Institutional money is flooding into validator nodes at record levels—yield hunting is real.

Staking = locking up tokens to secure PoS networks. Validators get picked based on how much they stake, not how much compute they burn.

Simple: you lock → you validate → you earn.

Institutions are stacking $ETH $SOL $ATOM nodes because passive yield > sitting in cold storage. This is where the smart money parks liquidity while waiting for the next leg up.

If you're not staking, you're getting diluted.