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EARN REWARDS* BY STAKING YOUR CARDANO

Staking your Cardano allows you to passively earn rewards for helping to secure the network.

Through the Yoroi wallet or AdaLite, and by pairing it with your Ledger hardware wallet, you can easily and securely delegate the Cardano you want to stake.

You’ll get competitive rewards, and a trustworthy validator, and you keep ownership of your coins.

EARN REWARDS* BY STAKING YOUR CARDANO

WHY STAKING YOUR CARDANO

Cardano, a cryptocurrency with a large market capitalization, aims to advance Ethereum's concept with a blockchain that offers flexibility, sustainability, and scalability for executing smart contracts. This enables the creation of various decentralized finance applications, crypto tokens, games, and other innovations.

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Secure the network

When you stake Cardano, you make the Cardano blockchain successful by securing the network and validating transactions.

STAKING CARDANO IS BETTER WITH A WALLET APP THAT SUPPORT THE MOST SECURE COLD WALLET

Secure

Pairing your Ledger with a third-party wallet, allow you to grow your Cardano bag securely.

Ownership

Keep full custody of your assets when you stake with Yoroi wallet or AdaLite, unlike with crypto exchanges.

Freedom of choice

It's up to you to choose which validators you want to delegate your Cardano too.

Earn rewards

Earn rewards

You can passively grow your assets by participating in the Cardano network. By delegating your ADA to a validator, you will receive rewards for helping to secure the network.

The current annual yield on Cardano is around 3%.

You can stop delegating your Cardano at any time and you will no need to wait to unlock your ADA tokens.



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5 STEPS TO START SECURELY STAKING CARDANO

01

Buy a Ledger hardware wallet

Ledger hardware wallets are the smartest way to securely store your assets.

02

Set up your device

Follow the setup steps.
Ledger is your gateway to securely and easily buy, manage, stake, and grow your assets. All in one app.

03

Download and install a third-party-wallet

Download and install a Yoroi wallet or AdaLite extension that lets you manage your Cardano.

04

Connect your Ledger Nano to your third-party-wallet


  1. Connect your Ledger Nano to a computer/smartphone and unlock it.

  2. Open your wallet extension.

  3. Connect your third-party wallet to Ledger Nano.

05

Start staking Cardano

Now that you have a Cardano wallet secured by your Ledger with ADA tokens in it, you should simply go to the Delegation List, pick a stake pool, and confirm delegation with your hardware wallet.

Want to learn more about staking?

We answer all the basic questions you might have in our Ledger academy: What is staking? What’s the difference between Proof-of-Stake and Proof-of-Work? What is a validator?

You can also take a look at our School of Block series on Youtube to learn how to get started in staking and make your money work for you.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Cardano utilizes Proof-of-Stake as its consensus mechanism, in which users invest a coin to have the chance to serve as a validator. There are two ways to take part in the staking and validation process: by becoming a stake pool owner or operator. Stake pools serve as trusted server nodes that validate transactions.

To be a stake pool owner, one must delegate their Ada to a pool. This can be done by creating your own private pool or by pledging your Ada to an existing one.

A stake pool operator, on the other hand, is responsible for the maintenance of the pool and its duties include renting servers, monitoring the node, safeguarding the pool key, and performing other administrative tasks.

When staking to a Cardano stake pool, you can freely transfer your ADA in and out of your wallet, for trading or spending purposes, without any lock-in period. Just ensure that your ADA is in a pool before the epoch snapshot period for it to be counted for rewards.

You have full ownership of your Cardano when you stake through a third-party wallet, unlike with crypto exchanges.

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