# Staking

Requirements

Collateral - 100\_000 STL Leliability for last 30 days >= 90% Node must be verified

Reward distribution scheme

The billing period is 1 week (every 7 days).

Amount of reward depends on how much staking nodes already activated, how much blocks mined (may vary due to block time), what hardware installed on node and what services provided by it.

In case if no services provided, node will receive only base reward (60%)

If block time is always 15 seconds then the following amount of blocks would be mined:

1 minute - 4 1 hour - 240 1 day - 5760 1 week - 40320

In this calculation we will use reward amount for Arcturus and Oldenburg eras where 1.5 STL from each block going to staking fund.

The total amount of coins mined for 1 week would be 60480 STL.

Let’s assume we have 10 nodes up and running, then the 60480 STLwould be distributed across they in the following proportion:

60% (base reward) - 36240 STL, 3624 for each node 10% (vpn reward) - 6040 STL, 604 for each node which provide VPN service 10% (rent reward) - 6040 STL, 604 for each node which provide renting service 20% (gpu reward) - 12080 STL, 1208 for each node which provide renting service with GPU

In case of no nodes for which needs to distribute 40% (except base reward) the coins will be left in staking fund for the next round.

Most profitable variant is to have node with GPU and which provides both services. Such node will be rewarded by 6040 STL per week and also additional payments for services usage.

How to configure

Install the node Configure it by setting up prices, turn on/off VPN service providing, specify ports and so on… In CUBE in Staking menu choose your node and specify your wallet address with balance 100\_000 STL or more

Wallet address must be unique per node, staking rewards will be sent to this address so be sure you have full access to it.

How it works in a nutshell

When node and staking are configured the system will start periodic checks of node availability and monitoring wallet balance. If the system detects that a wallet balance is less than 100\_000 STL then staking for this node will be deactivated.

Be aware about your node uptime, it’s a very important metric, nodes which have uptimes less than 95% for the last 30 days will not be rewarded.
