# Heavy weight delegation VS Light weight delagation

**URL:** <https://forum.cardano.org/t/heavy-weight-delegation-vs-light-weight-delagation/9541>\
**Category:** General Discussions\
**Created:** [14 March 2018 22:36 UTC](https://forum.cardano.org/t/heavy-weight-delegation-vs-light-weight-delagation/9541 "2018-03-14T22:36:56Z")\
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**Author:** ![bearbearbowl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/df788c/32.png) [@bearbearbowl](https://forum.cardano.org/u/bearbearbowl)\
**Post date:** [14 March 2018 22:36 UTC](https://forum.cardano.org/t/heavy-weight-delegation-vs-light-weight-delagation/9541/1 "2018-03-14T22:36:56Z")

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In the most recent IOHK whiteboard on the Cardano SL, ([https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f01got8H-1k&feature=youtu.be](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f01got8H-1k&feature=youtu.be)) Andrew mentioned only Heavy weight delegation is participated in the core protocol functions such as random number generation.

I am curious, since heavy weight delegation requires a high amount of ADA, would that mean if heavy weight staking is centralized, the network can be centralized as well, regardless of light weight delegations?

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**Author:** ![papa\_carp](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex023/user_avatar/forum.cardano.org/papa_carp/32/3555_2.png) [@papa\_carp](https://forum.cardano.org/u/papa_carp)\
**Post date:** [16 March 2018 16:35 UTC](https://forum.cardano.org/t/heavy-weight-delegation-vs-light-weight-delagation/9541/2 "2018-03-16T16:35:28Z")

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The details of how staking will work have not been released yet, however, there are still quite a few details out there if you look. I recommend you start on the cardano docs page - this is a good link: [https://cardanodocs.com/cardano/balance-and-stake/](https://cardanodocs.com/cardano/balance-and-stake/)

Its highly likely the staking mechanism will be gamed in that it will likely discourage centralization. As such I would expect some “sweet spot” of staked ADA for each node. Too much and incentives fall off. Right around 26m in on this video Philipp Kant refers to this [https://youtu.be/dYTangDsias](https://youtu.be/dYTangDsias)

Cardano, likely more than any other project out there, has spent a lot of time engineering this and I expect it will perform well against concerns like these and many more most people have not even thought about.