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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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adding to the slashing mechanic, staking should be pluralistic. the staker is incentivized in some way to exchange fungible X for f(X), but if the functor of X is both centralized & probabilistic, then there's some unknown opportunity cost.

can see this as ERC-4626 (staking standard) respective to pooltogether/frax.

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it's an honest account of holding any fungible asset. all users/apps deal in standard time, yet a majority of consumer apps are designed in a "Skinner box" fashion to abstract away the opportunity cost of time spent in-app, or otherwise sell delegation (subs). 

staking a token is, counterintuitively, more transparent.

honestly struggling to see how this helps users + app