Polkadot (DOT) Liquid Staking earn rewards while hold crypto! (2024)

Ankr Staking’s Polkadot Staking reward rates are viewable at any time as the “DOT APR.” This percentage includes the small fee Ankr takes as a 2% commission rate from the DOT staking rewards.

Yes. All staking solutions on Ankr Staking are self-custodial, meaning that you will hold your staked DOT in your own wallet, such as your MetaMask wallet. From there, you can send your staked DOT to any wallet or exchange you wish.

Yes, you can unstake your DOT at any time. However, if you decide to unstake, it can take up to 28 days in the unbonding period before the DOT is released to your wallet. Learn more about unstaking.

You will claim Polkadot staking rewards by accepting the aDOTb token to your wallet. These DOT Liquid Staking tokens will automatically deliver rewards to your aDOTb balance daily through rebasing, that is, growing in quantity. See the full guide to claiming your DOT staking rewards here.

When you stake DOT on Ankr Staking, it will automatically be sent to the most appropriate validator nodes. You will then receive aDOTb tokens that represent your staked DOT and deliver staking rewards just by holding them in your wallet. You can redeem your aDOTb tokens for your original DOT, your base stake plus the accumulated rewards, at any time.

Your Polkadot staking experience will last as long as you want, as you will have the ability to unstake your funds at any time.

You can use the earnings calculator on this page to determine the possible rewards you could earn with your DOT. This will give you a monthly and yearly estimation of your rewards.

You can check your DOT staking rewards at any time by checking your aDOTb wallet balance or by connecting your wallet to Ankr Staking and navigating to the “My Portfolio” section to find analytics on your assets and rewards earned.

Polkadot liquid staking from Ankr provides additional benefits in the form of the aDOTb token. The token gives you extra flexibility to transfer to other wallets, trade on supported DEXs, or earn additional rewards with any supported DeFi strategies.

The only risk for stakers is the chance they will miss out on rewards during any time a validator they staked with is slashed. Slashing is a protocol-level penalty associated with a validator failure if it validates an invalid transaction, attacks the network, or goes offline. The delegated staked DOT will not be slashed — slashing impacts only the self-stake of the validator. Ankr only delegates to trusted and reputable validator nodes to avoid any validator that would act maliciously.

Staking is an important mechanism in Polkadot’s Nominated Proof-of-Stake blockchain. Contributing DOT to validators is important as they need it in order to meet requirements for processing transactions and creating new blocks on the blockchain. Stakers will then earn a share of the validators’ earned rewards.

Polkadot staking has a unique requirement that you will need to connect a Polkadot.js wallet holding your DOT and a MetaMask wallet that will be used to collect aDOTb. You should have both of these wallets ready before staking DOT. Learn more.

You will need at least 1 DOT to start staking, but there is no maximum.

There is no minimum staking period, and you can unstake at any time, but the unbonding period to unstake your DOT will be up to 28 days before you receive them to your wallet.

You can stake your Polkadot (DOT) with Ankr Staking using Polkadot Liquid Staking to receive rewards daily.