# What is #ETH2.0 Staking

By [0xES](https://paragraph.com/@0xes) · 2022-09-11

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     Staking is a way of earning rewards for holding certain cryptocurrencies, for ethereum, you need to stake 32 ETH to be a validator and lock it up a period, and continue to get pledge income.

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*Originally published on [0xES](https://paragraph.com/@0xes/what-is-eth2-0-staking)*