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stakes

stakes

8.6
Digital tokens people lock in a network to earn rewards
  • noun
  • /steɪks/
  • Texting
translation icon : cantidad apostada
  • Sometimes it's proof of work, sometimes it's proof of stake or in the permission systems.
  • high stakes

Examples

  • So this is, it's available with cryptos that you use what's called proof of stake models, right, in terms of processing their payments.

  • And that is why we support stakes so much, OK.

  • I thought that the merge and this huge proof of stake thing was like a huge win for crypto.

  • At this moment, I'm only concerned with the Orchid Stakes.

    Fiction book (2001)
  • Now the network is secured simply by the staking of a token with economic value.

  • They run the same code, but they run it on proof of stake or other consensus methods that don't require so much gas fees.

  • To earn rewards in the network, users must commit a certain amount of their tokens as stakes.

  • He decided to increase his stakes in the cryptocurrency protocol to benefit from the new governance features.

  • Many investors are worried about the high stakes involved in participating in decentralized finance platforms.

Antonyms

42 3.7

Taking money out of a bank account or investment

Compounds

A situation with very big risks and important results for people involved

Annual horse race in Elmont, New York, for three-year-old horses and the final US Triple Crown race

A situation that has big risks and serious results for the people involved, like a trial or business deal

A competition with very large risks or rewards

Surface Forms

stake singular
stakes plural

Morphology

stakes = stake (transparent) = stake + s

The crypto sense extends the 'amount committed/risked' sense of 'stake' to tokens; the plural marker is standard and the relation is derivationally clear.

Etymology

The crypto sense of stakes keeps the same idea: to 'stake' coins is to put them down as a promise or pledge, like planting a stake to show you care for something. So in blockchain, stakes are the tokens you lock and risk to take part, vote, or earn rewards.