Staking & Network Security

The goal

REAL uses Proof-of-Stake to keep the network:

  • decentralized

  • secure

  • operationally efficient

The consensus foundation

REAL’s PoS implementation is based on Cosmos Tendermint.

Who stakes in REAL?

REAL staking isn’t only for “normal validators.”
REAL also requires staking from business validators:

  • tokenization companies

  • risk scoring companies

  • insurance companies

This is the “trustless enforcement” design:

  • If business validators behave badly or their performance is wrong → stake can be slashed.

Incentives for validators (baseline rewards)

The whitepaper describes:

  • 10 tokens per block

  • ~52.5M tokens/year issuance

  • ~5% inflation in year 1 vs total supply of 1B tokens (decreasing thereafter)

Adaptive staking (security through economics)

Rewards are distributed using an optimal stake-rate target mechanism (described as “Polkadot style”).

Conceptually, this aims to:

  • keep staking participation healthy

  • prevent the network from becoming fragile due to under-staking

  • reduce concentration risk over time (economic balancing)