Interactive Brokers Ethereum Staking Takes Aim at Crypto Exchanges

Interactive Brokers has opened Ethereum staking to eligible Interactive Brokers LLC clients through zerohash. The launch caps a year in which the broker added stablecoin funding and wallet transfers. Interactive Brokers led a funding round in zerohash, the company that runs its staking backend. Rival brokers are chasing the same crypto customers, often on the same infrastructure. Interactive Brokers (NASDAQ: IBKR) on October 13 began offering Ethereum staking to eligible clients of Interactive Brokers LLC, letting them lock up ETH from the IBKR Client Portal and collect rewards paid in additional ETH, with zerohash running the validator infrastructure behind the…