Managing Your Stake

Once your BZE is staked, the Staking app becomes your home for keeping an eye on it — collecting your rewards, moving your stake around, and unstaking when the time comes. Here is how each part works.

Your validators

The Your validators section lists everything you have delegated: which validators you back, how much you have staked with each, and the pending rewards waiting for you to claim.

If a validator you back goes inactive or gets jailed — meaning it has stopped doing its job and is earning nothing — the app flags it with a "Not earning rewards" warning so you notice quickly. Right beside the warning is a Redelegate shortcut, which lets you move that stake to a healthy validator in one step (see Redelegating below).

Claiming rewards

Your rewards build up automatically from the moment you stake — but they do not land in your wallet on their own. You have to claim them yourself. There is no auto-compound on the network, so nothing moves until you say so.

Claiming is quick. The app opens a batch dialog where you can select some or all of your validators and collect all their rewards in a single transaction.

Want to compound? Since rewards do not reinvest themselves, compounding is a two-step move: claim your rewards, then stake them again on top of your existing delegation. Do that regularly and your stake — and your future rewards — keep growing.

Unstaking (undelegating)

When you want your coins back, you unstake (also called undelegating). This does not return your BZE straight away — it begins an unbonding period, a waiting time during which the coins are locked, earning nothing, before they arrive back in your wallet.

Unstaking is not instant. The unbonding period is currently 21 days. During that time your coins are locked and earn no rewards, and the unbonding cannot be cancelled once started. This is a network setting the community can change through governance, so you can always check the current value on a block explorer. If you only need to switch validators, redelegating avoids this wait entirely.

The app keeps track of any unbonding you have in progress, showing each one with the time left (for example "X days left") or marked Ready with the date the coins become available again.

Redelegating

Redelegating moves stake from one validator to another without the unbonding wait — your coins keep earning the whole time, with no 21-day lock. It is the go-to fix when a validator you back goes offline or gets jailed: instead of unstaking and waiting, you simply redelegate to a healthy validator and carry on earning. You will find a Redelegate action on each of your delegations, and a shortcut right next to any "Not earning rewards" warning.

A couple of honest notes

This app is for native BZE staking only. Reward programs for other tokens — staking your BZE or project tokens to earn a mix of coins — live in the DEX and Communities apps instead. There is also no governance voting here.

Staking Programs