Ada holders can delegate their stake to pools to earn rewards. See the staking calculator to estimate returns.
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- DelegationThe process of assigning your stake to a stake pool without transferring your ada.View term
- Slot LeaderThe stake pool selected by Ouroboros to produce a block in a given time slot.View term
- Pool SaturationThe threshold past which extra delegation to a stake pool stops increasing rewards; a built-in incentive to spread stake across many pools rather than concentrate it in a few.View term
- RewardsAda earned by delegators and stake pool operators for participating in the network.View term
- Stake Pool DepositThe refundable amount of ada locked when registering a new stake pool, currently 500 ada on mainnet; returned in full when the pool retires.View term
- Minimum Pool CostThe protocol parameter that sets the floor on the fixed cost a stake pool can declare per epoch, currently 170 ada on mainnet.View term