No Staking Rewards Kill DPoS — Telos Needs Users, Liquidity, and Developers

If staking provides no reward, doesn't that effectively kill DPoS? Why would anyone stake tokens if there's no incentive to participate? I believe this question goes to the heart of staking economics and decentralized proof-of-stake security.

It's almost absurd to listen to criticisms of Solana given their throughput — they account for roughly 83% of total crypto transactions. You can critique Solana's model all you want, but their transaction volume dominates many crypto use cases across DeFi, NFTs, and smart contract activity.

At present, I see no compelling reason to develop on or transact with Telos. There is no clear competitive advantage. REX isn't the root cause, and inflation isn't the central problem either. The fundamental issues are lack of users, lack of liquidity, and lack of application developers — interconnected failures that stunt network growth.

Unless Telos addresses user adoption, liquidity provisioning, and developer incentives quickly, I believe the project risks becoming irrelevant.