Deep Tide TechFlow News, on December 25, Ripple's Chief Technology Officer David Schwartz responded on X regarding the nature of staking in the cryptocurrency market. He stated that there is a fundamental difference between the creation of new value and the transfer of existing value; staking belongs to the former, while interest income belongs to the latter.

David Schwartz further explained that when users receive dividends from stocks, those earnings are created/earned by others and transferred to you. In cryptocurrency staking, users are creating the assets they receive. Staking is about creating assets, rather than receiving assets from others who create/earn those assets.