Earn rewards with staking

Accept User Terms

• You may be required to accept User Terms specific to the asset you’d like to stake

Coinbase commission

• Coinbase receives a commission on staked rewards

• Your return rate reflects the commission and the actual amount of crypto you staked

Ownership of staked crypto

• You retain full ownership of your staked crypto at all times

Rewards balance

• Coinbase does not guarantee that you’ll receive staking rewards 

• All staking rewards are credited to your staking balance and appear as a transaction

• Each reward appears as a line item in your transaction history

Rewards payout

• Coinbase forwards rewards received from the blockchain, minus a transparent commission

• Reward payouts depend on the specific asset

Rewards value

• Determined by the protocol (such as Solana and Ethereum)

• Proportional to how much you have staked

• Can change over time due to network factors (including total amount staked to the network and/or total number of validators) and inflation and savings rates set by the network

Risk

• Staked assets can't be traded or transferred until the unstaking process completes

• The unstaking process can take from a few hours to a few weeks to complete

• Staked assets may be at risk from validator or protocol failure

• Coinbase may unstake your assets if your eligibility status changes

• Protocol lockup periods may delay unstaking your assets

• See Staking risks for more information

Waiting periods

• Coinbase follows protocol-imposed waiting periods for earning rewards and unstaking

• Some assets have a staking wait time before you start earning rewards

• After the initial waiting period, you can unstake assets at any time but they can't be transferred or sold until the unstaking wait time is complete

• Unstaking wait times include the protocol's wait time plus Coinbase's processing time

• Some assets earn rewards during the unstaking wait time