Before no Nefty Required Staking but the recent update a week ago now any interaction with Nefty Blocks should earn NEFTY.
Now Staking NEFTY earns WAX ,all trades qualify for NEFTY generation, & Liquidity providers earn NEFTY as well.
Bonus points the Nefty Blocks market takes no WAX CPU or RAM the NFT colection being bought or sold pays for resources. Also Blockchain RPG was recently updated but your right the CPU rules being changed is some B.S