TL;DR
- The Tie has acquired Stakin, a non-custodial staking provider with over $1B in delegated assets.
- The deal allows The Tie to bundle its market intelligence platform with direct staking infrastructure for institutional clients.
- The integration streamlines workflows, offering unified data, compliance, and validator performance tracking.
The Tie has acquired Stakin, a non-custodial staking provider with over US$1 billion in assets under delegation, marking the company’s first acquisition and a formal push into infrastructure for institutional clients.
The Tie financed the deal with cash and equity from its balance sheet and operating profits. Executives did not disclose price terms. The firm raised US$9 million in 2022 at a US$100 million post-money valuation and reports profitability since inception. Operations currently serve roughly 500 institutions with a team of about 75 employees.
1/ Announcement: The Tie has acquired Stakin.
Stakin brings $1.5B+ assets under delegation, a 7-year track record, and institutional-grade staking across 40+ networks. pic.twitter.com/lmeFmcc8qs
— The Tie (@TheTieIO) January 5, 2026
The Tie will add staking as a new product line while preserving Stakin’s day-to-day operations. The Estonia-based team of 15 joins in full, and validator infrastructure across 40+ networks continues without change.
Commercially, The Tie will bundle staking inside its broader platform, pairing market intelligence from The Tie Terminal with direct allocation and performance tracking. Asset managers gain a single workflow that links network data, compliance checks, and validator selection to resulting yields, cutting vendor sprawl and review cycles.
Leadership frames the plan around a clear division of roles
The Tie Terminal remains the hub for research, alerts, and workflow, while Stakin supplies validator operations under a non-custodial model. The Tie does not offer custody or an order and execution management system, avoiding overlap with providers that specialize in safekeeping or trading pipes. The pitch targets desks that want consolidated data, authenticated communication, and infrastructure access under one account.
Product changes extend beyond a new revenue line
By joining data, workflow, and staking under a single umbrella, The Tie can route diligence artifacts to the exact control points that investment committees require: validator uptime, slashing records, jurisdiction, and service-level history.
Integration also supports cleaner reporting for risk, fee disclosure, and after-cost yield, a pain point for allocators that previously stitched together PDFs, dashboards, and ad hoc exports.
Stakin brings operational breadth that matters to managers with multi-chain mandates. Validator coverage spans large base layers and newer networks, and the firm maintains a non-custodial stance, leaving keys and custody choices with clients.
Road-mapping points to broader Web3 infrastructure over time. Executives cite potential services such as decentralized bridging, oracles, RPC endpoints, and permissioned-chain infrastructure. A modular approach would let institutions add components as mandates evolve, while The Tie uses existing distribution to bring new services to established contacts inside funds, banks, and trading firms.
