How to Stake
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Staking on ALEX requires a few easy steps. In short, it consists of locking up your tokens temporarily to earn rewards. In staking, time is measured in cycles, and at the end of each cycle, you will be able to harvest your rewards. At that point, you may choose to transfer rewards to your wallet or to proceed to Liquid Staking with LiALEX.
If you haven't already, the first step is to connect your wallet to ALEX. Go to the Stake page and under the My Staking section, press the Connect stacks wallet button. After performing the corresponding validation, My Staking will display.
You can always change your wallet configuration from the Wallet Manager in the top right corner.
In My Staking, Manual Staking will indicate how much ALEX you're currently staking, along with its estimated Annual Percentage Rate (APR). Bear in mind that, unlike Annual Percentage Yield (APY), APR doesn't take into account the compounding effect of rewards.
On the right-hand side of My Staking, you will see the Cycles section, which indicates how much time is left for the upcoming cycle, as well as the number of the current one. You can expand this section to display All Cycles. The timer indicates how much time is left of the current cycle. Bear in mind that your tokens will be staked on the upcoming cycle for the first time.
Manual Staking: The amount of $ALEX you are currently staking.
APR: The Annual Percentage Rate of your investment. It is the interest you would earn by staking for one year.
Liquid Staking: The amount of $ALEX you are currently staking through LISA.
APY: The Annual Percentage Yield of your investment. It is the interest you would earn by staking for one year, including compounding interest from re-staking your rewards.
APower to be Distributed: The amount of APower you will earn as a result of your investment.
Cycles: The number of the current cycle, as well as the numbers of the two upcoming cycles.
Liquid Staking: The amount of $ALEX you will be staking through LISA for each cycle as a result of your investments so far.
Manual Staking: The amount of $ALEX you will be manually staking for each cycle as a result of your investments so far.
By pressing Proceed to LISA to Stake you will open the dashboard for liquid staking on LISA. For more information, you can consult the LISA Staking Guide.
Once you've verified your current balances, APR, APY and cycle timing, you can proceed to the next step.
Select how much $ALEX you wish to stake and for how long. You can use the slider to personalize the amount of cycles, and you will see an estimate of how many days the selected amount of cycles will last. If you wish to stake ALEX tokens for different periods of time, you will need to execute two transactions. For example, if you wish to stake 100 ALEX for 8 cycles and 80 ALEX for 24 cycles, you will need to follow these steps twice.
The MAX button will stake your entire balance.
In Staking Details you can see the numbers of the cycles you'll be staking for under your current settings, along with the corresponding "Start" and "End" blocks on the Stacks network. Afterwards, click Stake to begin staking.
You will be prompted to confirm that the selected settings are correct. Please verify the information on the pop-up window and press Confirm to continue.
Your Stacks wallet will ask you to confirm the transaction. After that, wait for your transaction to be confirmed on the network.
A Transaction Mining... pop-up should appear on the top right corner of your screen, followed by Transaction Successful a few moments later.
Wait for the transaction to be confirmed on the network.
Your staked tokens could take between 20-40 minutes to appear on the Stake page, but once the transaction is confirmed on the ALEX network, you will be able to see your staked tokens in the My Staking section.
Recommended to track transaction status:
Turn on Telegram notifications, you will get notified when the transaction is confirmed.
Search for the transaction on the ALEX Explorer.
Check your address activity on the wallet.
