How Staking Works
Staking lets participants delegate assets to operators who run Blueprint services. Those assets back service execution and can be slashed if operators violate service requirements.
Tangle provides permissionless, asset-configurable staking for Blueprint service instances. Any asset created on or bridged to Tangle can be used as collateral to stake on operators. Stakers earn rewards proportional to service usage and protocol incentive budgets.
Benefits of Tangle Staking include:
- Staking any asset
- Securing on-demand service instances with unique assets
- Increased efficiency of staked capital by sharing it across instances
- Additional revenue streams for stakers and operators
- Boosted security for protocols leveraging new assets as security capital
- Innovation in new blockchain services by harnessing decentralized resources
How Staking Works on Tangle
- Developers publish Blueprints that define service requirements.
- Operators register and opt into the Blueprints they want to run.
- Stakers delegate assets to operators to provide economic security.
- Customers instantiate services and select operators based on pricing and commitments.
- Operators execute services and earn service fees; stakers share in rewards.
Staking aligns operators, developers, and stakers around service reliability and makes it possible to secure on-demand services without a consensus-layer dependency.
Liquid Staking Option
If you need a transferable staking position, use liquid delegation vaults. Vault shares are ERC20 tokens backed by a fixed operator + asset + blueprint selection.
See Liquid Staking for the detailed flow.