The treasury currently has over 1 billion ada, so why doesn’t anyone stake it ? wouldn’t that increase security ?
The funds in the treasury are not associated with a specific wallet or stake key, so they cannot be delegated to a stake pool.
Note that the treasury is a special-purpose fund managed by the Cardano protocol itself. It accumulates ADA from sources such as:
- A portion of transaction fees
- A portion of stake pool rewards
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No, it would not increase security. It would just distort the stake distribution. The stake pools chosen (by what process?) for those treasury ADA would get more blocks, the stake pools not chosen would get less.
We could vote who should get that stake (if it were technically even possible, which it isn’t, see other answer), but that doesn’t make any sense at all: If voting was a secure way of choosing stake pools, why would we do proof of stake at all?
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