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Can anyone explain to me what value there is in staking an app token other than "paying you not to sell this token"? 

(NOT talking about a protocol using staked tokens for validation collateral, an honest to god APP token - why is staking useful in a "better for users and the app" sense)

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if someone is a long term player why do they need the extra incentive of staking?

the platform that provides the staking oppty, it's a way to align long term incentives

this is like a bank will give you an certain interest when you put your money on them.

so yes, some people will take advantage of that - regardless they are short or long term.

it is just a better incentives.

Plus also if you tell them by staking, you are like strengthening the network (another non incentives)

But wouldn’t an economically rational actor just hold a token if they expected the value to go up in the future?

Staking only changes things in the scenario where the expectation is that value will decrease in the future and ultimately just delays the economically rational action of selling a token