Arkis Adds Staking Through P2P.org, With Staked Assets Accepted as Collateral

Staked assets can now sit inside an institution's live margin book, not outside it. 

P2P.org and Arkis have built the integration that lets a staked position back a client's trades on the same terms as any other collateral asset.

TLDR: 

- Arkis clients can now stake supported assets through P2P.org and post the staked position as collateral on Arkis, live today in Arkis Alpha under Carry Trades

- Supported networks at launch include Solana and Avalanche

- The staked position and any trades held against it sit inside one Arkis account under one credit and risk framework, not siloed by venue

The unstaking tax institutions have been paying

Staking and trading have run on separate clocks for institutions using Arkis. A client holding a staked position who wanted to use it to support a trade had one option: unstake first. That meant sitting through the unstaking period and giving up reward accrual for however long it took, just to free up capital that was never actually at risk of being needed elsewhere. The staked asset and the trading book behaved like two accounts, even when they belonged to the same client.

That friction is gone. A staked position held through P2P.org can now be posted directly as collateral on Arkis, with no unstaking step in between.

What actually changed

The staked position and any trades held against it now sit inside one Arkis account, under one credit and risk framework, across every venue the client trades through Arkis. Margin gets calculated against the account's aggregate risk rather than venue by venue, and staked collateral can be borrowed against on the same terms as any other collateral asset on the platform.

It is live today in Arkis Alpha, under Carry Trades. A client picks the staked asset they hold, and Alpha shows which strategies accept it as collateral, with the full economics priced before any capital moves. Solana and Avalanche are supported at launch.

"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

The validator becomes a credit decision

Once a staked asset can be borrowed against, the operator running the validator stops being a background detail. A slashing event or extended downtime does not just cost the client reward accrual; it reduces the value of the exact asset sitting behind an open position. Arkis's risk framework treats that operator quality as a margin input for this reason, not as something assumed away because the asset happens to be staked rather than sitting idle.

"A growing share of institutional books sits in assets that earn protocol rewards, 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 strong security record and no slashing incidents." -Oleksandr Proskurin, CPO and Co-founder, Arkis

That underwriting bar is what P2P.org's track record is meant to clear: validators across more than 40 proof of stake networks, over $10 billion in assets secured, zero slashing incidents, SOC 2 Type II attestation, and more than 190 institutional clients.

P2P.org does not hold or control client assets, and staking rewards remain protocol-generated and variable rather than guaranteed.

Key Takeaway

For institutions holding staked assets and an active trading book on Arkis, staking no longer has to sit outside the margin conversation. The P2P.org and Arkis integration lets a staked position, launched with Solana and Avalanche support, count as collateral inside one unified credit and risk framework, with validator quality treated as a direct input to that framework.

FAQs

What is required to use staked assets as collateral on Arkis? A client stakes a supported asset through P2P.org and posts the resulting staked position as collateral inside their Arkis account. Supported networks at launch include Solana and Avalanche.

How is margin calculated when staked assets are used as collateral? Arkis calculates margin against the aggregate risk of the client's whole account, across every venue the client trades through Arkis, rather than calculating margin separately per venue or position.

Does using a staked asset as collateral require unstaking it first? No. The staked position itself, held through P2P.org, can be posted as collateral without unstaking, which avoids the unstaking delay and the reward accrual a client would otherwise give up.

What happens to margin if a validator experiences downtime or a slashing event? Validator uptime and slashing history are treated as inputs to Arkis's risk framework for the collateral value of a staked position, which is why the choice of staking infrastructure provider affects a client's margin position directly, not only reward accrual.

Who should reach out to use this integration? Arkis clients can access staking through P2P.org today. Funds not yet trading with Arkis can reach the Arkis team at [email protected].

About Arkis

Arkis is an institutional prime broker that margins CeFi, DeFi, and TradFi positions as one portfolio, giving funds unified credit, collateral, and risk management across the venues they trade. Backed by Spark, Arkis has deployed over $250M in institutional credit with zero bad debt since 2022.Staking is available to Arkis clients today

Disclaimer

This material is provided for informational purposes only and does not constitute investment, financial, legal, or tax advice. P2P.org accepts no liability for any actions taken based on it. Latency and performance figures referenced are estimates based on internal benchmarks and may vary depending on network conditions, geography, and client infrastructure. Past performance is not indicative of future results.