Rocket Pool, the third largest Ethereum liquid staking protocol by commerce worth locked (TVL), has joined forces with Coinbase Ventures. Based on an announcement on Rocket Pool’s discord channel, Coinbase Ventures shall be becoming a member of Rocket Pool’s Oracle DAO (oDAO).

Rocket Pool is ruled by two decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs), with the oDAO tasked with the accountability of working Rocket Pool’s ETH staking nodes and voting on upgrades to Rocket Pool’s sensible contracts. Members of the oDAO are compensated with Rocket Pool’s governance and utility token RPL.

Partnership Tipped to Enhance Rocket Pool

Analysts suppose that the brand new partnership may assist Rocket Pool acquire floor on the present market chief in ETH liquid staking, Lido. Based on DeFi Llama, Lido at present has 4.88 million ETH tokens staked through its platform. That compares to only underneath 360K staked through Rocket Pool.

Coinbase Ventures is the enterprise capital arm of Coinbase, the most important US-based cryptocurrency alternate. Coinbase is itself the second largest supplier of ETH liquid staking companies, with 1.042 million ETH tokens at present wrapped.

That’s why analysts suppose the partnership may assist Rocket Pool topple Lido as the highest ETH liquid staking service. “Coinbase is a family title and having their engineers securing knowledge offers the protocol legitimacy to some establishments,” mentioned pseudonymous Rocket Pool neighborhood advocate Jasper. “Additional, the entire ecosystem is getting a lift”, he added.

It’s price noting that, in accordance with DeFi Llama, Lido nonetheless affords essentially the most enticing ETH staking yield of 5.0% versus Rocket Pool’s 4.43%. Until Rocket Pool can shut this hole in yield, they might have a tricky time closing the hole in TVL.

That won’t matter to crypto traders who take a extra hard-line view on decentralization. Rocket Pool is considered by many within the crypto house as essentially the most decentralized supplier of ETH liquid staking companies, owing to its decentralized governance construction.

In wake of the partnership, with the latest collapse of FTX the newest reminder of the dangers of crypto centralization, and with the upcoming Ethereum Shanghai improve in March anticipated to permit staked ETH withdrawals for the primary time, Rocket Pool is tipped to carry out properly within the coming months.

However some members of the Rocket Pool neighborhood expressed concern about how the affect of a distinguished centralized crypto entity (Coinbase) would have an effect on the oDAO’s governance.

RPL Surges to Multi-month Highs

RPL, Rocket Pool’s utility and governance token, has been rallying in latest classes. RPL was final altering fingers just below $32 per token, with month-to-month beneficial properties at present round 65%. Merchants are eyeing a possible check of pre-Ethereum merge highs close to $44 within the coming weeks.

The information of the partnership with Coinbase Ventures has clearly given costs a lift, whereas the aforementioned upcoming Ethereum improve that may unlock staked ETH withdrawals on the finish of Q1 can also be giving costs a lift.

If the broader cryptocurrency markets rally continues on bets that easing US inflationary pressures and slowing progress will allow to US Federal Reserve to chop rates of interest later this 12 months, then RPL will doubtless proceed its latest path greater.

RPL’s technical outlook is definitely trying good. The cryptocurrency stays in an aggressive uptrend because the begin of the 12 months and lately loved a “golden cross”. That is the place the 50-Day Shifting Common crosses above the 200DMA, an indicator some merchants see as bullish.