Crypto Insights Group Integrates Quatrefoil Staking Rates to Power Crypto-Native Benchmarking
Executive Summary
Crypto Insights Group has integrated Ethereum and Solana staking rates from Quatrefoil Data Services (QDS) into the platform’s performance and benchmarking framework.
The goal is to introduce consistent, crypto-native reference rates that help contextualize returns, improve comparability across strategies, and better align performance evaluation with how capital is deployed within digital asset ecosystems.
Ethereum and Solana represent the first phase of this framework, with additional benchmarks expected over time.
“As allocators spend more time evaluating crypto-denominated strategies, having a consistent reference rate becomes increasingly important. Integrating CSR-ETH (“caesar ETH”) and CSR-SOL (“caesar SOL”) staking rates from Quartrefoil allows us to provide clearer context around performance and helps align how returns are evaluated across the platform.”
-Andy Martinez, CFA
CEO, Crypto Insights Group
“Staking is a foundational source of yield in proof-of-stake networks such as Ethereum and Solana. Our goal with CSR-ETH and related benchmarks is to provide a transparent and consistent measure of that yield. Working with Crypto Insights Group brings these benchmarks directly into how institutional allocators analyze and compare strategies.”
-Finbarr Hutcheson
CEO, Quatrefoil Data Services
Introduction
As digital asset strategies continue to mature, allocators are placing greater emphasis on how performance is measured, compared, and understood across different structures and mandates.
In traditional markets, the risk-free rate serves as a foundational input into performance evaluation. It informs how allocators assess excess returns, evaluate risk-adjusted performance, and determine capital allocation decisions.
In digital assets, this reference point had not been consistently defined. As a result, performance metrics were often presented without a clear baseline, which made comparisons across strategies more difficult.
Crypto Insights Group’s integration with QDS is designed to address this gap by introducing Ethereum and Solana staking rates as consistent reference points within the platform.
Quatrefoil: Defining Crypto-Native Staking Benchmarks
How is Quatrefoil defining staking rates for Ethereum and Solana?
Quatrefoil Data Services
Quatrefoil produces staking rate benchmarks designed to measure the average annualized yield earned by participants securing proof-of-stake networks.
For Ethereum, the Composite Ether Staking Rate (CESR) measures validator-level returns across the network. It incorporates both consensus rewards earned through validation and priority transaction fees paid to validators.
For Solana, a similar framework is applied to capture staking yield across validators, truly reflecting the underlying economics of the network.
These rates are calculated using on-chain data and are designed to reflect network-wide participation rather than a subset of operators.
What makes these staking rate methodologies robust and suitable as benchmarks?
Quatrefoil
The methodologies are designed to provide transparent and consistent measures of staking yield across networks.
Key elements include:
- Universal validator coverage across each network
- Daily observation periods based on on-chain data
- Time-weighted balances that account for changes in stake
- Governance oversight through a dedicated rates committee
For Ethereum specifically, CESR aggregates rewards and priority fees across all eligible validators and annualizes the result using a standardized framework.
This approach is designed to ensure that the rate reflects actual network conditions while maintaining consistency over time.
Why is Quatrefoil focused on building staking rate benchmarks?
Quatrefoil
As digital asset markets mature, there is increasing demand for resilient, standardized reference rates that accurately reflect how value is generated within blockchain networks.
Staking is a core source of yield in proof-of-stake systems such as Ethereum and Solana. Establishing consistent benchmarks allows market participants to better understand that baseline yield across time.
The goal is to support more structured financial frameworks by providing reliable and transparent data that can be used across investment analysis, benchmarking, and reporting and ultimately integrated into term products.
Crypto Insights Group: Applying Staking Rates in Practice
Why is Crypto Insights Group integrating staking rates into the platform?
Crypto Insights Group
In traditional markets, a reference rate is a core input into how performance is evaluated. In digital assets, that baseline has not always been consistently applied.
Integrating Ethereum and Solana staking rates introduces a common reference point that helps improve how returns are contextualized across strategies.
This allows allocators and managers to evaluate performance using a framework that is aligned with how capital is actually deployed within these ecosystems.
How are these rates being used within CIG?
Crypto Insights Group
Ethereum and Solana staking rates are being incorporated directly into the platform’s analytics and benchmarking tools.
This includes:
- Incorporating staking rates into risk-adjusted metrics such as Sharpe ratios
- Providing context for excess returns relative to staking
- Supporting more consistent comparisons across strategies
- Aligning performance evaluation with crypto-native opportunity costs
The focus is on improving transparency and comparability across strategies without changing how those strategies are constructed.
How does this benefit allocators and fund managers?
Crypto Insights Group
For allocators, this provides a clearer baseline for understanding how strategies perform relative to a passive alternative within the same ecosystem.
For managers, it offers a consistent way to present performance within a broader market context, helping to distinguish between returns driven by asset exposure and those generated through active management.
More broadly, this supports a more standardized approach to evaluating crypto-denominated strategies as the market continues to mature.
Closing
This integration represents an initial step toward building a more consistent framework for evaluating digital asset strategies.
By incorporating Ethereum and Solana staking rates from Quatrefoil, Crypto Insights Group is introducing a clearer reference point for how performance is measured across crypto-native strategies.
As the market continues to evolve, the focus remains on improving transparency, consistency, and alignment between allocators and managers across the investment process. to learn more.
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