We were joined by Mirko Schmiedl & Tobias Jung, CEO & BD of Staking Rewards, to discuss the staking landscape from a retail vs. enterprise-grade perspective, and how it may affect decentralisation.
Apart from incentivising market participants to secure the network through inflationary rewards, many consider staking as an equivalent of stock dividend yield. As a result, although Bitcoin is regarded as digital gold, protocols are looking for ways to increase its utilisation in DeFi and, ultimately, generate yield. Nowadays, while newer networks are struggling to attract investors and sustain a healthy, decentralised validator set, more established blockchains capture the lion’s share of PoS actors. However, in a constant race for profit basis points, centralised consolidation of stakers seems inevitable. Join us for a fascinating discussion on the staking landscape and the challenges it may present to decentralisation.
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This episode is hosted by Brian Fabian Crain & Sebastien Couture.