$3 billion-Anchorage Digital announces its support for STRK staking on Starknet

$3 billion-Anchorage Digital, the first crypto firm to secure a US national bank in 2021, has announced its support for STRK staking on Starknet. Now, STRK staking is officially live on the Anchorage Digital ￰0￱ support allows institutions to securely custody and stake ￰1￱ to Starknet, “A massive milestone opening the door to institutional players seeking trusted access to Starknet.” Now live on the Anchorage Digital platform: STRK staking Anchorage Digital Bank is the first qualified custodian to support STRK custody and ￰2￱ can now stake STRK, collect rewards, and help strengthen the @Starknet ￰3￱ — Anchorage Digital ⚓ Ventures is Live (@Anchorage) September 3, 2025 Meanwhile, the announcement comes just two weeks after StarkNet revealed its plans to integrate Bitcoin staking into its ecosystem under proposal ￰4￱ community approved the developments with a 93.6% vote in ￰5￱ integration will allow wrapped Bitcoin assets such as WBTC, LBTC, tBTC, and SolvBTC to participate in the network’s staking ￰6￱ consensus model will give Bitcoin a 25% weighting in staking power, while StarkNet’s native token STRK will hold the remaining 75%.

STRK users have regained confidence- STRK coin up 2% The adoption follows the rollout of the Grinta upgrade, also referred to as ￰7￱ upgrade aimed to overhaul core infrastructure with features like a decentralized sequencer, updated fee markets, and a new mempool system. However, as reported by Cryptopolitan, the upgrade came with an unexpected outage that outraged users. Starknet’s status page says that between 2:23 AM and 4:36 AM UTC, users had gateways that weren’t working and transactions that weren’t ￰8￱ this, developers had to reorganize the chain starting at block number 1,960,612, which erased almost an hour of network ￰9￱ transactions sent during that period had to be ￰10￱ was the second time Starknet had gone down in less than two ￰11￱ network went down for 13 minutes on July 18 because of slow block creation and gateway ￰12￱ April 2024, a rounding error problem caused a four-hour outage, which was worse than the previous ￰13￱ developers assured users that block production had resumed and RPC providers were operational, confidence in the network’s reliability was shaken.

Starknet’s native token, STRK, fell more than 3% during the downtime. However, now it is up 2.4% t rading at ￰14￱ price chart) lifted its consent order against Anchorage Digital three years after it was first issued in April ￰15￱ order was related to deficiencies in the crypto bank’s anti-money laundering (AML) controls and compliance with the Bank Secrecy Act (BSA). Meanwhile, in the first half of 2025, the company made $29.4 million in fiduciary income, showing that it is a reliable custodian for BlackRock’s spot crypto ETFs and other ￰16￱ seen where it ￰17￱ in Cryptopolitan Research and reach crypto’s sharpest investors and builders.