Staking Your BZE

Staking is the simplest way to put your BZE to work. You delegate some of your coins to a validator — one of the computers that keep the network running — and in return you earn a share of the rewards, including the new coins the network creates through inflation. You are helping keep BeeZee secure, and your coins stay yours the whole time: you are only choosing who to back, never handing them over.

Everything happens on one dashboard at staking.getbze.com. Before you can stake, connect a wallet.

Connecting a Wallet

What the dashboard shows you

At the top of the page you will see a few headline numbers that tell you what staking looks like right now:

• Staking APR — roughly what you can expect to earn over a year, along with how much BZE is being handed out to stakers each day.

• How much of the network is staked — the share of all BZE that people have delegated. A higher share means a more secure network.

• The unbonding period — how long your coins take to come back to you after you unstake (more on that in Managing Your Stake).

These figures update with the live network. For the wider tokenomics picture, head to the BeeZee website.

Choosing a validator

Below the headline numbers is the validator list — every validator you can delegate to. You can scroll or search it, and each entry tells you what you need to know at a glance:

• Rank / voting power — how much is staked with that validator. This is a rough sign of how established and trusted it is.

• Commission % — the small cut the validator keeps from the rewards before passing the rest to you. Lower is more generous to you, but a healthy validator needs some commission to keep its machines running.

• A "Jailed" badge — this appears when a validator is currently offline or has been penalised for misbehaving. A jailed validator earns no rewards, so neither would you while backing it.

As a rule of thumb, pick an active validator with a reasonable commission, and steer clear of any showing a Jailed badge. Spreading your stake across more than one validator is also a perfectly good idea.

Delegating your BZE

Once you have picked a validator, staking takes a few seconds:

1. Click Stake next to the validator.

2. Enter an amount. Handy shortcuts fill in 25%, 50%, 75%, or Max of your balance for you.

3. Confirm the transaction in your wallet, and you are done — rewards start adding up automatically.

Keep a little BZE spare for fees. Every transaction on the network costs a tiny fee in BZE, so it is best not to stake absolutely everything. If you try to stake your whole balance, the app offers a one-click Reserve BZE for fees option that leaves a small amount behind for you — take it, so you can always claim rewards, unstake, or move coins later.

That is all there is to it. Once your BZE is staked, you can watch your rewards grow, claim them, move your stake, or unstake at any time.

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