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Recently, I've been checking out LST/re-staking stuff again, everyone is watching the "extra profits," but I want to ask first: where does this money actually come from? To put it simply, it's either new service fees/incentives subsidizing, or it's risk packaged and sold to you (like penalties, de-pegging, contract permission changes that can turn things around). I see projects tend to first check the contract owner/administrator to see if they can upgrade or pause withdrawals at will, then look at whether LPs are locked or not, and whether the team wallet is nearby ready to "add more" at any time. Some dashboards/tag systems have recently been criticized for lagging, and can still be misleading, I believe… Yesterday, I had to keep refreshing and retrying an address to see its tags appear slowly, and it made me even less confident. Anyway, profits aren’t given for free; I’d rather take less than be a contributor to tuition fees.