Swiss digital asset company Finrate AG today announced it has sold its staking data platform, Staking Rewards, to institutional crypto infrastructure provider The Tie, marking a strategic shift toward its conference and networking business centered on the Digital Asset Yield Summit (DAYS).
Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
According to the announcement, the divestment allows Finrate to concentrate on expanding DAYS, its institutional conference series and year-round allocator network, while continuing to operate Looping Collective, its tokenized on-chain yield business, independently.
Founded in 2018, Staking Rewards established itself as one of the cryptocurrency industry’s best-known staking and digital asset yield data platforms, attracting more than one million annual users and providing institutional-grade market data across proof-of-stake networks and yield protocols.
Finrate said the decision reflects the industry’s evolution beyond staking into a broader digital asset yield market, arguing that Staking Rewards is better positioned to grow as part of The Tie’s institutional product suite.
“The Tie is the right long-term home for Staking Rewards,” said Mirko Schmiedl, CEO of Finrate AG. “For us, this is about focus. One team, one mission: building the leading private-capital conference and network in digital assets, just as institutional capital moves decisively into digital asset yield.”
The company said existing customers should experience no interruption in service. Members of the Staking Rewards team will join The Tie to continue developing and supporting the platform.
Betting on institutional networking
The sale underscores Finrate’s growing emphasis on institutional networking rather than market data products.
Originally launched as the Staking Summit, the conference series has been rebranded as the Digital Asset Yield Summit to reflect the expanding range of institutional yield strategies beyond traditional staking. According to the company, the conference business became its primary revenue generator by 2025.
The inaugural event under the DAYS brand took place in Miami during Consensus Week in May 2026. Finrate said the conference attracted 375 attendees representing 272 organizations from 25 countries, including institutional allocators and family offices overseeing a combined $2 trillion in assets.
The next edition is scheduled for October 6 at Singapore’s Raffles Hotel during Token2049 Week, where asset manager Bitwise will serve as title partner. Additional events are planned for Zurich and a return to Miami as the company expands its presence across Asia, Europe and North America.
Beyond the conferences themselves, Finrate is positioning DAYS as a membership-based institutional network that facilitates year-round introductions between limited partners, general partners and other participants in the digital asset investment ecosystem. The offering includes curated networking, allocator profiles and deal-flow opportunities between conferences.
Hyperliquid ecosystem remains a priority
Alongside the Singapore summit, Finrate will also host the fourth edition of the Hyperliquid Forum, an invitation-only event focused on institutional participation in digital asset derivatives and the Hyperliquid ecosystem.
The company’s broader strategy also includes Looping Collective, its tokenized yield business built on Hyperliquid. Current products include loopedHYPE (LHYPE) and Wrapped HLP (WHLP), with a Bitcoin-focused product, loopedBTC (LcBTC), planned for future release.
By retaining Looping Collective while divesting its data platform, Finrate appears to be narrowing its business around institutional capital formation and on-chain yield products, while leaving data and analytics to The Tie.