Stake
Staking locks FLR on the P-chain to our validator for a fixed term and earns the validator's staking rewards, net of our fee. This page is the full staking guide, with every number stated plainly. Live figures are read from Flare mainnet by your browser, not from our servers.
Looking to delegate instead? No minimum, no lock-up, full delegation guide →. Side-by-side comparison of both paths: earn page.
Two taps: copy, then paste it in the Portal. Cross-check the value against the one printed lower on this page and on our X account before you confirm.
Staking at a glance
Room to stake
How much you can stake with CashLab right now, and when more room frees up. Reads live from the chain.
reading the chain…
| Date (UTC) | Room that opens up |
|---|
Each date is when a current stake's lock ends and that much room frees up. Approximate; updates live.
How to stake, the steps in the Portal
- In the Flare Portal, open the Staking section and connect your wallet.
- First time only: the Portal will ask you to register your address (binding your C-chain and P-chain addresses, one signature, no funds move).
- Transfer the FLR you want to stake from the C-chain to the P-chain (the Portal does this in-flow).
- Pick a validator and search for ours:
NodeID-8Tp4GLFefnrLzzD7YU6qvEzDRRT1L6Zec - Enter an amount of 50,000 FLR or more and a duration of 14 days or more. Your stake's end date must fall within our current validation term, the Portal's date picker enforces this automatically.
- Confirm in your wallet. Your FLR is now locked and earning until the end date, when it unlocks automatically, there is nothing to "withdraw" and no action anyone else can take on it.
- Staking rewards are claimed on the C-chain side, through Flare's ValidatorRewardManager contract. Flare's developer documentation states that staking rewards do not expire, while delegation rewards expire after 25 reward epochs (Flare's claiming guide, read 2026-09-08). The per epoch staking share paid through the RewardManager expires after about 90 days, like delegation rewards.
Our fee, stated plainly
20%, on both paths. It applies to reward flows only, your principal is never touched, and 80% of the rewards earned on what you delegate or stake is yours.
| Path | Fee |
|---|---|
| WFLR delegation | 20%, the network-wide minimum set by Flare governance in FIP.16 (April 2026) and enforced on-chain: the fee contract's minFeeBIPS reads 2000 (= 20.00%) for every provider. Ours is exactly the floor, verifiable, not a promise. |
| Validator staking | 20%, our posted rate, matching the same governance minimum from day one. You may find validators displaying lower rates: fees set before the FIP.16 rule, or before its enforcement completes across the staking layer, remain in force for the remainder of those validators' current terms. |
What you're staking on
| Topic | Details |
|---|---|
| Operation | Independent, solo-operated. The full Flare protocol stack, FTSO price feeds, Fast Updates, FDC attestations and our own validator, on dedicated hardware we operate. |
| Self-bond | 3,000,000 FLR of our own capital is staked to the same validator, on the same terms, before anyone else's. When epoch 422 paid zero, it paid us zero too. |
| Monitoring | Monitored around the clock, with escalation to a human. |
| Results | New validator (live August 2026). We publish live numbers rather than promises, judge us on the status page as the history accrues. |
Risks, stated plainly
| Risk | What it means |
|---|---|
| Your FLR is locked | There is no early exit. Once a stake is confirmed, your FLR is locked until the end date you chose, Flare has no mechanism to unlock it sooner, for anyone. Only stake what you will not need before that date. |
| Worst case | Missed rewards, never lost principal. Flare's P-chain has no slashing for stakers: if our validator underperforms or goes offline, you can earn nothing for that period, but your staked FLR cannot be taken or reduced. FTSO-side penalties fall on CashLab's own stake, not yours. |
| One validator | CashLab runs a single validator node today, there is no second node to fail over to. It is monitored around the clock with escalation to a human, but we state the single point of failure plainly rather than hide it. |
| Term boundary | Our current bond period ends Oct 7, 2026. Stakes cannot extend past that date until we re-bond for the next term, the Portal's date picker enforces this. |
| Variable rewards | Rewards change every epoch and can be zero. Nothing on this page is a guarantee of any return. |
And as covered above: stakes never renew themselves. When your end date passes, your FLR unlocks and simply stops earning until you act.
Live on-chain numbers
Verify these independently: our validator on the flare.builders validator dashboard, our entity on the Flare Systems Explorer, or query Flare's own public API for NodeID-8Tp4GLFefnrLzzD7YU6qvEzDRRT1L6Zec, we publish nothing you cannot check yourself.