Calm your tits, Bitcoin has dropped below 60k quite a few times already, pretty sure it's time to get used to it and consider it a norm at this point (which it is, tbh). Afaik staking as you've said, yes, is the most used option for crypto passive income? I mean I reckon a lot more would stake regardless of the warnings people say about not your keys not your coins cause it can bring profit on top of the possible profits from the coin growing in price itself.

I prefer just letting my coins appreciate by themselves though.