Can you stake Ethereum right now?

With the Ethereum 2.0 upgrade, Coinbase customers will be able to earn rewards using the second most popular cryptocurrency after bitcoin. Staking allows customers to earn a yield of up to 5% for simply holding ETH2 .

As part of Ethereum’s upgrade, it’s switching to a proof of stake consensus mechanism. This means validation power is given to computer nodes according to their Ethereum holdings. These validators put up their stake as a collateral of sorts. You can stake as an individual .

Liquid staking pool stats according to Dune Analytics on September 6, 2021. The Lido liquid staking pool has around 1,167,007 ether staking today, according to Dune Analytics stats. $5.35 billion of the overall $29.3 billion locked is being staked by large pools and that’s about 18.09% of the 7.4 million ether today.