When you decide to stake your ATOM, you are delegating ATOM to a validator. The more amount of ATOM is delegated in these validators, the more transactions they will be able to approve and validate within the Cosmos blockchain.

When staking your ATOM, you are able to choose how much of your ATOM you want to delegate to the Cosmos validator. You will accumulate rewards from the moment you stake any amount of ATOM.

You can manage your staking ATOM through the staking platform anytime you want to delegate more, undelegate or redelegate in another validator, as well as claim your rewards. Please note that delegations are non-custodial, so the nodes cannot steal the delegator’s funds.

You will receive your staking rewards anytime you claim them through the staking interface. Please note that rewards do not expire. You can re-stake these rewards to earn a compounded interest.

The consensus mechanism used by Cosmos includes a slashing mechanism, that is to say that part of the stake of a node might be slashed if it does not behave correctly. Other risks could be protocol bugs, network attacks, and bad key management by the user. We adopt the necessary measures to bring the slashing risks to the minimum. We also have a Staking Insurance Program to cover losses in case of an accident caused by us.

Stakely’s Cosmos validator is managed by a highly-skilled team with Tendermint-based blockchains. In addition, Stakely counts on a Staking Insurance Program to cover any losses in case of slashing incidents, prioritizing the safety of users’ delegations.

There is no minimum amount required to stake ATOM. However, we recommend keeping a small amount of tokens undelegated to cover transaction fees on the network.

The process of undelegating the tokens from the node is called unbonding and it takes 21 days to complete. Users can also move their stake instantly from one validator to another using the redelegate function.

In case you decide to unstake your ATOM, you can choose how much ATOM you want to unstake. The unclaimed rewards will be auto-claimed once you unstake your ATOM. The chosen amount to unstake will become unbonding and you will have to wait 21 days to use your ATOM.

The minimum commission has been set at 5% in Cosmos. This fee is necessary to maintain and monitor the validator in a sustainable way in the long term.