Happy 8th Birthday, Everstake!

Eight years ago, Everstake processed its first staking transaction, and that delegation is the moment we count as our beginning. What started as an engineering-first, bootstrapped team is now one of the largest non-custodial staking providers in the world. 

In year 8, the company expanded toward full institutional coverage across US, EMEA, and APAC, while keeping the discipline around reliability that defined the first seven years.

Year 8 in Partnerships

This year produced one of the strongest partnership slates in Everstake’s history. We’ve secured 8 wallet integrations, including hardware wallets, mobile apps, MiCA-compliant EU banking, and the US ETF market. 

We are happy to share some of the partnership highlights:

Trezor: ADA Staking, Then ETH Mobile

We have proudly expanded our relationship with Trezor. In September 2025, Everstake signed a Cardano (ADA) staking partnership with Trezor, one of the most recognized names in crypto self-custody. A joint campaign offered 0% fees on Cardano staking, lowering the threshold for self-custody users to take part. This made Everstake the ADA staking provider for Trezor’s global user base.

The collaboration then extended to Ethereum on mobile suite. Everstake brought ETH staking to Trezor Mobile on iOS, giving hardware-wallet users a path to participate directly from their phones. Notably, in May 2026, a single 20,000 ETH delegation flowed through this integration, picked up by on-chain analytics from OnchainLens.

Canary Capital: First US ETF Reference

Canary Capital, a US-based digital asset management firm, became Everstake’s first public ETF client. The Canary Staked SUI ETF (SUIS) officially listed on Nasdaq in February 2026, seeded with $24M in its first month.

To meet the strict criteria, Canary Capital selected Everstake as its foundational staking partner. Everstake distinguished itself as the validator committed to operational excellence and certified across a “five-pillar” framework of institutional compliance.

The structure routes SUI holdings through BitGo’s qualified custody, which then delegates to validators such as Everstake. 

Read our Canary Capital Case Study and Nasdaq feature on PoS with Canary Capital. 

Pye Finance: Programmable Stake Accounts on Solana

Everstake partnered with Pye Finance, a Solana-native catalyst in validator finance, to support Programmable Stake Accounts (PSAs). The primitive lets stakers access new financial capabilities on top of existing positions without disrupting them.

As a core validator partner, Everstake is helping shape these tools early, contributing operational insight into reward economics. Everstake stakers gain early access to custom rewards, stake-account trading, variable rewards, and first-mover DeFi pilots on Solana.

Cometh: Fiat-to-Staking Under MiCA

In January 2026, Everstake partnered with Cometh, a licensed EU custodian and Banking-as-a-Service provider, to enable fiat-to-staking flows compliant with MiCA. Clients deposit fiat from a bank account, convert it to crypto, stake, and settle rewards back into fiat.

The process combines Web2 simplicity with Web3 participation. Institutional involvement in staking reached 44% in 2025, up from 31% in 2024, and more than 150 crypto firms now hold MiCA licenses.

Cypherock and Digital Shield: Hardware Self-Custody

Everstake also deepened its presence in hardware self-custody. The partnership with Cypherock extended audited, non-custodial staking to users of its seedless hardware solution.

The collaboration with Digital Shield added secure, non-custodial ETH and SOL staking. Users delegate SOL to Everstake from the wallet’s built-in DeFi tab, with every transaction signed inside a CC EAL6+ secure chip and keys never leaving the device.

369 Wallet: APAC Mobile Staking

Everstake integrated its Wallet SDK into 369 Wallet, a flagship product by Alpsoft, a studio based in Seongnam-si, South Korea. The integration brought native non-custodial ETH, SOL, and APT staking directly inside the mobile app, starting at 0.1 ETH. 

Solana-related Partnerships: Koda, Corvus Labs, DoubleZero

Three further collaborations strengthened the Solana side. 

Everstake partnered with Koda to expand validator support, and worked with Corvus Labs and Doublezero on Solana infrastructure, reinforcing performance on a high-throughput network.

Institutional Platforms and Custodians

Collaborations with Zodia, Classover, io.finnet, Colossus Digital, and Utila expanded the number of custodians, enterprise networks, and professional platforms offering staking backed by Everstake’s audited, high-uptime operations.

Institutions can now provide secure, non-custodial staking to their users without building their own validator setups, reinforcing Everstake as a deeper part of the infrastructure they operate on every day.

