Interactive Brokers puts Ethereum staking in the same portal as clients' stocks, options and futures

The prices IBKR has published for crypto attach to getting in. A $10,000 purchase at the 0.12% to 0.18% commission costs $12 to $18, so the $1.75 minimum never binds, and the published pricing excludes added spreads and markups ^[6][14]. Funding the account with USDC costs more than the commission: IBKR charged no deposit fee, but Zerohash applied a 0.30% conversion fee with a $1 minimum, or $30 on $10,000 ^[10][15].

Where IBKR's own economics sit in staking is our inference. A share of rewards taken before crediting would not appear as a line item the way a commission does, and rewards arrive as additional staked cryptocurrency, so the split would be invisible in the balance ^[7]. The counter-reading is that IBKR takes nothing and treats staking as a reason to keep Ether on the platform, which fits what chief executive Milan Galik said: "We want clients to earn more from the assets they hold" ^[8][9]. A published fee schedule showing a zero share would settle it for that reading, and a nonzero share would settle it for ours.

Zerohash is a recurring name in this build. It processed USDC deposits from January, converting them to dollars before crediting brokerage accounts ^[10]. In March it was one of two providers, with Paxos, holding the accounts for transferred wallet assets ^[11]. In July it supplied nine of the tokens added to the platform, against three through Paxos ^[12]. Staking is the fourth function it performs ^[3][13]. We think IBKR is assembling its crypto offering from provider parts and putting its own effort into the client-facing portal, an inference drawn only from who is named in each announcement.

Eligibility is narrower than the 5 million clients IBKR says it serves worldwide ^[17]. Staking starts with eligible Interactive Brokers LLC clients ^[2]. Earlier launches split by entity. The March wallet-transfer feature covered Interactive Brokers LLC and Interactive Brokers U.K. Limited ^[11], and in July bidirectional stablecoin funding was unavailable to clients of the U.K. and Ireland entities, with availability depending on the affiliate and the customer's country of residence ^[12]. We'd expect staking to reach other entities one at a time on the same pattern.