Which staking platforms actually stay up
Best measured: Coinbase — 10/10 on the 38% we could measure.
Runner-up: Kraken — 10/10.
Last collection 2026-08-25: probed 252 services, measured 233, over a 90-day window. Collected by our own script, not by hand — the numbers are reproducible, and reproducibly boring.
The ranking
| # | Service | Score | TVL | Audits | Age | Latency | Status feed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Coinbase | 1038% | — | — | 14.7y | 165 ms | statuspage |
| 2 | Kraken | 1038% | — | — | 15.7y | 102 ms | statuspage |
| 3 | P2P.org | 1052% | — | — | 8.7y | 143 ms | statuspage |
| 4 | Blockdaemon | 1052% | — | — | 9.7y | 47 ms | statuspage |
| 5 | Kiln | 9.7352% | — | — | 5.6y | 266 ms | statuspage |
| 6 | Figment | 9.0852% | — | — | 8.7y | 169 ms | instatus |
| 7 | Rocket Pool | 8.9584% | $1.31B | 2 | 4.8y | 64 ms | blocked |
| 8 | Everstake | 8.4652% | — | — | 8.7y | 90 ms | unknown |
| 9 | Binance | 7.8938% | — | — | 9.7y | 348 ms | unknown |
| 10 | Stakefish | 7.5452% | — | — | 8.7y | 85 ms | none |
| 11 | Chorus One | 7.5452% | — | — | 8.7y | 50 ms | none |
| 12 | Lido | 7.3678% | $23.84B | 2 | — | 628 ms | none |
| 13 | Ether.fi | 6.76100% | $4.37B | 0 | 3.5y | 143 ms | none |
| 14 | Marinade | 6.7478% | $239.3M | 2 | — | 78 ms | none |
| 15 | Jito | 5.7330% | — | — | — | 73 ms | none |
Every figure carries the date it was taken, on the service’s card below, linked to its open source. Score is out of what we could measure — the % next to it is coverage.
How we scored this
These weights belong to this category alone. Signature measurement here: TVL / value staked (DefiLlama) + uptime — Value staked and audits matter, alongside the uptime that protects rewards.
Total value locked (DeFi), on-chain reserves (exchanges) or circulating market cap (stablecoins), from DefiLlama. Capita…
Number of published security audits with links, from DefiLlama's audit field. Not a guarantee — audited protocols still …
Time the service has been live and continuously operating, from DefiLlama's listing date or the documented launch. Survi…
Median time to first byte from a public endpoint, our own probe, slowest sample discarded, single location. Scored withi…
Whether a public, machine-readable status page exists (statuspage / incident.io / instatus). A service you can audit fro…
Latency in this category is timed at the live interface for every service, so the comparison is like-for-like. We never compare latency across categories — a DEX interface and an exchange API are not the same thing, and pretending otherwise would just reward whoever we happened to probe more cheaply.
The brief also defines FEES and UX (0%, 0%). We don’t publish them: we can’t measure them ourselves, and an estimate dressed as a measurement is worse than a gap. Full methodology
The services
Coinbase
No public on-chain value to measure — not a smart-contract service, or not tracked by DefiLlama.
Live 14.7 yr (since founding (2012), public record). Most failures happen young, so time survived is real signal.
No audit data — no smart-contract surface to audit, or none published to DefiLlama.
Publishes a machine-readable incident archive (statuspage) — its whole record can be checked by anyone, including against us.
Measured 165 ms, but at a different surface from the rest of this category — not comparable, so shown as context, not scored.
The provider’s feed returns its 50 most recent incidents and no more, which here reaches back 48 days. The remaining 42 are blank because we cannot see them — not because nothing happened.
Over the 48 days the feed covers. Not scored — logging granularity varies between services.
Timed at a different surface from the rest of this category, so not a fair comparison — not scored.
Kraken
No public on-chain value to measure — not a smart-contract service, or not tracked by DefiLlama.
Live 15.7 yr (since founding (2011), public record). Most failures happen young, so time survived is real signal.
No audit data — no smart-contract surface to audit, or none published to DefiLlama.
Publishes a machine-readable incident archive (statuspage) — its whole record can be checked by anyone, including against us.
Measured 102 ms, but at a different surface from the rest of this category — not comparable, so shown as context, not scored.
Over the 90 days the feed covers. Not scored — logging granularity varies between services.
Timed at a different surface from the rest of this category, so not a fair comparison — not scored.
P2P.org
No public on-chain value to measure — not a smart-contract service, or not tracked by DefiLlama.
