# Node Staking Node staking is a core component of Vola Network’s decentralized infrastructure model. Storage nodes and compute nodes must stake VOLA to participate in the network, provide services, secure the PartnerChain, and earn rewards. Staking aligns economic incentives with performance, reliability, and long-term commitment, ensuring that the decentralized cloud remains trustworthy, high-performing, and globally distributed. By requiring economic bonding for node participation, Vola ensures that operators maintain high-quality standards, while rewarding those who consistently deliver verifiable infrastructure services. #### Security Guaranteed Through Staking Staking creates a **trust and accountability layer** across the decentralized cloud. It ensures that all nodes, regardless of geography or operator type, remain aligned with network reliability and performance requirements. Staking VOLA: * **Proves commitment** to maintaining uptime and service quality * **Reduces attack surface** by raising the cost of malicious behavior * **Creates eligibility** for earning storage and compute rewards * **Incentivizes long-term participation**, not short-term extraction This model ensures that network infrastructure is not just decentralized, but **economically secure and performance-driven**. > *Node staking is the foundation of Vola’s decentralized infrastructure.*\ > *It ensures: High reliability and uptime, strong economic security, fair and transparent reward distribution, a globally distributed, user-owned cloud layer.* --- # Agent Instructions: Querying This Documentation If you need additional information that is not directly available in this page, you can query the documentation dynamically by asking a question. Perform an HTTP GET request on the current page URL with the `ask` query parameter: ``` GET https://wp.vola.network/usdvola-token/vola-utility/node-staking.md?ask= ``` The question should be specific, self-contained, and written in natural language. The response will contain a direct answer to the question and relevant excerpts and sources from the documentation. Use this mechanism when the answer is not explicitly present in the current page, you need clarification or additional context, or you want to retrieve related documentation sections.