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- Category
- Retail Staking
- Entity
- All 6 Kraken products
- Official website
- kraken.com
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Details
Scored 56 out of 100 under methodology 2026.10.18, from the evidence read in October 2026.
Kraken ETH Staking
Bonded ETH staking inside Kraken
Retail Staking
#2 Overall
Ranked #2 of 7 retail staking in the published ranking
56
ChainChoice Score
The ChainChoice Score, shown against 100: published scores run from 41 to 99.- High evidence confidence
- $400 commission/yr
Is Kraken ETH Staking right for you?
Right for you if these matter most
- Rate shown before sign-up8/10, the category best
Look elsewhere if these come first
- Share of the ETH reward you keep4/10 here; Revolut ETH Staking scores 9
- Way back to ETH4/10 here; Coinbase ETH Staking scores 7
Not yet tested for your country. Markets it lists: Europe, Canada.
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What will Kraken ETH Staking cost you?
$400 commission/yr
- Your stake
- $32k
- Expected gross yield
- 5%
- Commission on rewards
- 25%
$160 above the median of 5 priced retail staking.
How this is calculatedHow safe is Kraken ETH Staking?
- Evidence: verified3 of 3 criteria rest on quoted, sourced receipts. Read October 2026.
- LicenceMiCA (EU): no register record on file here.
- On the registersMiCA: authorised, PAYWARD EUROPE SOLUTIONS LIMITED (IE, since 2025-06-25). Read 3 November 2026. Open the registerMiCA: authorised, PAYWARD GLOBAL SOLUTIONS LIMITED (IE, since 2025-06-25). Read 3 November 2026. Register
Alternatives to Kraken ETH Staking
Compare all 4- 3Coinbase ETH Staking1 point below · stronger on exit path (7 against 4)55$560
- 4Revolut ETH Staking2 points below · stronger on net yield after commission (9 against 4)54$48
- 5OKX ETH Staking5 points below · stronger on exit path (7 against 4)51
For your setup
Find out if Kraken ETH Staking fits you
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Why this rank
Why Kraken ETH Staking ranks #2
Each strength is read from evidence on a 0–10 ladder and weighted as the published methodology states. The 32 objective points these produce (15.4 here) sit inside the score; availability, friction, trust record and measured data add the rest. Best in this ranking on 1 of 3.
3 published criteria · Σ weight 100
CriterionWeightStrength · 0–10ScoreContrib.MedianBestRankEvidence
504+6.404.09#4/7Loading evidence…
304+3.845.08#5/7Loading evidence…
208+5.125.08#1/7Loading evidence…
Hairline = best in this ranking · tick = its median · a missing bar is "not scored", never zero
Margin−24behind Lido (stETH), #1
RobustnessOne point from changingacross a one-point change to each of its 3 criterion scores, the re-run scores 53–59 and ranks #2–#4
Evidence3 of 3 scored3 quoted, 3 with a source link
What would move the rank
Each line is the ranking run again with one of Kraken ETH Staking’s criterion scores changed and every other value held: the smallest whole-point change on that criterion that moves its rank, and where the re-run puts it. Up to 4 climbs and 3 falls are listed, smallest change first. Nothing here is a forecast.
Share of the ETH reward you keep 4 → 3 on its ladder · Coinbase ETH Staking passes it−153#2 → #4
Way back to ETH 4 → 3 on its ladder · Coinbase ETH Staking passes it−154#2 → #4
Rate shown before sign-up 8 → 6 on its ladder · Coinbase ETH Staking passes it−253#2 → #4
Strengths
1 from the score dataWhere it leads
Best for readers who weight
- Rate shown before sign-up — 8/10, the category best
Tradeoffs
2 from the score dataWhere it trails
Not for readers who put first
- Share of the ETH reward you keep — 4/10 against a category best of 9/10
- Way back to ETH — 4/10 against a category best of 8/10
Record watch-outs
- ETH is offered as bonded staking only, so you wait for the unbonding period after you unstake; Kraken gives a general floor ("3 or more days, depending on the asset"), not an ETH figure. The flexible product, where it exists for other assets, takes 30%.
Competitive position
Where Kraken ETH Staking leads and where it trails
Rank on every objective dimension among the rows scored on it. A criterion in the top third of its pool is listed as a lead, the bottom third as a trail; the middle is neither. Popularity, size and commercial terms are not dimensions.
Availability#3 / 711.0 of 20 · best 14.0
Published criteria#4 / 711.5 of 30 · best 17.8
Friction#1 / 72.7 of 10 · constant here
Trust record#1 / 73.2 of 8 · constant here
Measured data#1 / 78.3 of 18 · constant here
Where Kraken ETH Staking leads
- Rate shown before sign-up#1 / 7
Where it trails
- Way back to ETH#5 / 7
Closest alternatives
The 3 nearest rows by score
Nearest by published score in either direction. Each card states the criteria on which the two rows differ and the cost difference under the same scenario inputs; the compare arithmetic below shows why the higher one ranks higher.
