Traditional staking rewards capital over contribution, creating unsustainable token economies. Tokenomics’ future lies in performance-based tokenomics that reward measurable work.
Opinion by: Naman Kabra, co-founder and CEO of NodeOps
For years, staking was the gold standard in crypto. Stake tokens, secure the network and earn simple, elegant and trustless rewards. Somewhere along the way, we drifted.
Staking stopped being about contribution and started being about capital. Rewards ballooned, emissions exploded and tokenomics shifted from supporting long-term infrastructure to chasing short-term yield.
