When working with Tellor, you will not encounter any application procedures or schemes that ask you to simply trust the network. The platform completely avoids using a whitelist to determine who is authorized to report data. This means that absolutely anyone is welcome to stake TRB and submit a value. After making a submission, the participant will either earn a reward for their contribution or face being slashed as the result of a dispute. Everything is driven by transparent, open-source staking and dispute resolution to keep the cryptoeconomics in check directly on-chain.