Aptos community proposal seeks to slash staking rewards by nearly 50%
18 Abril 2025 - 6:30PM
Cointelegraph
An Aptos community member submitted a proposal on April 18 to
slash staking rewards for the network’s native token, Aptos (APT),
by nearly 50%
The proposal, submitted
by a community member called MoonSheisty, aims at reducing reward
yields from 7% to 3.79% in a three-month period, aligning Aptos
staking rewards with other layer-1 blockchains and encouraging
capital efficiency.
The proposal has sparked curiosity on X, but early comments on
GitHub show some initial resistance.
A community member going by ElagabalxNode
noted that reducing the staking reward without “compensatory
mechanisms like a robust delegation program” could push smaller
validators out of the network, thus weakening the Aptos
blockchain’s decentralization and long-term resistance.
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The proposal addresses the validators’ role in the network,
stating that Aptos should consider a community validator program to
give grants and stake to small validators contributing to the
ecosystem.”
Aptos was founded in 2021 by a group of former Meta engineers.
According to DefiLlama, the Aptos
blockchain has a total value locked of $974 million as of April 18,
with nearly a $320 million coming from lending protocol Aries
Markets.
Aptos TVL and other metrics. Source:
DefiLlama
While high staking rewards can incentivize users to lock up
tokens on Aptos, MoonSheisty argues that they may also discourage
participation in higher-risk, higher-reward opportunities within
the ecosystem, such as restaking, DePIN infrastructure, MEV, and
decentralized finance.
Staking ‘real reward rates’ vary considerably
Staking rewards can vary significantly across blockchains.
According to CoinLedger, real returns on the BNB Smart Chain are
among the highest at 7.43%, while Cardano offers one of the lowest
at just 0.55%.
Staking offers multiple benefits: It incentivizes users to lock
their tokens on-chain, supports validators and helps secure the
network. Rewards work similarly to interest earned on a savings
account — but instead of cash, stakers earn crypto, which can
fluctuate in fiat value.
Related: Coinbase’s Ethereum staking dominance risks
overcentralization: Execs
From time to time, proposals emerge aiming to modify staking
procedures. In June 2024, Polkadot introduced a
proposal to reduce the time needed to unstake to just two days.
In September, the Starknet community voted to pass a
new staking mechanism, while Ethereum co-founder Vitalik
Buterin proposed
solutions to staking issues a few weeks later.
While staking gives the community a true “stake” in the network,
there are risks associated with it, including the consolidation of
smaller pools into larger ones. This trend can undermine
decentralization and weaken the blockchain’s overall
resilience.
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