{"id":33,"date":"2026-07-07T21:22:46","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T20:22:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bitadvent.com\/what-is-ethereum-staking\/"},"modified":"2026-07-08T21:33:42","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T20:33:42","slug":"what-is-ethereum-staking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bitadvent.com\/es\/what-is-ethereum-staking\/","title":{"rendered":"What Is Ethereum Staking? How Proof-of-Stake Rewards Work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since Ethereum moved to proof of stake, the network is secured not by miners but by <em>validators<\/em> who lock up ETH as collateral. In return for helping to process and confirm blocks honestly, validators earn rewards. This is what people mean by &#8220;staking&#8221;.<\/p>\n<h2>How it works<\/h2>\n<p>Running your own validator requires 32 ETH and a reliable, always-on setup. The validator proposes and attests to blocks; behave honestly and you earn rewards, go offline or act maliciously and you can be penalised \u2014 a process called slashing.<\/p>\n<h2>Pooled and liquid staking<\/h2>\n<p>Because 32 ETH is a high bar, most people stake through a pool or a liquid-staking service. You contribute any amount, the provider runs the validators, and you receive rewards proportional to your stake. Liquid-staking tokens go a step further, giving you a tradeable token that represents your staked ETH so you can use it elsewhere in DeFi.<\/p>\n<h2>The risks<\/h2>\n<p>Staking is not risk-free. Rewards vary with network activity, staked ETH can be subject to withdrawal queues, and using a third-party service adds smart-contract and counterparty risk. Slashing, while rare for careful operators, is real. Yields are also quoted in ETH, so the fiat value still rises and falls with the market.<\/p>\n<p>You can track ETH and the wider market on our <a href=\"\/coins\/ethereum\/\">Ethereum page<\/a>. Not financial advice \u2014 always do your own research.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Staking secures Ethereum and earns rewards. Here is how it works, the difference between running a validator and pooled staking, and the risks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":127,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ethereum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitadvent.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitadvent.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitadvent.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitadvent.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitadvent.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bitadvent.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57,"href":"https:\/\/bitadvent.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33\/revisions\/57"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitadvent.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitadvent.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitadvent.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitadvent.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}