Simply because you might be assigning your tokens doesn’t mean that validators takes control of your coins. They don’t maintain or own your assets. At any given time a delegator can un-delegate their stake and delegate with other validator. Ethereum’s mining works a little in different ways to Bitcoin’s. https://financefeeds.com/1800-ethereum-has-us-sanctions-to-blame-investors-move-to-panshibi-shibi-as-15000-gain-could-hit-after-copyright-approval/