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# 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.