Live 8.7 yr (since founding (2018), public record). Most failures happen young, so time survived is real signal.
No audit data — no smart-contract surface to audit, or none published to DefiLlama.
Publishes a machine-readable incident archive (statuspage) — its whole record can be checked by anyone, including against us.
Median 143 ms to first byte from the live interface, our own probe, slowest sample discarded, single location. Compared only within this category.
Over the 90 days the feed covers. Not scored — logging granularity varies between services.
No public on-chain value to measure — not a smart-contract service, or not tracked by DefiLlama.
Live 9.7 yr (since founding (2017), public record). Most failures happen young, so time survived is real signal.
No audit data — no smart-contract surface to audit, or none published to DefiLlama.
Publishes a machine-readable incident archive (statuspage) — its whole record can be checked by anyone, including against us.
Median 47 ms to first byte from the live interface, our own probe, slowest sample discarded, single location. Compared only within this category.
Over the 90 days the feed covers. Not scored — logging granularity varies between services.
Kiln
No public on-chain value to measure — not a smart-contract service, or not tracked by DefiLlama.
Live 5.6 yr (since founding (2021), public record). Most failures happen young, so time survived is real signal.
No audit data — no smart-contract surface to audit, or none published to DefiLlama.
Publishes a machine-readable incident archive (statuspage) — its whole record can be checked by anyone, including against us.
Median 266 ms to first byte from the live interface, our own probe, slowest sample discarded, single location. Compared only within this category.
Over the 90 days the feed covers. Not scored — logging granularity varies between services.
Figment
No public on-chain value to measure — not a smart-contract service, or not tracked by DefiLlama.
Live 8.7 yr (since founding (2018), public record). Most failures happen young, so time survived is real signal.
No audit data — no smart-contract surface to audit, or none published to DefiLlama.
Publishes a live machine-readable status, but no incident archive: you can see it is down now, not how often it broke before.
Median 169 ms to first byte from the live interface, our own probe, slowest sample discarded, single location. Compared only within this category.
Status transparency: Publishes a live machine-readable status, but no incident archive: you can see it is down now, not how often it broke before.
$1.31B in value locked (DefiLlama). Capital is the market voting with its money — scored on a log scale, so the jump from $10M to $100M counts for more than $10B to $20B.
Live 4.8 yr (time since DefiLlama listing (a floor on true age)). Most failures happen young, so time survived is real signal.
2 published audits with links (DefiLlama) — read the findings yourself. Audits reduce risk, they do not remove it.
Their status host turned our probe away — the page exists and we could not read it, so n/a rather than a mark against them.
Median 64 ms to first byte from the live interface, our own probe, slowest sample discarded, single location. Compared only within this category.
Security audits: 2 published audits with links (DefiLlama) — read the findings yourself. Audits reduce risk, they do not remove it.
No public on-chain value to measure — not a smart-contract service, or not tracked by DefiLlama.
Live 8.7 yr (since founding (2018), public record). Most failures happen young, so time survived is real signal.
No audit data — no smart-contract surface to audit, or none published to DefiLlama.
A status page exists but publishes no feed we could parse — readable, not auditable. Part of that may be our blind spot (we read three platforms).
Median 90 ms to first byte from the live interface, our own probe, slowest sample discarded, single location. Compared only within this category.
Status transparency: A status page exists but publishes no feed we could parse — readable, not auditable. Part of that may be our blind spot (we read three platforms).
Binance
No public on-chain value to measure — not a smart-contract service, or not tracked by DefiLlama.
Live 9.7 yr (since founding (2017), public record). Most failures happen young, so time survived is real signal.
No audit data — no smart-contract surface to audit, or none published to DefiLlama.
A status page exists but publishes no feed we could parse — readable, not auditable. Part of that may be our blind spot (we read three platforms).
Measured 348 ms, but at a different surface from the rest of this category — not comparable, so shown as context, not scored.
Timed at a different surface from the rest of this category, so not a fair comparison — not scored.
Status transparency: A status page exists but publishes no feed we could parse — readable, not auditable. Part of that may be our blind spot (we read three platforms).
Stakefish
No public on-chain value to measure — not a smart-contract service, or not tracked by DefiLlama.
Live 8.7 yr (since founding (2018), public record). Most failures happen young, so time survived is real signal.
No audit data — no smart-contract surface to audit, or none published to DefiLlama.
No public status page found. Nothing about its reliability can be verified from outside — including by us.
