Unbundling staking: Towards rainbow staking

I appreciate that your starting point involves asking and answering the following questions:

  • For what role are LSPs suitable? Economic security.

  • For what role are solo-stakers suitable? Censorship resistance.

It might seem like a minor detail, but most proposals for adjusting staking mechanics fail to consider these questions from the outset, which leads to overlooking how solo-stakers can meaningfully participate in the network over the long term.

The biggest downside I see to your proposal is that it is:

  • Complex
  • Difficult to migrate to
  • Challenging to predict second-order effects

The first two points might not have any alternative other than defining a clear specification. For the last point, I would urge more research into areas such as tokenized claims, restaking, etc.

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