# Distributed stake protocol A protocol for [Economic space agent](/economic-space-agent.md)s to create stakeholding relationships in each others’ value productions and to collateralize credit lines. By issuing and offering/accepting stake tokens economic space agents gain capability to enter the P2P stakeholding network. Offers of stake tokens are accepted, creating a stakeholding relationship, and a transfer of a specific ownership. Stake serves as the preferred collateral for credit. The stakeholding network is like a subnetwork created through the stake tokens: how a stake token relates to another stake token (the logic) is inside stake tokens. Putting on offer a stake token introduces the capacity to create another network (a stakeholding network) into the Distributed Exchange Protocol. The capacity of P2P issuance of stake enables agents to diversify (share) risks: to risk-together. Capacity to issue stake into a value production opens up new fundraising forms. Gives economic agents a capacity to create recognised collateral for credit issuance. In short, the Distributed Stake Protocol gives economic agents a capacity for wealth creation and accumulation around heterogeneous value productions. Allows new forms of sharing risk & upside (new kind of relations) directly among peers, as well as economic space agents to design these forms; you can organize/stakehold around values and networks that you value. A key piece in the economic space protocol. --- # Agent Instructions: Querying This Documentation If you need additional information that is not directly available in this page, you can query the documentation dynamically by asking a question. Perform an HTTP GET request on the current page URL with the `ask` query parameter: ``` GET https://glossary.ecsa.io/distributed-stake-protocol.md?ask= ``` The question should be specific, self-contained, and written in natural language. The response will contain a direct answer to the question and relevant excerpts and sources from the documentation. Use this mechanism when the answer is not explicitly present in the current page, you need clarification or additional context, or you want to retrieve related documentation sections.