Financial giant Fidelity has amended its spot ether ETF application to include provisions for cryptocurrency staking.
“According to the Registration Statement, Sponsor may, from time to time, stake a portion of the assets of the Fund through one or more trusted staking providers, which may include an affiliate of Sponsor (“Providers of staking”),” the company wrote.
in an amendment upon its filing on March 18. “In consideration for any staking activity in which the Fund may engage, the Fund would receive certain network rewards in the form of Ether Tokens, which may be treated as income to the Fund as compensation for the services provided.”
The largest of these providers, Lido, currently has $35 billion worth of ether blocked.
Since its spot Bitcoin ETF was approved in January, Fidelity has accumulated approximately 132,570 bitcoins, worth more than $9 billion, in assets for its first spot cryptocurrency exchange-traded product.
Staking This is where we actively participate in the validation of transactions on a proof-of-stake (PoS) blockchain such as Ethereum ETH
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and earn rewards. So, a multi-billion dollar player like Fidelity staking ether could potentially change the ecosystem of Ethereum itself.
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