The gap between the 8% in the docs and what arrives in a wallet is not a discrepancy, it is five separate deductions. Here is every one of them, read live from the chain, plus the validator set doing the securing.
Not just how much is bonded today, but which way it's moving. Net staking is a leading confidence signal: a network people are quietly unstaking is a different story than one where deposits keep growing, even if the headline bonded total looks similar either day.
Ask what RIO staking pays and you can get four different answers, all defensible, differing by a third. They are not in conflict: each one measures a different point on the same chain of deductions. Read the ladder top to bottom and the disagreement disappears.
This is the part that explains the ladder. Realio validators are not secured by RIO alone, so freshly minted RIO is shared across a base that is only about half RIO.
| Staking asset | Bonded + unbonding | Share of pool |
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Who is actually producing blocks, how concentrated that is, and what it costs to delegate. Concentration is reported as measurement, not accusation.
| # | Validator | Bonded weight | Share | Commission |
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