Chorus One Teams with Ledger: Self-Custodial ETH & SOL Staking Just Got Serious
Forget middlemen—staking just cut out the biggest risk.
Chorus One, a heavyweight in institutional-grade validation, just locked arms with hardware wallet titan Ledger. The partnership slashes the traditional staking dilemma: earn yield or keep your keys. Now you get both.
How It Works: Your Keys, Your Yield
The integration plugs Chorus One's non-custodial staking protocol directly into Ledger Live. Users stake Ethereum (ETH) and Solana (SOL) directly from their cold storage. The assets never leave the user's self-custody. Rewards flow back to the same secure wallet—bypassing centralized exchanges and third-party custodians entirely.
Why This Shakes the Table
This isn't another DeFi wrapper or liquid staking token. It's bare-metal infrastructure. Ledger provides the fortress; Chorus One runs the validation nodes. The model targets the security-conscious—from retail whales to regulated entities—who've watched staking services collapse and thought, 'not with my coins.'
The Finance Jab
It's a direct shot at the 'trust us' banking model that still dominates traditional finance—where your assets become someone else's balance sheet liability. Here, your stake isn't a loan; it's a direct network command.
The Bottom Line
Yield meets sovereignty. As regulatory fog thickens around centralized staking, this partnership bets big on a simple truth: in crypto, the safest hands are your own.
Institutions can now stake ETH, SOL, DOT & XTZ directly through their self-custody platform, using Chorus One validator infrastructure.
Hardware-backed key management
Audit-ready reporting
Seamless staking & reward management pic.twitter.com/xwNMoTQ80W
— Chorus One (@ChorusOne) January 20, 2026
Per the announcement, Ledger’s hardware and governance controls protect the private keys. At the same time, Chorus One backs the institutional-grade validator performance. It says it provides institutional validator infrastructure and research-driven staking operations.
Other key points of the collaboration include multi-authorisation and configurable governance workflows, as well as reporting and auditability for compliance and treasury management.
“Institutions need staking solutions that match their security, compliance, and operational requirements,” says Damien Scanlon, Chief Product Officer at Chorus One. The integration allows the two companies “to deliver a streamlined staking experience that keeps governance firmly in the hands of the client,” he added.
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Sébastien Badault, Executive Vice President at Ledger Enterprise, noted that “companies are adopting digital assets at a rapid pace worldwide.” At the same time, “uncompromising security and governance remain fundamental prerequisites.”
Therefore, integrating Chorus One’s staking infrastructure into the Ledger Enterprise platform makes “it simpler for institutions to earn staking yields,” Badault says.
Speaking of which, many staking-related news stories hit the front pages in the first few days of this year.
Among these,head Vlad Tenev claimed that staking remains one of the most sought-after features among Robinhood users.
Tenev urged the US to be the leader in shaping crypto policy. The staking feature is still not available to customers in four US states “due to the current gridlock,” he said. “Stock Tokens are available to our customers in the EU, but not in our home market,” Tenev wrote.
Staking is one of the most requested features on @RobinhoodApp, but it’s still unavailable to customers in four U.S. states due to the current gridlock. Stock Tokens are available to our customers in the EU, but not in our home market.
It's time for the US to lead on crypto…
Moreover,started seeing results of its decision to fully commit to ETH and place its entire crypto treasury into staking. The company reported more than $33 million in passive income generated from ETH staking over the past seven months.
Also,recently added nearly 100,000 ETH, valued at about $344.4 million, lifting its holdings to 908,192 ETH, worth $2.95 billion. The additional staking came hours after the leading ETH accumulator reported staking 19,200 ETH, worth $60.85 million.
Bitmine (@BitMNR) has further staked 109,504 $ETH, worth $344.44M
In total, they have staked 908,192 $ETH, valued at $2.95Bhttps://t.co/1vbYSuGDkR https://t.co/XRS6pEPUkJ pic.twitter.com/5wLn0GrtTh
Meanwhile, Chorus One operates infrastructure for over forty PoS networks, including,,, and.
As for Ledger, it announced its Ledger Nano Gen5 last year. It is now weighing a US listing and is preparing to raise capital.
“Money is in New York today for crypto, it’s nowhere else in the world, certainly not in Europe,” said chief executive Pascal Gauthier.
Early in January, hackers exploited vulnerabilities in Ledger’s Global‑e payment processor, gaining access to customer names and contact information. Wallets and private keys were unaffected, the company said.
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