Kusama Native Staking

About

Our Kusama native staking integration facilitates delegations to all validators in the active set and allows users to nominate their stake to either a single or multiple validators.

Staking rewards accrue automatically to the user's position and are updated each era.

Pending Actions

Withdraw

After the 28-day unbonding period has passed, users will need to withdraw their unstaked balance using the WITHDRAW pending action to make it available again. You can track both this unbonding progress as well as the balance available to be withdrawn via our /stake/balances endpoint.

Revoke

In the case users have some locked KSM tokens and have nominated a certain set of validators, users can revoke their nominations, meaning they are stepping back from any nominations, taking effect in the next era. The KSM tokens will not be unstaked and will remain locked, having pending actions available on that balance such as Unlock or Vote. To revoke all nominations, the REVOKE pending action is available via our /stake/balances endpoint

Unlock Locked

If during the staking flow a nominate transaction is to fail or the users have stepped back from nominating using revoke, KSM tokens will be presented as locked. A pending action will then be available on the locked balance that allows users to unlock these tokens. To unlock these tokens, the UNLOCK_LOCKED pending action is available via our /stake/balances endpoint.

Vote

If the user has some locked tokens or some active nominations, they can change the set of nominated validators without unstaking by running this pending action. This will require them to pass a set of validator addresses that they will start nominating, invalidating any previous nominations. To nominate a new validator set, the VOTE pending action is available via our /stake/balances endpoint.

Rebond

In the case that users have started to unlock some KSM tokens, it is possible to cancel that unlocking. This is available by running the REBOND pending action via our /stake/balances endpoint for the Unlocking balances.

Considerations

1. Stakers start earning rewards at the end of the following era — within 24-48 hours after staking, if their validator is included in the next era's active set.
2. A staker can vote for up to 16 validators.

Preferred Validators