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for no reason in particular except for shits and giggles in the best case, incompetence because their blockchain wasn't ready yet and they never could change the staking model afterwards in the worst case

the distinction people care about is whether transaction finality depends on Ethereum or not. it doesn't.

validators merely activate their status as a node by doing a random assortment of things, which in this case happens to include moving assets on the Ethereum network. that's it.

the part about delegation is irrelevant.




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