Validator Selection, Staking Rewards, and IBC: A Practical Security Model for Cosmos Users

A common misconception is that staking is mainly a yield decision: find the validator offering the most attractive reward, delegate tokens, and let compounding do the rest. In the Cosmos ecosystem, that view is incomplete. Staking is also a governance choice, a security decision, and—when assets move across chains through Inter-Blockchain Communication (IBC)—part of a […]