Staking
Secure Taraxa by Staking your TARA!
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Secure Taraxa by Staking your TARA!
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There are 3 options available to you when staking TARA, earning staking yields, and helping to secure the Taraxa network all at the same time. Win-win-win.
Liquid staking: stake via the , it's 1-click staking, with the option to auto-compounding your yields back into staking, automatically picks the most reliable & highest-yield validators, and receive a liquid staking token, no KYC, no login required.
Community site: stake by delegating directly to validators of your choice, through , but it is geo-fenced and requires KYC due to regulatory compliance.
On-chain: by interacting with the on-chain DPoS contract, requires some technical knowledge, works through the Remix app.
Staking TARA means directly delegating your TARA tokens into validator nodes
After the Aspen Upgrade, staking yields are dynamically adjusted. As of this writing it has an APR of ~14-15%, and it will continue to decay over time because Aspen caps the overall supply of TARA. Learn about the .
Staking yields will be shared between staker and validators (they will take a commission)
Staking yields , please note that this is higher than what's stated in the section, the dev team is working to build a community voting infrastructure to facilitate community-proposed & voted-on updates to the economics
You can redeem your yields through the
Staking (delegating your TARA to validators) is a critical part of Taraxa's consensus mechanism, which uses proof of stake (PoS) to guard against Sybil attacks. In plain language, staking makes attacking a network expensive, and aims to make attacking a network so expensive that the cost far outstrips the benefits.
When you stake, not only are you helping to secure the network against attacks, you are also earning a yield (rewards) for your efforts.
Please follow the guide below to stake and help secure the Taraxa network!