I'm a beginner so I put it in the Beginners & Help section.
Coinbase offers "Cosmos" with a yearly annual return of 17.66%.
I did some research on Cosmos and its future looks bright.
On my research, it says to only Stake on huge platforms, such as Coinbase.
I realize the drawback is you freeze your funds for a certain amount of time.
The other drawback is because of Crypto's ups and downs, you might lose money if it goes down. But that's true of any crypto, including BTC.
As far as I can tell, the annual return stays at 17.66% for the duration.
Is there any drawback I'm missing?
Why don't people just buy Cryptos that they can stake?
The best time to stake should always be during crypto winter, it's always easy to buy coins at cheap price and stake them, you will enjoy the APY and the profit when there is pump in the market or when the bull run comes around. Staking coins or token should be discourage during bullrun because in this period, the crypto market can be extra voltile in which buying at the top might give loss and staking it again will add to it because staking contracts wouldn't allow you to unstake until the period of staking is finished and you will continue to have loss is possible and the APY profits wouln't be enough to compesate your loss.
For me, I don't like staking due to the security concerns in smart contracts and hack that always happen in the backend, many people have lost thousands of dollars because of this features in altcoins and don't have money to invest again, if the token stake are not teams or venture capitals that are always the ealry bird to avoid token price crash, I don't like staking a bit because the common investors don't gain anything from it, they are always the losers.