Staking

Support the network. Earn from the signal.

Staking is how you actively participate in securing Vibin’ while earning rewards for helping power the future of decentralized music data. By staking VIBIN tokens, you contribute to validator trust, data integrity and long-term decentralization.

How Staking Works

You stake by delegating your VIBIN tokens to validators who process encrypted music data on the network. Staking is non-custodial, your tokens remain in your wallet but are locked for the duration of your stake.

❃ No minimum staking period.
❃ Rewards accumulate in real time.
❃ Unstaking triggers a 7-day cooldown period before your tokens can be withdrawn.

Stake here: https://stake.startvibin.io

What Validators Do

Validators in the Vibin’ network operate secure computation nodes. These nodes use Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs) to privately process encrypted listening data. They validate authenticity, assess quality and generate zero-knowledge attestations without ever seeing your raw history.

By delegating to a validator, you're backing their performance and helping scale encrypted data processing.

Delegation and Rewards

Delegation is a collaborative model where rewards are shared between validators and delegators. The more stake a validator holds, the more often they’re selected to process data, resulting in more frequent reward cycles for their delegators.

Stakers earn a portion of the validator's processing rewards, aligned with their contribution and the validator's uptime.

Validator Incentives and Commission

Validators incur operational costs running secure hardware and maintaining performance. To stay sustainable, they charge a commission fee on the rewards they generate for their delegators.

Over time, validators may differentiate themselves through:

❃ Higher uptime and validation throughput.
❃ Competitive commission rates.
❃ Strong community trust and transparency.

Slashing and Future Protocol Safeguards

In the initial phase, Vibin’ will not implement slashing. However, future protocol upgrades may introduce slashing mechanisms to penalize validators who:

❃ Submit fraudulent data proofs.
❃ Censor or exclude legitimate contributors.
❃ Fail to meet cryptographic validation standards.

If implemented, slashing would destroy a portion of the validator's staked VIBIN to enforce network honesty.

In the initial phase staking remains low-risk, with future safeguards designed to strengthen long-term trust and security.