# Staking limitations TON tokens holder faces several staking limitations: **Knowledge base** – Staking requires a knowledge base on POS principles and blockchain architecture, thus significantly reducing the addressable market. **Technical requirements** – Running a validation node requires high-performance hardware, constant uptime, system administration resources, and experience. **Significant stake** – Current minimum amount of tokens that would allow you to run a validator's node is 600,000 TON tokens. The amount is reduced to 10,000 if you are joining a pool. **Illiquidity** – After being staked, the tokens are locked up, and holders have no access to the funds until the tokens are unstaked at the end of the relevant validation round. Partially these problems are addressed by “staking as a service” providers, but the assets stay illiquid for the whole staking period. --- # 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://docs.bemo.fi/welcome-to-bemo/what-is-liquid-staking/staking-limitations.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.