On March 31, 2025, Graphite Network launched its Market Staking Program, an innovative model that rewards active traders rather than passive holders. 

It reflects a major change in the decentralized finance (DeFi) space, where active trading has overtaken passive staking as the preferred approach for many users.

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Fueling this shift are the growing challenges of passive staking, centralization risks that hand too much control to large players, and market saturation that’s shrinking returns for everyday users. Together, these factors have made staking increasingly unattractive in today’s fast-moving, participation-driven DeFi landscape.

When asked about this change in trend, Marko Ratkovic, the CTO of Graphite Network, who has previously spoken to Crypto Daily, shared his …