Currently the staking mechanism doesn't pay out a reward. Once it does, then there will be a counterpart reward paid into the network funding bucket. This network funding bucket may be tapped by ecosystem members and payments be made to those that are approved.

Main things to consider:

• Are payouts made in a one-off ad-hoc fashion or batched into monthly budgets?
• Is the capitalisation of the bucket at a fixed rate (relative to the validator payout) or adaptive?
• How does a payment get ratified?