Liquid staking

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Jito's Token Launch Pushed Competitor Marinade's MNDE to All-Time Highs
Marinade's market cap is dwarfed by Jito, though, despite being a bigger crypto ecosystem.
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DeFi Market Rebounds to $50B as Speculators Hunt for Yield
An uptick across Solana-based protocols coupled with more than $700 million in deposits to Blast has fueled growth of the value locked in decentralized finance.
DeFi TVL and volume (DefiLlama)

Mantle Chief Alchemist Jordi Alexander (Mantle)
Mantle Releases Liquid Staking Protocol, Expanding Beyond Layer-2 Operator
The release will be the second core product in the Mantle ecosystem, and comes just 6 months after the Mantle Network went live.
Mantle Chief Alchemist Jordi Alexander (Mantle)

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Liquid Staking Tokens Are a Hot Ticket for 2024
The staking market was the brightest spot in DeFi this year. The arrival of liquid staking token finance is set to turbocharge activity next year.
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Coinbase, Ether Liquid Staking Tokens Lido, RocketPool Surge on BlackRock ETH ETF News
The iShares Ethereum Trust was registered as a corporate entity in the state of Delaware earlier Thursday.
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Ether.Fi Rolls Out Liquid Staking Token eETH, That Can be Restaked on EigenLayer
In March, Ether.fi raised $5.3 million in a seed round led by North Island VC.
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A Spot ETH ETF Represents the Dawn of Institutional Liquid Staking
Alluvial co-founder Matt Leisinger argues Ethereum staking would be an obvious beneficiary of a product like ARK Invest's Ethereum-based exchange-traded fund going to market.
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Opposing Centralization in Ethereum Staking
Nixo.eth argues that dominant decentralized staking provider Lido is exploiting a flaw in Ethereum that threatens some of the industry's core values.
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Binance liquid staking ETH (DefiLlama)
Binance’s Liquid Staked Ether Jumps to $1.2B in TVL After Sudden $500M Inflow
The exchange is one of the largest players in ether staking after Lido Finance and Coinbase.
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Explaining Ethereum's 'Risk Free' Rate of Return
Liquid staking is one of the few crypto markets that has grown in the bear market. Why?
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