Delegate sXFI & LPT

This section describes process of delegation of sXFI and LPT to validators in dfinance network.

Any user who has sXFI or LPT on his account's balance can delegate his coins/tokens to one or multiple validators (though a single sXFI or LPT cannot be used twice).

To find validators and delegate you can use our explorer and wallet, or use dncli:

# The staking module contains delegators/validators commands.

# Staking query commands.
dncli q staking --help

# Staking transaction commands.
dncli tx staking --help

How to delegate sXFI & LPT

First, choose the validator you want to delegate your sXFI or LPT to and send delegate transaction to the network.

Use wallet to delegate. Or use dncli:

See the list of validators:

dncli q staking validators

Choose validator and check validator extended info:

 dncli q distribution validator [validator-addr]

Important: Find max_bonding_delegations_lvl parameter and compare with bonding_tokens, if you do small math max_bonding_delegations_lvl - bonding_tokens, you are going to see MAXIMUM amount of sXFI you can delegate to validator. It doesn't affect LPT staking, you can delegate so much LPT as you want.

Choose optimal amount of sXFI or LPT to delegate and send transaction:

dncli tx staking delegate [validator-addr] [amount] --from [account]

As you see, when you delegate, you provide the following arguments:

• [validator-addr] - validator operator address you want to delegate (has walletvaloper1 prefix instead of standard wallet1);

• [amount] - sXFI or LPT amount to delegate. e.g. 2500000000000000000000sxfi or 100000000000000000000lpt.

• [account] - delegator account.

Example:

dncli tx staking delegate walletvaloper10tyyh... 15000000000000000000000sxfi --from [account] # Delegate 15k sXFI.
dncli tx staking delegate walletvaloper10tyyh... 100000000000000000000lpt --from [account] # Delegate 100 LPT.

Once your transaction executed and confirmed, check your account balance - you'll see that it has changed - sXFI you've delegated are not accesible (but not spent - see below):

dncli q account [delegator-addr]

Also, see new delegation done by your account:

dncli q staking delegations [delegator-addr]

Delegated sXFI or LPT coins are stored in the staking module, and you can get them back by unbonding your coins.

Since you have your first delegation, you can start getting rewards, read more in Rewards & Inflation. Also, if you choose validators, who are missing blocks or double sign them (trying to attack the network), you can also be punished for supporting him. See Slashing to see what risks delegation brings.

How to unbond (undelegate)

When you want to get staked sXFI or LPT back, you can send unbond (undelegate) transaction to the network, this will start unbonding procedure. Unbonding procedure will take some time, usually, it's 7 days unbonding period for both sXFI and LPT. During this period the delegator still can be slashed for potential misbehaviors committed by the validator before the unbonding process ends.

Use wallet to unbond or continue with dncli.

Find delegations from your address:

dncli q staking delegations [delegator-addr]

Where:

• [delegator-addr] - delegator address (usually your account address).

Choose validator you want to unbond and run:

dncli tx staking unbond [validator-addr] [amount] --from [account]

Once transaction confirmed, check the status of unbonding sXFI/LPT coins:

dncli q staking unbonding-delegations [delegator-addr]

Once the unbonding period is completed you will get your sXFI or LPT coins back on the account. You can have maximum 7 unbonding stakes and redelegations at the same time.

Redelegation

In situations when you don't want to unbond your sXFI and at the same time don't want to delegate to a specific validator, or if you want to delegate part of your staked sXFI or LPT to another validator, you can redelegate.

Use wallet to redelegate or continue with dncli.

Run redelegate command:

dncli tx staking redelegate [src-validator-addr] [dst-validator-addr] [amount] --from [account]

Where:

• [src-validator-addr] - validator address which already contains delegated sXFI.

• [dst-validator-addr] - new validator address, which we want to redelegate.

• [amount] - sXFI or LPT amount to redelegate.

• [account] - delegator account.

Once your transaction is confirmed, check your delegations:

dncli q staking delegations [delegator-addr]