Bitcoin staking platform Acre completed a $4 million strategic financing, with participation from Draper Dragon, Big Brain Holdings and Orange DAO. Acre co-founder and CEO Laura Wallendal said the round was in the form of a future equity simple agreement and token subscription rights, and Wallendal said the $90 million valuation represents a fully diluted valuation for the yet-to-be-launched ACRE token.
"The second phase of STRK staking will begin in a few months [in the second quarter of 2025]," Starknet said in a post on the X platform. "The main goal of the second phase is to allow validators to take an active role in staking and to evaluate their active level before they take on the formal role of consensus. The third phase is planned to begin in the fourth quarter of 2025. To achieve this goal, Starknet proposes to introduce validator block proofs and possibly include a commission increase...
The Celestia community initiated a proposal to set a lock limit on the staking reward of the lock-up token, and keep the unlock time of the staking reward consistent with the original lock-up token. In response to the proposal, Celestia founder Mustafa Al-Bassam wrote in support: "Let's complete this proposal. Most of the current PoS networks do not lock in investors' share of the pledge reward. This proposal solves Celestia's problem, and other Cosmos SDK chains can also adopt this scheme."
According to SolanaFloor, an investor pledged 200,000 SOL worth $45 million on the Solana ecological pledge platform Marinade, and if nothing else, it is expected that the investor will earn 25,000 SOL (worth $5.60 million) by January next year.
Starknet announced that the second phase of the STRK staking program will be launched in the second quarter of 2025. Data show that the first phase has attracted more than 60,000 delegates to participate, with a total of 150 million STRKs pledged, and a total of 100 validators connected to the network. Starknet said that the first phase was mainly used to test the basic principles of the pledge mechanism and economic parameters, which lasted about three months. The second phase will give validat...
PostFinance AG, a Swiss state-owned bank, has expanded its digital asset offering by introducing staking, allowing holders of ether to earn passive income. PostFinance will add staking of other tokens "in the near future," according to a statement on Thursday.
January 15th news, Qichacha APP shows that recently, Wang Jianlin added 1 equity pledge information, the pledged equity target company is Dalian Wanda Group Inc., Ltd., the pledgee is Zhuhai Wanying Enterprise Management Co., Ltd., the amount of pledged equity is 2.40 million shares. Qichacha information shows that Dalian Wanda Group Inc., Ltd. was established in September 1992, the legal representative is Wang Jianlin, the registered capital 1 billion RMB, business scope including commercial re...
Standard Chartered-backed Zodia Custody has partnered with Kiln to expand staking services, and its customers can now access and receive ETH, SOL, DOT, ADA, and BNB staking services.
According to Nansen officials on social media, the amount of pledges on Nansen exceeded $1 million.
Binance announced the launch of the BNSOL Super Stake Phase 5 project in partnership with Renzo (REZ), a re-staking protocol. From January 13 to 31, 2025, BNSOL holders or SOL stakers will receive additional REZ token rewards. The total reward pool is 10.406 million REZs, and about 547,700 are distributed every day. Users can manually claim rewards on the SOL Staking page at 05:30 UTC every day, and the unclaimed part will be automatically issued to the spot account on February 1.
On January 5, the Bitcoin staking protocol Solv Protocol issued a statement saying that it has now fully regained control of the X account and is implementing enhanced security measures to prevent such incidents from happening again in the future. Previously, it was reported that Solv Protocol official tweets were stolen, and hackers posted tweets of contract addresses with fake tokens.
Solayer, Solana's re-staking protocol, established a foundation and launched the LAYER governance token. "To support the next phase of our journey, we are pleased to announce the formation of the Solayer Foundation, an independent non-profit organization dedicated to advancing SVM expansion, the upcoming LAYER token, and the first quarter of claims," Solayer Labs announced Thursday on the X platform.
Bitcoin staking protocol Babylon posted on the X platform that it did not know about the $5.30 million investment from BingX Labs. BingX Labs, the innovation arm of BingX, announced a strategic partnership with Bitcoin staking agreement Babylon to invest $5.30 million in the Babylon project through its $100 million ecosystem fund.