Is there support built in to Cardano for stake pools to receive staking of native assets?
For example, the Meld Protocol plans to include staking of Meld tokens. Are they likely to / able to use (their own?) Cardano native stake pool(s) to achieve this?
Note that in Eth/Bsc, when we talk about staking, it means a transaction in which you loose custody of your assets because they are transferred to another wallet, the wallet of the smart contract. Cardano is clearly different because staking (at least, of Ada) does not need or require this to happen.
This seems a pretty significant difference - hence, does this difference also extend to native assets and future dapp designs, and to what extent is this clear at this point?
Will stake pools take on further functionality down the road?
(I read that hydra means a subset of stake pools will handle a channel, as a layer 2/ lightning style thing, this being a different additional role, down the road).
Of course, with Plutus, you can undoubtedly implement a staking mechanism for native assets, but I wondered whether it has been planned that the already existing stake pools can take on an additional role like this or any other.
I suppose the raison d'etre for what we currently call stake pools is (entirely) to provide the consensus layer.
Whereas, the same word, "staking", is also used in defi, when the goal is other things, completely unrelated to achieving consensus (e.g., a project wants to provide rewards for locking up tokens to decrease volatility in early stages of a project). There seems to be a terminology challenge here - in PoW chains, the double meaning doesn't arise. So, how are we going to handle this? The term SPO is clearly established, so... can't think of a good term right now...!
