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Delegating MINA

Delegating assigns your stake to a block producer who shares earned rewards minus a fee. You don't need to run a node yourself. See Staking Rewards on Mina for reward details.

If you want to produce blocks directly, see the Block Producers section.

  • Your delegation takes effect after a latency period of 2-4 weeks.
  • You can re-delegate or un-delegate at any time with no penalty. Changes take effect after 1-2 epochs.
  • Your full balance is always delegated -- there is no partial delegation.

Delegate your stake​

First, unlock your account:

mina account unlock --public-key $DELEGATOR_PUBLICKEY

Then delegate:

mina client delegate-stake \
    --receiver $DELEGATEE_PUBLICKEY \
    --sender $DELEGATOR_PUBLICKEY \
    --fee 0.1
FlagDescription
--receiverPublic key of the delegatee (block producer)
--senderPublic key of the account you are delegating from
--feeTransaction fee paid to the network

A stake delegation is a transaction on-chain, which is why it requires a fee.

See also: Mina Foundation Delegation Program.