Frankfurt, Germany, Sept. 05, 2025 — , a German-based DeFi infrastructure provider, is drawing attention to the concealed charges of custodial staking platforms, which silently diminish returns, compromise governance, and exert sustained downward pressure on Solana’s price.
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For numerous family offices and institutional investors, staking is promoted as a straightforward, “risk-free yield” opportunity. While native Solana staking typically yields between 8.25–10%, most custodial platforms offer significantly less. This difference is retained by the platforms and immediately converted to USD on the open market—a constant 24/7 sell volume that puts pressure on SOL’s price.
However, yield erosion represents only a segment of the issue. Custodial platforms also centralize network governance authority. Delegators who stake through entities such as exchanges unknowingly transfer their voting rights. In 2024, Solana’s Proposal 228, which aimed to decrease inflation to 0% (a substantial price-supportive modification), failed to achieve the necessary two-thirds supermajority, receiving only about 61% approval. While various factors influenced the result, concerns persist that votes controlled by exchanges may have contributed to this shortfall. In essence, delegators who stake via custodians or exchanges risk having their governance power utilized in ways that may not align with their own long-term interests.
“Family offices anticipate staking to generate predictable returns on their token holdings,” stated Christian Labetzsch, Co-Founder of Blocksize. “However, the reality is that exchanges, for example, can quietly diminish returns and wield governance power against delegators’ long-term interests. This highlights why transparency, non-custodial control, high validator performance, and regulated operations are crucial for delegators.”
The Lack of Transparency in Staking
While Annual Percentage Yield (APY) remains the primary marketing appeal, performance alone no longer serves as a distinguishing factor. Professional investors are increasingly concerned about:
- Concealed yield losses through custodial fees and the selling of rewards.
- Slashing and operational risks from anonymous or non-transparent validators.
- Governance capture that stifles ecosystem-beneficial upgrades.
- Inflation and volatility eroding actual returns.
- Unidentified offshore wallet operators with no accountability (“If you don’t hold the keys, you don’t own the coins”).
Blocksize addresses these issues with non-custodial, institutional-grade staking services that return control to delegators. In contrast to anonymous offshore validators, Blocksize openly links its wallet addresses to its identity and operates under German legal frameworks, ensuring transparency and accountability. Users maintain their governance entitlements, gain clear insight into validator performance, and support operators aligned with the ecosystem’s interests.
Institutional-Grade Standards for DeFi
Blocksize manages its infrastructure within Germany’s rigorous frameworks, delivering staking solutions engineered to meet banking-level standards, yet remaining accessible to non-bank clients. These services encompass:
- Adjustable staking fees and Service Level Agreements (SLAs) tailored for family offices and businesses.
- Geographically redundant, 24/7 monitored infrastructure with automated failover capabilities.
- Real-time transparency, with validator performance, governance activity, and node status openly published.
To date, Blocksize has supported over 10 protocols, executed 5 million on-chain transactions, and provides dependable on-chain market data for more than 9,000 pairs to foster a permissionless and equitable DeFi ecosystem.
About Blocksize
Blocksize is a Frankfurt-based DeFi infrastructure provider specializing in non-custodial staking, oracle data, and validator operations. With over seven years of experience and a proven compliance framework, Blocksize integrates technical robustness with regulatory accountability. The company actively stakes its own capital, participates in protocol governance, and contributes open-source tools to bolster the broader blockchain ecosystem — making DeFi suitable for traditional finance.
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CONTACT: Christian L. info (at) blocksize-capital.com
