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Blockdaemon Blog
Blockdaemon Bulletin | June 2025
Jun 26, 2025
By:
Conor
Keville
&
Welcome to this month's edition of the Blockdaemon Bulletin.
Blockdaemon announced the launch of Earn Stack. It is designed as the complete solution for institutions to offer industry leading earn opportunities to their customers in a secure and compliant way. Earn Stack brings together market-leading staking services for over 50 protocols with newly integrated, extensive DeFi capabilities, including access to numerous DeFi pools and bridges. For more information visit our website.
We’ve officially completed our acquisition of expand.network, strengthening our institutional DeFi offering. With expand.network’s unified API will be integrated into our platform - enabling fater time-to-market, simplified engineering, and seamless multi-chain DeFi access for institutions. We also welcome Demo Skalkotos and Varun Gyanchandani to our leadership team as we enter this exciting new chapter. Read the full announcement.
Blockdaemon has completed its SOC 2 Type II compliance report—validating that our security controls operate effectively every day, not just on paper. This milestone complements our ISO 27001 certification and ongoing commitment to operational security and resilience. Read the full blog.
On May 29th, the SEC’s Division of Corporation Finance issued a long-anticipated guidance clarifying how certain protocol-level staking activities may fit within U.S. securities laws. While not formal rulemaking, the statement is the clearest yet from the SEC, acknowledging that staking directly with a protocol-where a user retains control and rewards are defined by protocol rules-does not necessarily constitute a securities offering. This guidance gives staking providers and infrastructure players clearer guardrails and a welcome signal to move forward more confidently. Full recap of the SEC’s statement.
Blockdaemon validators achieved a 3.32% Protocol Reward Rate (PRR) on Ethereum in May 2025, exceeding the 3.12% network average despite post-Pectra volatility. Download the full May Ethereum performance reportto read about the market context, validator stats, and more updates.
Blockdaemon’s Solana validator delivered a 9.13% Protocol Reward Rate (PRR) in May 2025, outpacing the 8.78% network average. See the full May Solana performance report - including Solana ecosystem updates and validator analytics - here.
ZJ Ow-Yang from the APAC team was a guest on the XDC Network Podcast where she shared insights on blockchain adoption in APAC, scalable staking infrastructure, and the growing synergy between XDC & Blockdaemon. Tune in here.
Event Recap
Blockdaemon Leading Permissionless IV
VIP Lounge by Blockdaemon | Coffee chat with our leadership team
Fireside Chat | Konstantin Richter x Jason Yanowitz on “How to Build Through Bull & Bear Markets”
Staked & Stirred VIP Reception by Blockdaemon x Blockworks
Permissionless Private Dinner with top decision makers shaping web3 in US
Nordic Blockchain Conference — Largest Web3 Event in Scandinavia
Tim Clausen, Blockdaemon Sales Managing Director, shared insights on global stakes of staking alongside Alexandra Overgaag (Thrilld Labs), Giovanni Ruggiero (Figment), Henri Allik (Stakin), Lorenzo Barbantini Scanni (Collosus digital).
Istanbul Blockchain Week
At one of the region’s most influential Web3 gatherings, Tim Clausen spoke on the panel “Institutional Adoption of Crypto in Türkiye & Beyond” with Ajit Tripathi (Avail), Mo Yousef (Fuze), Elbruz Yılmaz (Outrun)!
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