# Addressing the risk of inaccurate Pyth data to increase the security of DeFi

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**Created:** [June 4, 2024, 11:39am UTC](https://forum.pyth.network/t/addressing-the-risk-of-inaccurate-pyth-data-to-increase-the-security-of-defi/655 "2024-06-04T11:39:30Z")\
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**Post date:** [June 13, 2024, 8:55am UTC](https://forum.pyth.network/t/addressing-the-risk-of-inaccurate-pyth-data-to-increase-the-security-of-defi/655/13 "2024-06-13T08:55:46Z")

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> [@abwrld](#):
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> However it would be cool to have proof of stake model for Pyth, where anybody can stake / delegate and earn rewards for providing security.

Yes, exactly! Old school whitepaper ideas

I’m quoting here, but the ideas were along the lines of:

“Delegators stake tokens and earn data fees in exchange for potentially losing their stake if the oracle is inaccurate.”

" Data staking allows delegators to stake tokens to earn data fees. The delegators in aggregate also **determine the level of influence that each publisher has on the aggregate price**. In addition, this mechanism determines whether delegators’ stakes are slashed."

“Finally, the mechanism collects data fees from consumers and distributes a share to delegators. The remainder goes into a reward pool that is distributed to publishers.”

The context for the final passage about the data fees from consumers was in reference to a different idea than the (currently implemented) [cross-chain fees generated by the Pyth pull oracle](https://docs.pyth.network/price-feeds/how-pyth-works/fees).

Nevertheless, there’s maybe a world where the data fees generated by Pyth (see the [opBNB fees discussion](https://forum.pyth.network/t/deploy-pyth-s-pull-oracle-to-opbnb/191/15)) could go into such a “delegator mechanism” that makes the Pyth Price Feeds more robust.

The weightings of data providers for each price feed, for example, is one of those topics that’s long overdue, IMO

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