The bank claims to be the first to offer regulated staking for Polygon’s native token (POL), with rewards of up to 15%.
By Ian Allison, AI Boost|Edited by Omkar Godbole
Oct 9, 2025, 7:19 a.m.
- AMINA Bank offers the first regulated institutional staking for Polygon’s POL token.
- Partnership with Polygon Foundation boosts staking rewards to as high as 15%.
- Move signals growing institutional participation in blockchain network security.
Swiss-regulated crypto bank AMINA has become the first bank worldwide to offer institutional clients regulated staking access to POL, the native token that powers the Polygon blockchain.
The launch allows qualified participants, including asset managers and corporate treasuries, to earn staking rewards while supporting network security in compliance with financial regulations.
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As part of this collaboration, AMINA clients can receive up to 15% in staking rewards. This rate combines AMINA’s base yield with an additional incentive from the foundation.
The move expands the bank’s existing POL custody and trading services, giving institutions a compliant path to participate in blockchain infrastructure relied on by firms like BlackRock, JPMorgan and Franklin Templeton for their tokenization efforts.
Myles Harrison, AMINA’s chief product officer, said the service bridges traditional finance with “the networks that matter.”
AMINA Bank (previously known as SEBA Bank) holds a license from the Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority (“FINMA”), and also has nods to offer crypto services from regulators in Abu Dhabi and Hong Kong.
Polygon Labs CEO Marc Boiron called the development a sign that institutions “aren’t just buying tokens anymore — they want to participate.”
Polygon, an Ethereum overlay blockchain which processes transactions for less than a cent and settles them in under five seconds, has become one of the main networks for on-chain finance. It now hosts over $1 billion in tokenized real-world assets and nearly $3 billion in stablecoin value. The POL token had a market cap of $2.5 billion at press time.
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