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The Cardano community is divided over accidental staking, with detractors calling it a compliance protocol to appease US lawmakers.
Input Output CEO Charles Hoskinson He said such criticism was puzzling and resulted in a misunderstanding of the idea.
After reading some of the comments about contingent staking, I am still at a loss. is incredible.“
A recent SEC enforcement action against Kraken over its staking program put staking compliance in the spotlight.
recently live stream, IO CEO talked about conditional staking. This can be conceptualized as a protocol-level “right to refuse business”.
A stake pool operator (SPO) is a business, but in the existing Cardano staking model, unlike a real business, an SPO cannot reject a delegator (or customer), Hoskinson said. For example, a fried chicken restaurant owner can refuse to serve a rowdy or obnoxious customer, he said.
However, as it stands now, SPOs cannot reject delegated tokens.
He stressed that the SPO’s right to reject delegated tokens “is not inherently a compliance protocol.” IO CEOFurthermore, contingent staking is just a multisig setup, requiring that the delegated transaction proposed by the delegator is approved by the SPO.
“It’s not essentially a protocol about letting the U.S. government control things.
Using this multi-sig approach, Hoskinson said, “fire” bad customers and weed out those who don’t fit their values, saying, “Yes, we can use that pattern for KYC.”
comment Reddit post In addition, he highlighted the shifting narrative of decentralized blockchains moving from balancing power to required changes for compliance. The poster asked what other changes were planned.
“The point is, if we change it in the base layer to please America now…what other changes will we make later.”
Hoskinson It is viewed as such a criticism.”Informative, dramatic, canned reactionEspecially since conditional staking is just a concept for discussion.
