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Bitvavo now supports staking for three new tokens- SOL, ATOM and LUNA2.

Dutch crypto platform Bitvavo has added three new cryptocurrencies to its staking rewards service.

Now with Solana (SOL), Luna (LUNA2) and Comos (ATOM), customers can leverage their holdings to enjoy staking rewards of up to 10% APY.

Stake SOL, LUNA and ATOM

Staking is one way cryptocurrency holders participate in the network transactions and security of a blockchain network. By locking up their assets for a given period, holders help facilitate the said activities, with a reward earned as part of the incentivisation process.

Bitvavo now supports the above coins, offering a flexible staking feature that allows users to stake or unstake their crypto assets at will.

In their latest update the Dutch-based platform noted the following as the new yearly yield (annual percentage yield, or APY) for the three proof-of-stake digital assets.

Here is what you earn when you stake with Bitvavo:

• Solana (SOL): earn up to 5% reward
• Luna (LUNA2): earn up to 6% reward
• Cosmos (ATOM): earn up to 10% reward

The update means the maximum yearly reward for staked assets on the De Nederlandsche Bank (DNB) regulated platform is higher than the 7.5% initially offered on Icon (ICX).

Users can access and keep tabs on their staked assets in the Bitvavo app.

Cardano (ADA) staking reward update

Apart from adding Solana, Cosmos, and Luna, Bitvavo has updated the staking reward for Cardano (ADA). This has been reevaluated from 5% to 4.25%.

Factors that help determine the yield rate include the average pool rate, blocks per Epochs, amount of ADA pledged and staking costs relating to the percentage of the reward pool operators take.

Bitvavo has over 1 million users and offers up to 180 digital assets, including Bitcoin and Ethereum.

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The venture-backed crypto custody and services firm Fireblocks has added support for Solana. Fireblocks users will now be able to directly interact with Solana applications on Fireblocks’ platform

The integration allows users to connect and interact directly with decentralized applications (dApps) built on the Solana ecosystem. Developers on the Solana ecosystem will also be able to utilize a wide variety of tools.

Fireblocks CEO Michael Shaulov said:

“Fireblocks’ Web3 Engine offers Solana builders the highest level of security when it comes to accessing the blockchain and its ecosystem of applications for their customers.”

According to DeFiLlama, the total locked value on Solana was approximately $1.4 billion making it the sixth largest blockchain in terms of this metric. In addition, Solana’s non-fungible (NFT) community is the second-most active across all blockchains.

Solana price after the integration

After the news of the integration, the price of SOL, Solana’s native token, surged to a daily high of $33.07. The token had however dropped to $31.12 at press time, registering a drop of 2.62% in the past 24 hours.

Today’s drop has made SOL lose half of the gains it had made yesterday and it has aroused fears of resuming the previous bearish trend that had seen it drop to a low of $30.

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Ava Labs founder and CEO Emin Gün Sirer has termed a controversial report by CryptoLeaks as “an obvious fraud” that “everyone should be able to see right through.”

Gün Sirer says the allegations are disheartening and noted that they have come from “false claims” by Ava Labs’ former lawyer Kyle Roche. According to him, Kyle had lied to one of his potential clients about the nature of what he did for Ava Labs – all in an attempt to impress.

He maintains his company has not engaged in any of the activities as alleged by CryptoLeaks.

“The allegations on this site are categorically false. Ava Labs believes in transparency and facing the world head-on, not through behind-the-scenes dealing or activity,” he said in a statement shared on Monday.

Ava Labs had a ‘secret pact’?

In a recent report CryptoLeaks claimed it had damning “spy video” and whistleblower information that showed how Ava Labs, the firm behind the Avalanche (AVAX) blockchain, had engaged in a conspiracy against its rivals.

According to the site, there existed a “secret pact” between Ava Labs and lawyer Kyle Roche of the Roche Freedman LLP firm. Through this pact, Roche would exploit the US legal system in a “gangster style” approach by bringing targeted lawsuits against Ava Labs and Avalanche competitors.

Some of the alleged lawsuits include those against Solana Labs, Bibox and Dfinity Foundation.

The cases were also meant to have the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) among other regulators distracted, keeping them off Ava Labs’ operations.

It was also alleged Roche was filing cases with the aim of gaining access to sensitive documents from Ava Labs rivals and other crypto industry players. For his role, Roche ostensibly secured 1% of the AVAX supply.

No such underhand tactics

Gün Sirer has hit out at all these allegations, maintaining that his company does not “engage in or support” such underhanded tactics as claimed by CryptoLeaks. Refuting the allegations made in both the report and the video clips, he noted: 

“Neither I, nor anyone else at Ava Labs ever directed Roche in his selection of cases. We do not receive materials or information from him, and we do not entrust our legal affairs to him.”

How could anyone believe something so ridiculous as the conspiracy theory nonsense on Cryptoleaks? We would never engage in the unlawful, unethical and just plain wrong behavior claimed in these self-serving videos and inflammatory article. Our tech & team speak for themselves.

— Emin Gün Sirer🔺 (@el33th4xor) August 28, 2022

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