Algorand rolls out crypto’s most inclusive staking rewards program

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Avoids punitive slashing and token lockups, maintains web3’s lowest costs for node runners with real-time reward payments SINGAPORE, Jan. 24, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — Staking rewards have arrived on the Algorand blockchain. The Algorand Foundation announced today that, after this week’s consensus mechanism upgrade, ‘block rewards’ are now being paid, in real-time, to validators successfully proposing blocks to the Layer-1 blockchain. The rewards begin at 10 ALGO per block and will decay by 1% every m...