According to an email sent to affected users on November 2, Coinbase has stopped access to its staking services in Maryland, US. Coinbase said affected users can no longer immediately invest additional funds and will cancel any funds pledged by users after June 5, including any accrued rewards. It also stated that these funds will be deposited into the user's main balance. Nonetheless, users will continue to receive rewards from any balances that remain staked, although these rewards will not be staked again, and users can also voluntarily request to unstake their rewards at any time. The email states that the Maryland Securities Commissioner issued a preliminary cease and desist order regarding Coinbase’s staking services on June 6. In addition to the order, the agency launched a broader case against Coinbase. Coinbase participated in discussions with the Maryland Securities Division and said it must now adjust its services as the case progresses. (Cryptoslate)

Bifrost launches new liquidity staking DApp. Through this DApp, users can stake, redeem and exchange any Bifrost LST. For example, users can directly stake DOT and Bifrost LST on various side chains such as Moonbeam and Astar without having to cross-chain and transfer them to the EVM chain.

Ether.fi launches the liquid staking token eETH, which can be re-staking on EigenLayer. The team plans to open source the entire protocol in December this year and implement DAO governance in March 2024. (CoinDesk)

Odaily Planet Daily News Coinbase Prime officially announced that it has opened Aptos (APT) staking service.

Odaily Planet Daily News Cosmos core developers completed the "Gaia v12" upgrade on Cosmos Hub. The upgrade introduced the liquidity staking module, allowing stakers to convert pledged Atoms into liquid pledged Atoms. (The Block)

Odaily Planet Daily News Sui official website issued a document stating that the Sui testnet now supports liquidity staking, and this function will be added to the mainnet in the next upgrade after all compatibility tests are completed. Sui said that this upgrade was completed through SIP6. Before that, the pledgers of the Sui network would receive an encapsulated asset representing their rights and interests after completing the pledge, but this asset cannot be circulated, so this means that the pledged tokens are actually has been removed from circulation. After the upgrade, the encapsulated token will be able to be freely transferred and traded, which means that developers will be able to provide liquidity staking services and create more DeFi applications based on this.

The liquid staking protocol StakeWise launched V3, which provides a staking pool market called Vaults, allowing users to customize staking mechanisms, such as staking with specific operators on custom terms or self-custodial staking. No matter which pledge mode users adopt, they can get osETH tokens representing pledged Ethereum.

Huobi has reached a strategic cooperation with Justlend DAO to support stUSDT staking services. The stUSDT platform provides users with a pledge service to pledge USDT to obtain RWA rewards on Tron, and Huobi users can obtain pledge income on the Huobi platform by holding stUSDT.

Aptos announced the launch of Delegated Staking, which allows users to delegate their staking rights to trusted network validators and earn rewards as individuals. This means that token holders can help secure the network by delegating at least 11 APTs to validators without running validators themselves. This feature was developed by the Bware Labs team.