How staking incentivizes trust without burning energy

StarkWare’s Noam Nisan joins The Clear Crypto Podcast to demystify staking, explore its economic incentives and weigh the trade-offs between proof-of-work and proof-of-stake.

What if a financial system could run itself not by burning electricity, but by rewarding good behavior? That’s the promise of staking, a mechanism that powers many modern blockchains by turning users into network operators. 

In this week’s episode of The Clear Crypto Podcast, hosts Gareth Jenkinson and Nathan Jeffay sit down with StarkWare’s Noam Nisan to unpack how this trustless engine works, why it matters and what’s really at stake.

Jeffay began by highlighting how staking is part of the backbone that keeps the blockchain running, and runs itself, with volunteers.

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