Staking: the game-changer for Ethereum ETFs

22.04.2025
Staking: the game-changer for Ethereum ETFs
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In an opinion piece, Scroll co-founder Sandy Peng suggests that staking integration could turbocharge Ethereum ETFs, which have seen slower adoption than their Bitcoin counterparts.

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Sandy Peng

Sandy Peng is Co-Founder of Scroll, a zkEVM-based Layer 2 blockchain designed to scale Ethereum, where she has focused on non-technical areas including business building and scaling since co-founding the company in January 2021. Scroll operates on a zk rollup architecture capable of scaling to up to 10,000 TPS, with bytecode-level EVM compatibility and integrations with services including AWS and Chainlink. Prior to Scroll, she was a Partner at Fission Capital from August 2016 to January 2021, where she worked in Web3 project investment. Before moving into venture capital, she served as a Management Associate at the Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission from 2010 to 2013. Earlier in her career, she was CEO of Ucan Group, a mobile games company operating under Hong Kong-listed Culturecom Limited, where she also led the launch of a Bitcoin mobile games platform called UcanBit.

Peng holds a Bachelor of Arts in Social and Political Sciences from the University of Cambridge (2005–2008) and an MSc in Law, Anthropology and Society from the London School of Economics and Political Science (2009–2010). She has also been cited as having worked at the UN early in her career, prior to her role at the Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission.

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