{"id":33373,"date":"2020-12-15T10:24:17","date_gmt":"2020-12-15T08:24:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=33373"},"modified":"2025-08-28T13:31:14","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T10:31:14","slug":"kraken-clients-stake-over-166000-eth-in-ethereum-2-0","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/kraken-clients-stake-over-166000-eth-in-ethereum-2-0\/","title":{"rendered":"Kraken clients stake over 166,000 ETH in Ethereum 2.0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kraken users deposited 166,624 ETH into Ethereum 2.0 for staking. <a href=\"https:\/\/beaconcha.in\/validators\/eth1leaderboard\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Beaconcha.in data<\/a> show this.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, December 8, Kraken reported the deposit of 100,000 ETH, or about 8% of all coins locked in Ethereum 2.0.<\/p>\n<p>As of writing, there are 33,275 active validators on the network. In total, more than 1 million ETH have been staked.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_119541\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-119541\" class=\"size-large wp-image-119541\" src=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screenshot_1-124-1024x402.png\" alt=\"Kraken clients stake over 166,000 ETH in Ethereum 2.0\" width=\"1024\" height=\"402\" srcset=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screenshot_1-124-1024x402.png 1024w, https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screenshot_1-124-300x118.png 300w, https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screenshot_1-124-768x301.png 768w, https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screenshot_1-124.png 1364w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-119541\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Data: Beaconcha.in.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Ethereum&#8217;s lead developer Justin Drake noted that Kraken contributed 10.7% of the funds to the Ethereum 2.0 deposit contract. In wallet terms, the exchange surpasses Coinbase and Bitfinex, which could control a third of the validators.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">10.7% of validator deposits are from Kraken.<\/p>\n<p>Coinbase and Bitfinex have 5.8x more ETH than Kraken. Two exchanges could control 1\/3 of the validators. Five exchanges could control 1\/2 of the validators.<\/p>\n<p>Stake from home to avoid exchange fees and decentralise \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Justin \u00d0rake (@drakefjustin) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/drakefjustin\/status\/1338109370605907969?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 13, 2020<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The launch of Phase 0 of <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/ethereum-2-0-phase-zero-launch\">the second version of Ethereum 2.0<\/a> took place on December 1. The next day in the network <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/first-validator-slashed-in-the-ethereum-2-0-network\">the first validator was penalized<\/a>\u2014on slot 6669 he lost 0.25 ETH for distorting a block.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to ForkLog news on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/forklog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Facebook<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kraken users deposited 166,624 ETH into Ethereum 2.0 for staking. Beaconcha.in data show this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":33374,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[46,193],"class_list":["post-33373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-ethereum","tag-kraken"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"9","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33373"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33373\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33375,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33373\/revisions\/33375"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}