# Staking and voting rewards for pyth stakers **URL:** \ **Category:** Ideas Bank\ **Tags:** constitutional-pip\ **Created:** [June 3, 2024, 3:33pm UTC](https://forum.pyth.network/t/staking-and-voting-rewards-for-pyth-stakers/572 "2024-06-03T15:33:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 32
**Author:** ![ed\_pyth](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/user_avatar/forum.pyth.network/ed_pyth/32/12_2.png) [@ed\_pyth](https://forum.pyth.network/u/ed_pyth)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2024, 6:00am UTC](https://forum.pyth.network/t/staking-and-voting-rewards-for-pyth-stakers/572/32 "2024-06-06T06:00:55Z")
> [@Pepito](#): > > I don’t believe that distributing rewards for simply staking creates a sustainable economic model for the network. > [@PapiChuloGrim](#): > > Do you think long term this creates a bad precedent? People voting without actually reading just to claim Thank you TheDetective for taking the initiative on this proposal! These are super important topics. I quoted Papi and Pepito above as my first impressions lean towards these considerations. Nevertheless, I think this is the beginning of potentially very interesting mechanisms for activating community members, especially if it _could_ be combined with new mechanisms for network robustness or additional functionalities. For example, this [other idea for enhanced oracle security](https://forum.pyth.network/t/addressing-the-risk-of-inaccurate-pyth-data-to-increase-the-security-of-defi/655/5) could lead to very interesting synergies here (for lack of a better word)… --- _[View the full topic](https://forum.pyth.network/t/staking-and-voting-rewards-for-pyth-stakers/572)._