The Making of an Asset Class: Staking’s Next Chapter

New asset classes don’t appear by decree — they emerge when size, volatility and diverse participants converge. When that happens, a set of risks and rewards becomes too important, too dynamic and too widely traded to ignore. That is the point at which investors stop treating it as a feature of the market and start recognizing it as an asset class. Staking is approaching that point. The scale is undeniable. More than half a trillion dollars of assets are staked across proof-of-stake networks. Ethereum ...