https://support.token.im/hc/en-us/articles/360021933754-COSMOS-Staking-FAQ
As an ATOM delegator, you can stake your tokens with one or more Validators. In exchange for delegating you will earn a percentage of network transaction fees and also receive additional ATOMs from continuous inflation called block provision.
COSMOS Hub validators participate in consensus by broadcasting cryptographic signatures, or votes, to commit blocks. [[tendermint]] requires a fixed known set of validators, where each validator is identified by their public key. Validators attempt to come to consensus one block at a time, where a block is a list of transactions.
If an ATOM token holder chooses not to delegate to a Validator, they will neither receive a percentage of network transaction fees nor block provisions, and their percentage to the total amount of ATOMs will decrease over time from inflation.
Delegating and rewards are effective immediately.
You can check your real-time rewards on the home page of the Staking DApp. Delegation can be unbound at any time.
Go to Staking DApp, select the validator on the top, then choose one validator to view additional information.
Of course. You can change a validator any time after you staked. And it will take immediate effect.
Of course you can. And you will get your ATOM back after 21 days.
The rewards of the validator is distributed between the validator and delegator. Validators may take some of the rewards as a commission before distributing the rewards to the delegator.
When evaluating Validators to stake with, you can think about three distinct buckets of questions: missed earnings, slashings, and commission rate.
stake em if you got em
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