Recently, the staking race has become increasingly competitive, but there is a new direction worth paying attention to—storage staking.

A certain storage protocol has opened up this idea: users stake tokens to become storage nodes, earning rental income by accepting storage orders from enterprises and developers, while also receiving the protocol's token rewards. This creates a "dual income" play.

Unlike traditional staking, the returns here are directly linked to actual storage demand. The higher the market demand for storage, the greater the node’s income. This is not just token issuance out of thin air, but backed by real business volume.

Data shows that these storage nodes maintain an annualized return of 15%-20%, with much less volatility than high-risk DeFi mining projects. That’s why conservative investors are starting to pay attention to this track—relatively stable returns and more controllable risks.

In simple terms, it’s about turning your idle funds and computing resources into a continuously operating income source. In an environment where liquidity mining yields are generally declining, this model indeed offers an alternative approach.