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Figment App: Liquid Collective Staking Guide
Liquid Staking is not currently available for US customers. Liquid Collective is an enterprise-grade liquid staking protocol. The first token...
Figment | August 2, 2023
How Leading Platforms Are Turning Staking into Revenue Lines
Staking has moved from a crypto-native validator activity to a mainstream product generating real revenue. Success depends on choosing the...
Figment | July 20, 2026
Figment’s Q2 2026 Solana Validator Report
Notes on Methodology This report covers Figment’s main Solana validator and its activity through April, May, and June 2026 (Epochs...
Brady | July 17, 2026
Figment’s Q2 2026 Ethereum Validator Report
Notes on Methodology This report covers Figment’s active Ethereum validators throughout April, May, and June 2026. Unless otherwise stated, all...
Brady | July 17, 2026
How France’s Banque Delubac Built a Compliant Custody and Staking Offering
Operating for nearly a century, Banque Delubac & Cie is an independent financial institution offering specialized banking services to private...
Figment | July 8, 2026
Expanding Access to Institutional Staking Infrastructure in Japan
Figment has partnered with Curvegrid, a Tokyo-based digital asset infrastructure company, to bring institutional-grade staking to financial institutions operating in...
Figment | June 15, 2026
Figment Named Staking Services Provider of the Year by Hedgeweek®
Figment has been named Staking Services Provider of the Year at the Hedgeweek® Global Digital Assets Awards 2026. The Hedgeweek®...
Figment | June 12, 2026
Ethereum’s Most Active Quarter Ever: What It Means for Institutional Stakers
Ethereum just completed its most active quarter in the network’s history. In Q1 2026, the network processed 200.4 million transactions...
Brady | May 28, 2026
The Anatomy of a Solana Validator: Where Rewards Originate and Which Rewards are Durable
Two Solana validators can post nearly identical Staking Reward Rates (SRRs) and still be running fundamentally different businesses underneath. The...
Nick Yushkevich | May 21, 2026
Glamsterdam: What Ethereum’s Next Upgrade Means for Institutional Stakers
Ethereum’s Pectra upgrade reshaped how validators manage balances. The next upgrade, Glamsterdam, will materially improve exit liquidity. The proposals included...
Benjamin Thalman | May 5, 2026
Figment Solana Shred Data Now Available via bloXroute
Figment’s Solana validator shred data is now accessible through bloXroute’s Blockchain Distribution Network (BDN). Figment operates one of the largest...
Figment | April 16, 2026
Figment’s Q1 2026 Solana Validator Report
This report covers Figment’s main Solana validator and its activity through January, February, and March 2026 (Epochs 904–949). On Solana,...
Brady | April 15, 2026
Figment’s Q1 2026 Ethereum Validator Report
This report covers Figment’s active Ethereum validators throughout January, February, and March 2026. On Ethereum, Figment is one of the...
Brady | April 15, 2026
Execution Layer Rewards vs. Consensus Layer Rewards: A Guide for Institutional Ethereum Stakers
Ethereum rewards come from two distinct layers of the protocol, and they respond to mainly different forces. In 2025, that...
Brady | April 13, 2026
DoubleZero: Chain-Agnostic by Design
DoubleZero’s networking layer is not built for a single ecosystem. It is built for a problem every distributed system shares:...
David Liang | March 31, 2026
Regulatory Pulse: US SEC March 17 Release – How it Relates to Staking
This week, the SEC published an interpretation clarifying how federal securities laws apply to crypto assets, and staking is specifically...
Eme Housser | March 20, 2026
Regulatory Pulse: Japan
2025 marked a turning point for digital-asset regulation. Major jurisdictions across the world drew explicit distinctions between protocol infrastructure and...
Eme Housser | March 19, 2026
BlackRock Selects Figment as a Validator
BlackRock Selects Figment as a Validator On March 12, 2026, the iShares Staked Ethereum Trust ETF (ETHB) began trading on...
Figment | March 16, 2026
Figment Upgrades Solana Infrastructure with Rakurai Client
What is Rakurai? Rakurai is a new Solana validator client focused on optimizing block scheduling, low-latency, and high-throughput infrastructure. Rakurai’s...
David Liang | March 10, 2026
Polkadot’s Dynamic Allocation Pool (DAP): An Evolution in Issuance and Staking
Polkadot Update: Preparing for a New Economic Framework Polkadot is preparing for a significant economic upgrade: the introduction of the...
Brady | February 19, 2026
Figment Partners with Ripple Custody to Strengthen Institutional Staking Infrastructure
Ripple has selected Figment to support and scale its staking strategy. Under this partnership, Ripple leverages Figment’s institutional-grade staking solutions,...
Figment | February 9, 2026
Setting a Higher Bar for Institutional Staking: Figment Achieves NORS Full Certification for Ethereum
Institutions require high operational excellence as table stakes when it comes to choosing a staking infrastructure provider. We pride ourselves...
Figment | February 4, 2026
Understanding the BeaconScore: A Consensus-Layer View of Validator Performance
As Ethereum staking matures, stakers increasingly need metrics that separate operational performance from randomness. One such metric is the BeaconScore...
Benjamin Thalman | January 27, 2026
ETH Staking Update: Activations Are Back in the Lead
After months of relative equilibrium in Ethereum’s validator set, a clear shift is underway. Validator activations are once again outpacing...
Benjamin Thalman | January 22, 2026