MCP

The year also brought a forward-looking release. In June 2026, Everstake launched an open-source MCP (Model Context Protocol) server, giving AI agents direct access to live staking data across 130+ networks through a single structured AI-legible interface, with 11 tools covering live data, staking, and integration requests.

Solana Product Suite Expansion

This year was a landmark in broadening the Solana product suite beyond staking, moving deeper into blockspace and data infrastructure. The expansion targets the teams that run trading systems, validators, and RPC services on Solana.

Two products have been presented so far, with (spoiler alert) more high-tier Solana products by Everstake coming very soon.

SWQoS is a stake-weighted RPC access service that routes transactions through a priority lane backed by Everstake’s stake, holding throughput steady even during peak congestion. It carries a 99.9% SLA-backed uptime, featuring tiers from pay-as-you-go to 50 TPS, and runs from geo-distributed nodes in FRA, AMS, NYC, and TYO.

ShredStream delivers near-real-time raw Solana shreds directly from network leaders. By cutting hundreds of milliseconds of latency, it gives high-frequency traders, validators, and data platforms a native-level performance edge on a network with 400ms block times.

Staking Milestones of the Year

We are happy that our infrastructure kept setting records. The single most notable milestone was crossing 1,000,000 ETH staked with Everstake, a number that continues growing.

Our partnerships with hardware and mobile wallets drove much of the growth over the year:

We also spotted two of a sheer size this year. A 20,000 ETH were staked through the Trezor Mobile integration in May 2026, and a separate 50,000 ETH stake was delegated to us a month earlier.

We’re grateful for the trust and remain committed to the operational standards our delegators deserve.

Security & Compliance 

Claims about security mean little without independent proof, so at Everstake we make sure to continuously pursue it, passing audits every year.

The ETH2 Batch Deposit Contract was independently audited by Ackee Blockchain Security in March 2026. It received a low-risk score, with all identified issues addressed in the fixed review.

On compliance, Everstake expanded its framework to include NIST CSF and CCPA, building on existing SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001:2022, and GDPR alignment. Together these form a five-pillar posture that very few staking providers can claim, one that opens doors with custodians and regulated partners.

This work is ongoing. We continue our regulatory and security-first approach, with more compliance and certification news to come out soon.

A Year of Events

We showed up at every major hub, from Frankfurt to Singapore to Dubai, but our presence at Consensus Miami has been the most anticipated event so far.

Consensus Miami 2026

Over a single week, at Consensus Miami 2026 in May 2026, the Everstake GTM team ran 100+ meetings, the most concentrated stretch of institutional conversations in the company’s history.

Rather than only attending, Everstake hosted its own programming through the Everstake Yield Hub, a two-day track built for institutional decision makers. The centerpiece of our Consensus presence was the Institutional Digital Asset Forum, we co-hosted with the Ethereum Foundation. It was a focused, education-driven gathering for institutional decision makers about Ethereum participation. 

Three of our expert panels explored Ethereum staking, institutional DeFi, and the bridge from TradFi to on-chain markets, followed by a networking reception that brought together leading researchers, builders, and allocators.

Speakers included representatives from the Ethereum Foundation, Anchorage, Grayscale, CF Benchmarks, Purpose Investments, and others, moderated by Everstake team with discussions spanning stablecoins as settlement infrastructure, L2 security inheritance, and the operational requirements for banks and custodians entering the Ethereum ecosystem.

Positioning the event in the Botanical Garden directly adjacent to the main conference center offered a retreat-like setting where attendees could decompress and engage in conversation over a relaxed drink.

What’s up for year 9?

Looking into year 9, the operational rigor that carried us through eight years is the same rigor we apply to everything next. The same high bar for infrastructure quality and compliance that defined year 8 remains our main institutional direction. 

We are looking into building partnerships rooted in long-term stability, while doing what we do best: deepening validator performance, monitoring, and tooling.

The ambition reaches further as we intend to keep advancing the blockchain sector as a whole, growing as a team, and opening new areas for the company along the way.

The mission has not changed in eight years. Our founding motto was simple: be useful. That still shapes everything, from making staking accessible, secure, and reliable to strengthening the foundations of decentralized finance.

Thank you for building this with us.

Follow our growth, check out our seventh and sixth birthday recaps, plus our end-of-2025 milestone review.