Ceffu Partners With Lido to Offer Liquid Staking through Cold Storage

2024-10-22  •  3 min read

We’re pleased to announce our partnership with Lido to offer ETH liquid staking through our cold storage solution, Qualified Wallet.  Following our recent announcement with Binance Earn, our  collaboration with Lido offers Ceffu's institutional clients another liquid staking solution, enabling them to stake their ETH assets and receive Lido Staked ETH (StETH) as rewards. StETH is a liquid, tradable token denoting their ETH staked through the Lido protocol) as rewards.

How does staking ETH on Ceffu with Lido work?

By engaging in liquid staking from your Qualified Wallet, your ETH is securely held in a smart contract, bolstering the Ethereum proof-of-stake blockchain's security consensus mechanism. In return, the corresponding stETH tokens are credited to your Qualified Wallet.

stETH represents your staked ETH along with the respective rewards. Your stETH balance is updated daily at 12 PM UTC to reflect accrued rewards, providing you an insight into your staked position and reward share on a daily basis. This mechanism is referred to as "rebasing." For information on daily stETH APR, please refer to this link.

To get started, simply select a Qualified Wallet from which you wish to stake your ETH in the staking portal of your Ceffu web app. Your staked ETH will then be sent to the Lido middleware platform and accrue rewards in stETH. Rewards are distributed back to your Ceffu Qualified Wallet as stETH to reuse as needed.

To get started, simply select a Qualified Wallet from which you wish to stake your ETH in the staking portal of your Ceffu web app. Your staked ETH will then be sent to the Lido platform and generate rewards in StETH. Rewards are distributed back to your Ceffu Qualified Wallet as StETH to reuse as needed.

What is liquid staking?

Liquid staking revolutionizes the way users approach staking. Users receive a liquid, easily tradable token that acts as a stand-in for their staked cryptocurrency on proof-of-stake networks like Ethereum.

This approach diverges from traditional staking methods, where tokens remain locked until unstaked. Users can now readily access and utilize the value of their staked tokens at their convenience. This newfound fluidity unlocks seamless engagement with a wide array of decentralized applications and web3 protocols, significantly amplifying the potential of staked assets. 

As of this writing, StETH ranks first among liquid staking tokens and protocols, as per DefiLlama rankings. It stands firmly on top, with an accumulated total value locked (TVL) exceeding $29 billion USD, with Rocket Pool and Binance Staked ETH in second and third positions respectively.

Institutional-grade cold storage with Qualified Wallet

Our Qualified Wallet is a cutting-edge cold storage solution using MPC cryptography to provide institutional-grade security for crypto assets. It offers distributed key management, threshold signing, and zero-trust security, all with a user-friendly interface and dedicated on-chain addresses for each user. Contact us to learn more about how Ceffu’s custody and liquidity solutions can help drive your business forward, contact us using our institutional form.

About Lido

Lido Finance is a distinguished player in the Ethereum ecosystem, renowned for its intuitive and approachable staking procedures for cryptocurrencies. It hails from a family of open-source peer-to-system software tools that are designed to function on the Ethereum and Polygon blockchain. 

Lido empowers users to mint transferable utility tokens, garnering rewards intertwined with the corresponding validation actions that involve writing data to the blockchain. Moreover, these tokens can be practically used in other on-chain activities.

About Ceffu

Ceffu is a compliant, institutional-grade custody platform offering custody and liquidity solutions that are ISO 27001 & 27701 certified and SOC Type 1 & Type 2 attested. Its multi-party computation (MPC) technology, combined with a customizable multi-approval scheme, provides bespoke solutions allowing institutional clients to safely store and manage their digital assets.

Institutions also benefit from Ceffu’s secure gateway to a wide range of liquidity products within the Binance ecosystem as Binance’s institutional custody partner through MirrorX, its off-exchange settlement solution.

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