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I will explain.

Usually, when people have "liquid" HIVE on their wallets (or for that matter, any kind of tokens), and if for some reason their account keys get compromised, the attacker only needs to broadcast a transaction and the account being attacked loses all those tokens.

And because "Staked" tokens can't be "unstaked" instantaneously (on HIVE it takes 13 weeks, on ATX for example, takes 28 days), the attacker even if gains access to the keys, will not be able to steal your tokens. Even if the attacker starts the power down.

And because it takes time, gives you (the true account owner) time to change the keys via the recovery account (hence why is important to have a good recovery account of someone you know and trust).

After changing the keys, you can then gain control of your account and you can cancel the power downs the attacker might have started. Effectively not loosing anything.

This is the protection of "staking".

Note: Unfortunately liquidity pools are liquid tokens in a sense, so an attacker could gain access to all those funds. It would be nice if one could decide how to set liquidity into liquidity pools (and sort of have a version of things that are similar to staked tokens). This would be especially very important for large accounts.

Does this help understand a bit more about it?