Coinbase ETH Staking#3 of 7 · score 55 · 1.0 point behind
Kraken ETH Staking leads on
- Share of the ETH reward you keep4 vs 3
- Rate shown before sign-up8 vs 5
Coinbase ETH Staking leads on
- Way back to ETH7 vs 4
Largest single reason Kraken ETH Staking is ahead: published criteria (+1.3 display points).Scenario cost: Coinbase ETH Staking is +$160 against Kraken ETH Staking.
Revolut ETH Staking#4 of 7 · score 54 · 2.0 points behind
Kraken ETH Staking leads on
- Way back to ETH4 vs 3
- Rate shown before sign-up8 vs 6
Revolut ETH Staking leads on
- Share of the ETH reward you keep9 vs 4
Largest single reason Kraken ETH Staking is ahead: availability (+13.0 display points).Scenario cost: Revolut ETH Staking is −$352 against Kraken ETH Staking.
OKX ETH Staking#5 of 7 · score 51 · 5.0 points behind
Kraken ETH Staking leads on
- Share of the ETH reward you keep4 vs 2
- Rate shown before sign-up8 vs 5
OKX ETH Staking leads on
- Way back to ETH7 vs 4
Largest single reason Kraken ETH Staking is ahead: published criteria (+4.4 display points).Scenario cost: OKX ETH Staking has no verified pricing for this scenario.
Against the leader
80 vs 56 · gap 24.0Why Lido (stETH) ranks above Kraken ETH Staking
The compare workspace's arithmetic applied to these two rows. Each dimension's share of the gap is its weight × the difference, on the displayed scale — it reproduces the displayed gap of 24.0 to within rounding.
DimensionThisLido (stETH)Gap share
Availability · 23% weight11.014.0−7.8, worse
Published criteria · 35% weight11.517.8−16.4, worse
Friction · 12% weight · constant here2.72.7same
Trust record · 9% weight · constant here3.23.2same
Measured data · 21% weight · constant here8.38.3same
Published criterionThisLido (stETH)Points
Share of the ETH reward you keep · w5048−6.40, worse
Way back to ETH · w3048−3.84, worse
Rate shown before sign-up · w2085+1.92, better
Net5680−24.0
Your scenario
What Kraken ETH Staking costs on your scenario
The operator's cut of the rewards your stake earns — not a fee on the stake itself. Gross yield is your assumption, not ours. Change an input and every figure recomputes from the published rate; the published rank does not move.
commission/yr · default scenario — set your own
Your stake · your input$32k
Expected gross yield · your input5%
Commission on rewards · published rate25%
Rate read from the provider’s published pricing ↗ on 28 October 2026.
commission/yrCost is stated as commission/yr in USD; it is never a yield, never annualised, and it does not enter the score.
$400
Under the default inputs · USDCategory median$2405 of 7 rows priced · Kraken ETH Staking +$160 vs median
Cheapest priced$48 · Revolut ETH StakingKraken ETH Staking costs +$352 more · availability not applied — set your country to filterCompare with Revolut ETH Staking
2 of 7 rows in this ranking have no verified rate for this scenario and are absent from the median, not counted as free.
Evidence
Evidence read 28 October 2026
One row per published criterion: the page each strength was read from, its source type by domain, the reading date and whether the file and the published table agree. Open a row for the quote and the receipt.
3 of 3 cells scored
Score evidenceVerified3 of 3 criteria reconstruct from receipts
3 of 3 criteria reconstruct from a quoted, sourced receipt equal to the published strength.Public receiptsReading…3 quoted with a source URL
The receipt file has not been read yet.Evidence confidenceHighcoverage and corroboration, never freshness
3/3 criteria scored, with 3 dated sources quoted.RobustnessOne point from changingrank #2 to #4 across one-point re-runs
Whether the position holds when one criterion score is changed by one point and the ranking is run again. It is always a re-run of the ranking, never an estimate.The newest evidence read on the platform is 3 November 2026; this category's reading is older. The scores stand as read on 28 October 2026.
Reading the evidence ledger…
CriterionSourceTypeReadFreshnessStatusReceipt
Share of the ETH reward you keepstrength 4 · weight 50Report an error—28 October 2026*
Unknown
No reading date is recorded for this cell or its category.No receipt
A strength is published but no quote or source page is on file for it.Way back to ETHstrength 4 · weight 30Report an error—28 October 2026*
Unknown
No reading date is recorded for this cell or its category.No receipt
A strength is published but no quote or source page is on file for it.Rate shown before sign-upstrength 8 · weight 20Report an error—28 October 2026*
Unknown
No reading date is recorded for this cell or its category.No receipt
A strength is published but no quote or source page is on file for it.How you can lose money here, and what the ranking scores
- Exit failure (Kraken ETH Staking 4/10): you cannot get out at par, on time, or with what is yours.Scored by Way back to ETH · 30%
- Information failure (Kraken ETH Staking 8/10): the number is wrong or bought, or your data leaks.Scored by Rate shown before sign-up · 20%
Not assessed by this ranking: Control failure, Liveness failure, Custody failure, Insolvency failure, Regulatory failure, Execution failure. A high place says nothing about these; the Methodology tab says what each means. Also scored, as cost, quality or a summary of several families: Share of the ETH reward you keep (50%).
