{"id":35120,"date":"2021-01-21T13:28:56","date_gmt":"2021-01-21T11:28:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=35120"},"modified":"2025-08-28T23:49:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T20:49:12","slug":"report-staking-yielded-20-billion-for-crypto-investors-in-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/report-staking-yielded-20-billion-for-crypto-investors-in-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: staking yielded $20 billion for crypto investors in 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During 2020, crypto investors earned more than $20 billion from validating transactions on Proof-of-Stake (PoS) blockchains. <a href=\"https:\/\/decrypt.co\/54802\/cryptocurrency-staking-rewards-20-billion-2020-report\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Decrypt<\/a> cited data from a report by the investment startup Staked.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Staking participants earned an average annual yield of 11.2% on funds staked.<\/p>\n<p>The highest staking yields are offered by NuCypher, Secret Network and Livepeer \u2014 over 30%. The lowest is Keep Network (3.4%).<\/p>\n<p>The largest PoS projects by market capitalisation are Ethereum 2.0 with a 12.4% stake, Polkadot (13.8%) and Solana (26.1%).<\/p>\n<p>PoS-based systems account for 25 of the 100 largest cryptocurrency networks by market capitalisation. The total market value of the projects exceeded $175 billion in 2020.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"M474RW7gGl\">\n<p>What is staking and how can you earn money from it?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"\u00ab\u0427\u0442\u043e \u0442\u0430\u043a\u043e\u0435 \u0441\u0442\u0435\u0439\u043a\u0438\u043d\u0433 \u0438 \u043a\u0430\u043a \u043d\u0430 \u043d\u0435\u043c \u0437\u0430\u0440\u0430\u0431\u043e\u0442\u0430\u0442\u044c?\u00bb \u2014 ForkLog\" src=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/cryptorium\/chto-takoe-stejking\/embed#?secret=MPyUlBhp0K#?secret=M474RW7gGl\" data-secret=\"M474RW7gGl\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>In December, the Ethereum 2.0 staking <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/ethereum-2-0-staking-involves-coins-worth-1-billion\">involved<\/a> coins worth $1 billion. At the time of writing, the value of ETH in the deposit contract stood at more than $3.5 billion.<\/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>During 2020, crypto investors earned more than $20 billion from validating transactions on PoS blockchains. Decrypt cited data from a report by the investment startup Staked.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35121,"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":[1289,77,1252],"class_list":["post-35120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-cryptocurrency-staking","tag-proof-of-stake","tag-reports"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"26","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35120","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=35120"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35120\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35122,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35120\/revisions\/35122"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}