With the DEX in place, users can stake NIM and receive stablecoins or BTC, or convert between assets entirely on-chain. Using native staking to fund services or perks is already technically possible; this allows building real products on top of it.
Following this milestone closely, it directly intersects two open community asks on the protocol repo: core-rs-albatross #3170 (a standard web interface for tracking staking rewards) and #3171 (validator reward-integrity guarantees).
The reason those matter here: on Albatross, all staking rewards go to the validator’s reward address, and the split between validator and stakers is an off-chain promise. Native staking products and liquid staking (Ae.3) will multiply the number of pools and derivative tokens riding exactly that trust layer so a standard, public way to verify that a pool pays what it owes becomes infrastructure, not a nice-to-have.
I run the ImpactZero pool (0% fee, auto-compounding) and have open-sourced the payout engine it runs (github.com/subimpact/nimiq-restake-bot). I’m currently building the ecosystem-facing version, a public payout-verification + rewards tracker any staker can use for any validator and will bring a Community Council funding proposal for it in the Proposals & Bounties category shortly. Would love this milestone to keep public verifiability of payouts in scope.
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It sounds amazing. Happy to read your proposal very soon and thanks for contributing to the ecosystem!
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Super excited about this - some additional discussion is also noted here: Receive NIM staking rewards in BTC or USDC/USDT or both!.
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Totally! I think this discussion, and also some initial questions and ideas from @pls_enter were the inspiration for this.
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