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![TimMacknight Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:24/cr:twitter::3054431906.png) Tim Macknight [@TimMacknight](/creator/twitter/TimMacknight) on x XX followers
Created: 2025-07-22 09:28:17 UTC

🔍 With 2.1M TAO staked and validator APYs around 18.5%, staking becomes a compelling incentive for contributors. As subnet models grow larger—some with over 1.2B parameters—the economic value of securing and validating these models increases, aligning incentives for lo


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**Related Topics**
[lo](/topic/lo)
[staking](/topic/staking)
[tao](/topic/tao)

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