not to be rude, but i honestly don't understand why most replies are off topic.
It is important to notice that staking is a service. Similar to mine, where you put your processing power at stake, betting that those transactions are valid. If the transactions are invalid, you just lost your processing power as your chain will not be accepted.
The same thing goes with pos, as owners are literaterally staking their coins and "betting" that those transaction in a block are valid. If any of them is false, they lose their coins. The coins are at stake, this is why it is called Proof of Stake.
thank you, I think you're the only one who actually read my post.
is it safe to assume that any coin listed on stakingrewards with a transaction fees slider is not generating rewards from nowhere?
XTZ (with):
https://www.stakingrewards.com/earn/tezos/calculatePolkadot (without:
https://www.stakingrewards.com/earn/polkadot/calculate