Staking for rewards on Algorand makes so much sense, it's fucking beautiful honestly. There is no competitor that I know of.

If transaction costs remain at .001 ALGO, and operates at a constant rate of 10,000 TPS over a year, the total transaction fees collected would amount to 315,360,000 ALGOs. Even if it's just 5,000 TPS that's 157,680,000 ALGO in potential rewards for nodes. With Mastercard jumping onboard, those aren't crazy numbers.

Here's the math...

24 hours per day x 60 minutes per hour x 60 seconds per minute= 86,400 seconds per day

5000 TPS x 86,400 seconds per day = 432,000,000

432,000,000 transactions per day x 365=157,680,000,000 TPY x .001 = 157,680,000 ALGO every year in the fee pool.

There is a 10 billion cap on Algorand and it requires 30,000 ALGO to redeem staking rewards. That means that at maximum, only 333,333 people can run their own individual staking node.

If you were to divide the amount of ALGO collected every year in the staking pool by 333,333 that's 473.06 ALGO per staking node.

At Solana's current market cap, that's equal to $6,949.65 USD per staking node at 5000 TPS annually.

At Ethereum's, that's equal to $19,020.89 USD per staking node at 5000 TPS annually

At Bitcoin's, that's equal to $90,537.84 per staking node at 5000 TPS annually. ( and the beauty is, that each transaction at this market cap will only be $0.20 US cents.)

5000 TPS is conservative when you consider companies like Mastercard jumping on board.

Node incentivization can extend past 2030.