator partner (31-7-2020).
• Staking provider for NuCypher (9-10-2020).
• Ethereum, from The Defiant (4-11-2020):

"Staked is live and requires users to stake ETH in multiples of 32 (as is the case when staking directly to the contract). It offers an interface to monitor Eth2 nodes and is distributed across cloud and Eth2 clients to prevent penalties. Yield for staking via Staked is currently 12.4%."

• Terra, is one of the main validators (15-12-2020).
• Wormhole; is one of the 19 guardians (10-8-2021).

Team

Team

• Tim Ogilvie; CEO
• Got acquired by Kraken (21-12-2021).

Investors

• The Winklevoss twins and Pantera Capital have led the charge on a $4.5M fundraising round for Staked

Partners

• Has a 'working relationship' (15-2-2020) with bZx