Ethereum (ETH) treasury companies need liquid staking and aggressive yield-generation strategies to offer investors higher returns than U.S.-listed ether staking products, the claim said.
Cointelegraph reported on Monday that Kean Gilbert (킨 길버트), Lido's head of institutional relationships, said at EthCC 2026 that using strategies such as providing ether as collateral and borrowing against it can generate higher returns than passive staking products.
Liquid staking is a method in which ether holders stake tokens and receive transferable tokens that can be used in decentralised finance (DeFi).
U.S.-listed ether staking products include the REX-Osprey ETH+Staking ETF launched in September 2025, Grayscale's Ethereum staking ETF and Ethereum staking mini ETF, and BlackRock's iShares staked Ethereum trust ETF.
Grayscale ETHE posted a net staking yield of 2.26 percent as of April 6, while ETH recorded 2.56 percent as of April 2. Ethereum's native staking yield is about 2.72 percent a year, according to Staking Rewards.
Chi-gyu Hwang
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