Seeking Yield by Staked - Issue #12
Cosmos Enables Transfers Via On-Chain Vote, 1Q19 Crypto Retrospective by Circle Research, Set Protocol Strategy Enabled Tokens Go Live, & Staking and Lending Yields
This is the twelfth issue of Seeking Yield by Staked, a weekly update about the most interesting things happening in crypto asset staking and lending.
⚛️ Cosmos Enables Transfers Via On-Chain Vote
Cosmos Hub-1 has officially upgraded to Cosmos Hub-2, enabling Atom transfers and initiating Phase II of the Cosmos Hub mainnet.
✅ Phase I: Network Gains Stability — March 13, 2019
✅ Phase II: Transfers Enabled — April 22, 2019
⏳ Phase III: Inter-Blockchain Communication (IBC) Enabled
As of 1:00 PM EST on April 22, 2019, both proposals in the dual-proposal process had passed and Atom transfers were enabled. Below are details and a timeline for the first five Cosmos governance proposals.
Read our Cosmos / ATOM Staking Guide or visit our website for more on Cosmos!
Read our full thoughts here!
🔬 1Q19 Crypto Retrospective by Circle Research
Circle Research recently published 1Q19 Crypto Retrospective, an extremely comprehensive report with everything you need to know about crypto in 2019.
The report notes five key developments in 1Q-2Q19, including both crypto staking and crypto lending. Staked is featured as a key player on page 24.
Read the entire report!
🎉 Set Protocol Strategy Enabled Tokens Go Live
Set Protocol has recently announced that Strategy Enabled Tokens are now live on TokenSets, a platform that enables traders and crypto enthusiasts to automate asset management strategies by simply acquiring a token.
As outlined in a previous post, TokenSets initially supports six Sets optimized based on how bullish or bearish sentiment.
Read the full post here!
🚀 Uniswap Raises $1M+ Seed Round From Paradigm
Hayden Adams recently announced the formation of a company to continue building open financial products and seed round from Paradigm, a leading crypto venture fund.
Launching nearly six months ago, Uniswap smart contracts currently hold 27,301 ETH or ~$4.2M. In 2019 alone, the amount of ETH locked in Uniswap smart contracts has risen nearly 1,500%.
Check out Uniswap.io for more!
📆 Events Coming Up
CryptoMonday: Compound Your Crypto
When: Monday, April 29th, 2019
Where: Galvanize - New York (303 Spring Street, New York, NY 10013)
Fluidity Summit 2019
When: Thursday, May 9th, 2019
Where: Williamsburgh Savings Bank (175 Broadway, Brooklyn, NY 11211)
Consensus 2019
When: May 13th - 15th, 2019
Where: New York Hilton Midtown (1335 6th Ave, New York, NY 10019)
💼 We are hiring!
Staked is growing and always searching for new talent! We are currently looking for:
Reach out if you are interested or know someone that would be a good fit!
Visit our careers page to learn more.
📊 Current Staking Rewards
Staked currently supports Cosmos (ATOM), Horizen (ZEN), Loom Network (LOOM), Decred (DCR), Tezos (XTZ), Livepeer (LPT), Dash (DASH), EOS (EOS), and Factom (FCT).
Have questions about staking and your strategy? Find time to speak here.
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📊 Current ETH Lending Yields
There are both on-chain and off-chain crypto asset lending solutions.
Below are various crypto asset lending solutions and annual ETH lending yields.
Sign up here to learn more about lending with Staked!
About Staked
Staked helps institutional investors reliably and securely compound their crypto by 5% — 100% annually through staking and lending. Staked runs validation nodes for proof-of-stake currencies and offers access to on- and off-chain lending options that provide an annualized yield of in-kind currency.
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