Key points
- Cardano will allow ADA users to stake and store their funds on Coinbase Custody.
- The partnership will enable staking of ADA while it’s secured in cold wallets.
The company at the helm of developing Cardano, “IOHK,” has announced a partnership with Coinbase to offer Custody of the Cardano (ADA) coin, according to an announcement today. The arrangement will enable Cardano holders/users to store and stake their Cardano while keeping their assets securely stored in cold wallets. It will launch sometime this Q4, after staking rewards on Cardano’s “Shelley” mainnet become available, this August.
Cardano was trading at $00.023 on march 16,2020 and now sits at $00.10, marking an increase in price of approximately 434% in the last 3-4 months.
Cardano’s Shelley upgrade
The Cardano blockchain is set to enter a transformative new era over the coming weeks. Its transition from “Byron,” a static, federated blockchain, to “Shelley,” the dynamic, decentralized version.
“With Cardano, we believe we can create a revolutionary solution which will be able to offer access to finance and investment to swathes of the population who have previously been shut out of the system,” IOHK CEO Charles Hoskinson said, in a statement.
He added that the new custody agreement will allow IOHK to provide institutional-grade storage solutions to its community, without compromising their ability to participate in the network.
IOHK has celebrated the advent of Shelley with a slew of new announcements, made at its virtual conference, which ends today.
The company has started a $20 million dev fund, partnering with Wave Financial Group; a new digital identity system named Atala PRISM, and has announced news of Gougen—its governance project.
The Shelley upgrade culminates in a hard fork in July, after which, in August, the first staking rewards will be ready for Coinbase Custody—for those so inclined.
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