Company Profile · Web3 Infrastructure · Est. 2019
RockX.
The Singapore staking and node network wiring institutions into the proof-of-stake economy - non-custodial, by design.
The Singapore staking and node network wiring institutions into the proof-of-stake economy - non-custodial, by design.
Most people who earn yield on their crypto never see the machinery that makes it possible. Somewhere a validator has to sign a block, a key has to stay secret, and a node has to answer millions of requests without dropping one. RockX built its business on that unglamorous layer - and quietly became one of the largest staking operators to come out of Asia.
Founded in Singapore in 2019 by veterans of the Zilliqa blockchain and the RockMiner mining operation, RockX describes itself plainly: institutional Web3 infrastructure for staking, RPC and validator operations. The company runs more than 13,000 validators and secures over US$1.5 billion in staked assets across Ethereum, Bitcoin, Solana, BNB Chain, Polygon, Avalanche, Cardano and Polkadot.
What sets RockX apart is a single word its CEO keeps returning to: institutionalize. Where much of crypto chased retail speculation, RockX aimed at the trading firms, custodians, exchanges and funds that hold the most assets and can least afford a mistake. That audience does not want a flashy app. It wants uptime, slashing protection, key security and a provider it can name in a compliance review.
The bet has aged well. As token prices swing and narratives rotate, the demand for reliable staking and node access has stayed remarkably constant. RockX sits at exactly that intersection - a B2B supplier whose product is trust, measured in basis points of uptime and the absence of a single slashing event.
"We need to institutionalize. Institutions do need to get into this space, either from a technology or financial perspective." Zhuling Chen, Founder & CEO
RockX is a B2B company. Its customers are the businesses other people trust with their crypto.
Venues that need reliable staking rails and node access to offer yield to their own users.
Firms like Cactus Custody that must earn native yield without ever surrendering client keys.
Institutions - Amber Group among them - staking large ETH and BTC positions.
Teams that consume RockX's AccessNode RPC and data APIs to power their products.
Chains that rely on professional operators to help decentralize and secure their networks.
Firms that need high-throughput, low-latency on-chain data access at scale.
"Asia has a longstanding focus on trading, and liquid staking can enable customers to enjoy native yields from the blockchain while retaining the ability to trade staked tokens." Zhuling Chen, on the Bedrock launch
The problems RockX solves are the ones institutions lose sleep over. Running validators yourself means managing keys, avoiding slashing penalties, patching software at odd hours and keeping uptime near-perfect - a full-time engineering discipline most firms have no desire to own. Handing assets to a custodial staking service solves the operational headache but creates a new one: counterparty risk. RockX's answer is non-custodial infrastructure, where clients keep control of their assets while RockX handles the operations behind them.
Institutional-grade Ethereum validators with slashing protection, hardened key management and high uptime.
Non-custodial Bitcoin yield, including restaking routes built on the Babylon protocol.
Non-custodial staking across Solana, BNB Chain, Polygon, Avalanche, Cardano, Polkadot, Cosmos, IoTeX and more.
RockX runs as an EigenLayer operator/AVS, letting users restake ETH for additional protocol rewards.
On-chain data and RPC with 99.99% uptime, sub-50ms latency, failover routing and MCP support for AI agents.
Turnkey, branded validator and staking infrastructure for exchanges, custodians and wallets.
The multi-asset liquid restaking protocol RockX seeded - issuing liquid tokens governed by the BR token.
Built-in verification for large stakers (32 ETH+) while retaining flexibility for smaller retail participants.
The staking market is crowded - Lido, Figment, Kiln, Blockdaemon and a wave of restaking protocols all compete for the same assets. RockX's edge is not scale for its own sake; it is a lean, security-first operation with an explicitly institutional and Asia-anchored posture, paired with ownership of a DeFi protocol (Bedrock) that most pure infrastructure rivals lack.
"The trust and confidence our investors have placed in us position us to become the leading global staking and data services provider." Zhuling Chen, on the Series A
The business model reinforces that position. RockX earns commissions on assets staked through its validators and charges for enterprise node and RPC access, white-label deployments and dedicated infrastructure. Through Bedrock, it also participates as a node operator and early contributor, aligning its upside with the protocol's BR token economy. It is, in effect, both a supplier to the ecosystem and a participant in it.
RockX's credibility starts with where its people came from. Co-founder Xinshu Dong was CEO and co-founder of Zilliqa, a layer-1 blockchain that pioneered sharding - protocol engineering at the deepest level. Co-founder Alex Lam previously built RockMiner, one of the crypto mining companies that learned, the hard way, how to run hardware reliably at scale. That combination - protocol design plus operational discipline - is exactly what running thousands of validators demands.
Leading the company today is Zhuling Chen, who began his career at management consultancy Roland Berger advising financial institutions across Southeast Asia before moving into crypto. His pitch to institutions is fluent in their language: risk, custody, compliance and yield. It is a rare blend of consulting polish and infrastructure depth, and it shows in how RockX packages a technical product for a boardroom audience.
The team itself is small - roughly 19 people split between Singapore and Shenzhen - which is part of the story. A top-10 global Ethereum validator run by a team you could fit in a conference room is a statement about where the leverage in infrastructure really lies: in engineering and automation, not headcount.
That expertise earned outside validation early. In 2022, Staking Rewards - a leading independent research platform - named RockX a Verified Staking Provider, a designation held by only a handful of firms worldwide and even fewer in Asia. The assessment weighed reliability, security, accountability and liability, the exact criteria an institution applies before wiring in assets.
Founders from Zilliqa and RockMiner start RockX in Singapore as a non-custodial staking-as-a-service platform.
Raises $6M at a $30M valuation led by Amber Group, and is named a Staking Rewards Verified Provider.
Unveils a KYC/AML-compliant institutional liquid staking platform; Amber Group stakes 5,000 ETH via Bedrock.
uniETH becomes an EigenLayer LRT, uniBTC launches with Babylon, and OKX Ventures leads a Bedrock seed round.
Bedrock launches the BR token, partners with Pentabase in Korea, and brings uniBTC/brBTC to Aptos.
"If we look at the success of Bitcoin nowadays, it's in fact driven by institutional acceptance."
Zhuling ChenBedrock, RockX's restaking protocol, weathered a ~$2M uniBTC exploit in late 2024 - and kept shipping.
Fun factA ~19-person team ranks among the top-10 Ethereum validators worldwide.
Fun factFrom blockchain beginnings to institutional innovation - the Smart Economy Podcast interview.
▶ ProductRockX's homepage video on where institutional staking is heading. Explore the live platform.
▶ BlogProduct notes, staking updates and technical write-ups from the RockX team.