{"id":51194,"date":"2021-10-14T13:04:21","date_gmt":"2021-10-14T10:04:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=51194"},"modified":"2025-09-02T22:21:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T19:21:12","slug":"swiss-crypto-bank-seba-opens-institutional-access-to-defi-and-staking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/swiss-crypto-bank-seba-opens-institutional-access-to-defi-and-staking\/","title":{"rendered":"Swiss crypto bank SEBA opens institutional access to DeFi and staking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The regulated <span data-descr=\"Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority\" class=\"old_tooltip\">FINMA<\/span> cryptocurrency bank SEBA <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WeAreSEBA\/status\/1448182013249392642\">announced<\/a> the launch of SEBA Earn. The service will allow institutional clients to earn income from crypto lending operations, <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/what-is-decentralised-finance-defi\">DeFi<\/a> and staking of cryptocurrencies, including Cardano, Polkadot and Tezos.<\/p>\n<p>Lending and borrowing are available in Bitcoin and Ethereum.<\/p>\n<p>In the coming months the platform will expand the list of supported staking assets.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><em>&#8220;In light of growing institutional interest in digital assets, the focus shifts to staking, DeFi and lending operations&#8221;<\/em>, \u2014 said Guido Buehler, CEO of SEBA Bank.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Earlier in September, FINMA <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/swiss-regulator-approves-first-crypto-investment-fund\">approved the first crypto fund<\/a> in accordance with the country&#8217;s legislation. The custodian became the SEBA crypto bank.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, another regulated crypto bank Sygnum offered clients staking <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/what-is-ethereum-2-0\">Ethereum 2.0<\/a> in addition to Tezos.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to the ForkLog channel on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCC9FnXTC8_ENzaNSO5cHQ6g\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> YouTube<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The FINMA-regulated cryptocurrency bank SEBA announced the launch of SEBA Earn. The service will allow institutional clients to earn income from crypto lending operations, DeFi and staking of cryptocurrencies, including Cardano, Polkadot and Tezos.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":51195,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1289,1093,1156,2075,468],"class_list":["post-51194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-cryptocurrency-staking","tag-defi","tag-institutional-investors-and-whales","tag-seba","tag-switzerland"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"22","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51194"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51196,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51194\/revisions\/51196"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}