Facts
facts, not scoresWhat the record publishes
- Pricing
- Kraken staking overview, read 28 October 2026 ("Last updated: August 19, 2026"): "There are currently no transaction fees for staking or unstaking. Kraken takes a commission based on the rewards you receive from the network." Bonded tiers: "Tier 1 $0-1M 25%", "Tier 2 $1-5M 20%", "Tier 3 $5-50M 10%", "Tier 4 $50-100M 5%", "Tier 5 $100M+ 0%". The 25% used here is the tier a retail balance falls in. The ETH rate on kraken.com, 2.81%, is "before our commission".Kraken — official support article ↗ · 28 October 2026
- Prices published in
- USDKraken — official support article ↗ · 28 October 2026
- Licences held
- Not published
- Compliance level
- partial
- Regulatory note
- EEA: Payward Global Solutions Limited, CBI MiCA CASP (ESMA register, 25 June 2025). UK: "Financial Conduct Authority ( FCA ) Registered Cryptoasset Firm (Payward Limited, FRN 928768)". US: FinCEN MSB (Payward Interactive, Inc.). All from Kraken's own licence page, read 28 October 2026.
- Supported chains
- Ethereum
- Markets served
- europe, ca
- Primary markets
- Not published
- Restricted markets
- Not published
- Operating limits
- Not published
- Availability note
- Kraken's licence and restriction page (support.kraken.com/articles/where-is-kraken-licensed-or-regulated, "Last updated: September 30, 2026", read 28 October 2026) lists UK restrictions on Opt-in Rewards, DeFi Earn, Krak, derivatives and xStocks, none on staking; EEA restrictions on Babylon Bitcoin Staking and Opt-in Rewards only. Canada section: "Cannot trade ETH2.S, however can stake ETH." US section: "Rewards feature on Kraken is only available to select US states." The page names no states, so the US is left out here rather than assumed.
Legal entity on file: Kraken, placed in 6 products. Only confirmed entities are shown; nothing is inferred from the brand name.
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How this page is reviewed
Reviewed means this product in this category was read against its sources on or after that date; every ranked category is re-read at least every 45 days. Models research, extract and parse. A deterministic engine ranks. Every quote passes an adversarial refute pass.
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History
What the record carries
Changes to published ranks are recorded in a ledger; every step and its cause is listed on the rank-history page. The entries below begin with the current verified snapshot, then the methodology versions whose changes applied to this category, newest first.
9 methodology entries
- 28 October 2026Current verified snapshot · methodology 2026.10.18Score 56, #2 of 7. 3 of 3 criteria scored. History starts here; earlier values are not interpolated.
- 28 October 2026
2026.10.18A new ranking for retail ETH staking: where to stake ETH from an app or an exchange, scored on the share of the reward you keep- added Lido (stETH), Kraken ETH Staking, Coinbase ETH Staking, Revolut ETH Staking, OKX ETH Staking, Bitstamp Earn Staking and Bybit ETH Staking enter Retail Staking, ranked in that order.
- added Lido (stETH) enters first on the Retail Staking country pages for Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Finland, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Ireland, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, Norway, the Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Singapore, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Thailand, the United Arab Emirates, the United Kingdom, the United States and Vietnam.
- added Retail Staking: seven ETH staking products ranked on the share of the reward kept, the exit routes and the rate disclosure, each read on 28 October 2026 from the provider's own pages, its public API or a regulator's register, with the page captures committed.
- added A rate counts as shown before sign-up only with its basis stated in words: no Lido page says whether its 7-day APR is before or after the 10% fee, so Lido (stETH) scores 5 of 10 there, not the 9 an inference from its API code would give.
- 10 October 2026
2026.10.8When nothing serves your country, the list shown for reference is the published ranking · platform-wide- fixed The reference list shown when nothing serves your country is the published order with the published scores, and a build check now fails any such list out of that order or with a score the ranking does not publish.
- fixed The explorer prints an overall rank only for a row the published ranking holds; a country entrant such as Coinbase Commerce for US merchants shows no overall rank.
- changed Published orders do not move. Country results change only where nothing serves the country: in India bill pay keeps Bitcoin Well first and now shows Strike second, as published; 35 such runs across all categories and countries now match the published list exactly.
- 10 October 2026
2026.10.6A criterion you require re-scores the rows that meet it · platform-wide- changed The explorer sends each criterion you require, at any band, as fit_required with your other answers; region, licence, chain and fact filters stay filters. On /best, a required criterion joins For you as a marked preference does, which needs your country; Overall stays the published ranking, filtered.
- added Every published criterion has a golden case as the explorer sends it (require:<criterion>), so the order a requirement gives is replayed and gated as the published order is, and a change to it needs an entry here.
Methodology 2026.10.18, the same published run every visitor sees · receipt retail_staking:kraken-eth-staking:2026.10.18:b5105e08f7a1
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