# What are the key benefits of staking?

Answer:

- **Secure validator nodes**  
PoS networks are heavily dependent on network participation and validator integrity. Blockdaemon makes running your dedicated validator node easy, or stake your tokens to Blockdaemon’s validators to receive participation rewards.

- **Failover safeguards**  
Blockdaemon has manual failover with a trained and battle-tested team to eliminate the risk of double signing. Blockdaemon manages all of this automatically, so you don’t have to worry about staying online, in sync, and up to date.

- **Enhanced monitoring**  
Blockdaemon monitors all machine and protocol metrics with 24/7 human and automated monitoring to avoid downtime-related slashing.

- **Slashing guarantee**  
If slashing does occur due to any fault on the part of Blockdaemon, we ensure 100% loss coverage. However, Blockdaemon does not cover slashing losses resulting from network malfunctions, as these are outside our control.

Learn more about each of these benefits [here](https://docs.blockdaemon.com/docs/benefits-of-staking-with-blockdaemon).