Coinbase Will Now Reward Users for Holding This Cryptocurrency
Coinbase is for the first time allowing general users to earn rewards by simply holding cryptocurrency, starting with the Tezos (XTZ) token.
Staking
Coinbase has launched Coinbase Custody International Inc., a European entity for handling cryptocurrency deposits.
Binance US has joined other major exchanges in the staking game, adding staking rewards for cryptocurrencies algorand (ALGO) and cosmos (ATOM).
How Fund Managers View Lending and Staking: 3 Takeaways From a CoinDesk Research Webinar
Jan 31, 2020
In December, we invited two fund managers, both long bitcoin and other crypto assets, for a CoinDesk Research webinar on lending and staking. Jordan Clifford of Scalar Capital and Kyle Samani of Multicoin Capital joined us to discuss how they evaluate risk and returns in crypto lending and staking, what crypto assets' risk-free rate might look like, and what DeFi needs to do to attract investors and new users.
Noelle Acheson warns of the consolidating power of crypto custodians, and the influence this could have on asset prices.
Kyber Network, the ethereum-based protocol focused on aggregating liquidity and facilitating swaps for ERC-20 tokens, is about to launch a major upgrade.
