The benefits of staked ORE (as solana:sTorERYB6xAZ1SSbwpK3zoK2EEwbBrc7TZAzg1uCGiH) can easily go unnoticed or misunderstood.
Holding
$ORE as a store of value is the start.
Holding
$ORE as solana:sTorERYB6xAZ1SSbwpK3zoK2EEwbBrc7TZAzg1uCGiH is the smart.
It turns the store of value
$ORE into a set-it-and-forget auto-compounding flywheel (~15% APR).
You no longer have to waste time claiming your rewards, and reinvesting, over and over to compound.
The claiming and re-staking also creates a tax accounting mess over time.
solana:sTorERYB6xAZ1SSbwpK3zoK2EEwbBrc7TZAzg1uCGiH does it all for you. No claiming. No staking. It just quietly auto-compounds the rewards on the backend. All the work is done for you.
Even better. You can shield it for privacy - and the auto-compounding and APR earnings still carry on, privately.
Let's say - you buy $10,000 worth of solana:sTorERYB6xAZ1SSbwpK3zoK2EEwbBrc7TZAzg1uCGiH today @ $50 each - and forget about it.
The 200 solana:sTorERYB6xAZ1SSbwpK3zoK2EEwbBrc7TZAzg1uCGiH tokens just sit in your wallet for 10 years. Let's use a gloomy scenario where
$ORE price is stagnant at $50 for 10 years.
Without doing anything else --> your $10,000 solana:sTorERYB6xAZ1SSbwpK3zoK2EEwbBrc7TZAzg1uCGiH grows to roughly $40,500 – $44,800 (4.05x - 4.48x) from auto-compounding — with zero price increase in ORE needed.
Let's say
$ORE price increases each year by 10% - 30%, typical of other store of value assets.
At the low end (10% ORE price growth per year): Your $10,000 becomes roughly $105,000 – $116,000.
At the high end (36% ORE price growth per year): Your $10,000 becomes roughly $876,000 – $970,000.
It's worth the time to research and understand, while it's early.