I took a look at the staking situation of STRK, and to be honest, I was a bit surprised.

In less than a year, 1 billion tokens have been locked, accounting for more than one-fifth of the circulating supply. There are currently over 180 validating nodes running on the network, with more than 60,000 delegated accounts underneath. This scale is no longer comparable to the testing phase; the PoS mechanism has truly taken off.

The growth rate is quite remarkable—an increase of 27 points in a single month, and more than a doubling over the entire quarter. The reasons behind this are not complicated: after the launch of Staking v2, the improvement in user experience was obvious, with the unlocking period reduced from three weeks to one week, which had an immediate positive impact on liquidity. Technological iteration is indeed driving the data upward, rather than simply relying on hype.