Median 85 ms to first byte from the live interface, our own probe, slowest sample discarded, single location. Compared only within this category.
Status transparency: No public status page found. Nothing about its reliability can be verified from outside — including by us.
Anyone who needs to know when it breaks: no status feed, so you find out it is down by discovering it yourself.
Chorus One
No public on-chain value to measure — not a smart-contract service, or not tracked by DefiLlama.
Live 8.7 yr (since founding (2018), public record). Most failures happen young, so time survived is real signal.
No audit data — no smart-contract surface to audit, or none published to DefiLlama.
No public status page found. Nothing about its reliability can be verified from outside — including by us.
Median 50 ms to first byte from the live interface, our own probe, slowest sample discarded, single location. Compared only within this category.
Status transparency: No public status page found. Nothing about its reliability can be verified from outside — including by us.
Anyone who needs to know when it breaks: no status feed, so you find out it is down by discovering it yourself.
Lido
$23.84B in value locked (DefiLlama). Capital is the market voting with its money — scored on a log scale, so the jump from $10M to $100M counts for more than $10B to $20B.
No documented launch or listing date to measure age from.
2 published audits with links (DefiLlama) — read the findings yourself. Audits reduce risk, they do not remove it.
No public status page found. Nothing about its reliability can be verified from outside — including by us.
Median 628 ms to first byte from the live interface, our own probe, slowest sample discarded, single location. Compared only within this category.
Status transparency: No public status page found. Nothing about its reliability can be verified from outside — including by us.
Anyone who needs to know when it breaks: no status feed, so you find out it is down by discovering it yourself.
Ether.fi
$4.37B in value locked (DefiLlama). Capital is the market voting with its money — scored on a log scale, so the jump from $10M to $100M counts for more than $10B to $20B.
Live 3.5 yr (time since DefiLlama listing (a floor on true age)). Most failures happen young, so time survived is real signal.
No published audits on DefiLlama. Not proof of insecurity, but an unaudited contract holding funds is a red flag.
No public status page found. Nothing about its reliability can be verified from outside — including by us.
Median 143 ms to first byte from the live interface, our own probe, slowest sample discarded, single location. Compared only within this category.
Security audits: No published audits on DefiLlama. Not proof of insecurity, but an unaudited contract holding funds is a red flag.
Anyone putting size into it: it holds funds in smart contracts with no published audit. Fine to experiment with, not to trust with a position you cannot afford to lose.
Marinade
$239.3M in value locked (DefiLlama). Capital is the market voting with its money — scored on a log scale, so the jump from $10M to $100M counts for more than $10B to $20B.
No documented launch or listing date to measure age from.
2 published audits with links (DefiLlama) — read the findings yourself. Audits reduce risk, they do not remove it.
No public status page found. Nothing about its reliability can be verified from outside — including by us.
Median 78 ms to first byte from the live interface, our own probe, slowest sample discarded, single location. Compared only within this category.
Status transparency: No public status page found. Nothing about its reliability can be verified from outside — including by us.
Anyone who needs to know when it breaks: no status feed, so you find out it is down by discovering it yourself.
Jito
No public on-chain value to measure — not a smart-contract service, or not tracked by DefiLlama.
No documented launch or listing date to measure age from.
No audit data — no smart-contract surface to audit, or none published to DefiLlama.
No public status page found. Nothing about its reliability can be verified from outside — including by us.
Median 73 ms to first byte from the live interface, our own probe, slowest sample discarded, single location. Compared only within this category.
Status transparency: No public status page found. Nothing about its reliability can be verified from outside — including by us.
Anyone who needs to know when it breaks: no status feed, so you find out it is down by discovering it yourself.
Who we left out, and why
We looked at 15, ranked 15.
Head to head
Questions
Why isn’t the biggest name at the top?+
Because we rank on whether a service works and can be checked, not on how big it is. Size is not a criterion here — a large service that publishes no status feed cannot demonstrate its reliability to anyone, and it scores accordingly.
What does "62% measured" mean under a score?+
It is the share of our criteria weight we actually measured for that service. The rest is n/a — we did not measure it, so its weight was redistributed across what we did measure rather than counted as zero. A high score at low coverage is a narrower claim than the same score at high coverage, and we would rather show you that than hide it.
Where do the incident numbers come from?+
From each provider's own status page, which several publish as a machine-readable feed. We compute repair time from their published report and resolution timestamps, and link the source on every figure so you can check it. It is their record — we just do the arithmetic and refuse to round it in their favour.
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