Blockchain
Stader Labs completes $4M funding raise to expand crypto staking
Founded in April 2021, the platform raised funds from a plethora of high-profile figures from the crypto and blockchain space.
Founded in April 2021, the platform raised funds from a plethora of high-profile figures from the crypto and blockchain space.
Stader Labs, a cryptocurrency staking management platform, has today announced a $4 million financing round to accelerate development across multiple blockchains including Ethereum, Near and Polkadot, as well as broadening its marketing campaigns.
The funding raise was conducted by Pantera Capital, with participation from a prominent number of venture capital funds, blockchain foundations and angel investors, including but not limit Coinbase Ventures, True Ventures, TerraForm Labs, Solana Foundation, Diogo Monica (CEO of Anchorage) and Tim Ogilvie (CEO of Staked).
Stader Labs aggregates decentralized finance (DeFi) protocols and applications into a simplified staking solution for delegators in a bid to maximize their returns. The current offering includes staking, liquid staking, derivatives, gaming, as well as high-yield strategies.
Co-founder and CEO of Stader Labs Amitej Gajjala commented on the firm’s ambitions:
“We hope to empower cryptoasset staking throughout the financial sector, making it easy and intuitive for investors to stake assets and generate returns.”
A report published by JP Morgan in July estimated that Ethereum’s transition to a proof-of-stake consensus mechanism will increase the staking payout from $9 billion to $20 billion.
In early August, prior to Ethereum’s EIP-1559 upgrade, Pantera Capital CEO Dan Morehead predicted that Ethereum will surpass Bitcoin as the leading crypto asset, citing it’s capabilities of mining energy consumption and its vast impact on DeFi as reasons for the growth.
Related: Staking will eat proof-of-work for breakfast — Here’s why
Commenting on the Stader funding raise, Pantera Capital partner Paul Veradittakit said:
“We will provide aggregation and decentralization to staking assets and derivatives across both protocols and validators. We believe that the staking user experience can be improved for both retail and institutions, and Stader Labs is poised to play a major role in the mass adoption of staking solutions.”
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