Introducing staking on Arkis

Today we are announcing a partnership with P2P.org to bring staking to the Arkis platform. Our clients can now stake supported assets through P2P and post the staked position as collateral against trades held in the same Arkis account.

The staked position and the positions held against it sit under one credit and risk framework, across the venues a client trades through Arkis. Margin is calculated against the aggregate risk of the account rather than venue by venue, and clients can borrow against staked collateral the way they borrow against other collateral assets on the platform.

The trades that use staked collateral are live in Arkis Alpha, under Carry Trades. Clients select the staked asset they hold, and Alpha surfaces the strategies where it can be posted as collateral, with the full economics of each one priced before capital is committed.

For example, a client can stake NEAR through P2P.org to collect a 6.8% staking yield, then short NEAR on Hyperliquid. Arkis’s margin engine accepts the staked NEAR as collateral and cross-margins it against the short position, generating a 27% leveraged APY on the combined trade.

"Collateral is only as good as the operator standing behind it. Staking is not a passive line item on a balance sheet once it can be borrowed against, so the same operational discipline we bring to validating has to hold up under Arkis's credit and risk framework. That is the standard we built this collaboration to meet."

Artemiy Parshakov, VP of Strategic Solutions, P2P.org

"A growing share of institutional books sits in assets that earn yield, and credit providers have been slow to treat those positions as part of the portfolio they margin. Staking on Arkis means a client's staked assets are margined alongside everything else they hold with us. We selected P2P.org as a partner because a staked position is only worth lending against if the operator behind it can be underwritten as carefully as the asset itself, and P2P.org has run institutional staking since 2018 with a best-in-class security record."

Oleksandr Proskurin, CPO, Arkis

A slashing event or extended downtime reduces the value of the exact asset backing an open position, so operator quality is treated as a margin input rather than an assumption. P2P runs validators across more than 40 proof of stake networks, with over $10 billion in assets secured, no slashing incidents, SOC 2 Type II attestation and more than 190 institutional clients.

Staking is available to Arkis clients today. Funds not yet trading with Arkis can reach the team at operations@arkis.xyz.