Root Staking, Validators and Fees on Stakao

Stake on Root stays in TAO, and it earns a share of the rewards that subnets pay out. Moving TAO in and out of Root is not a swap against a subnet pool.

Root rewards are not fixed. They depend on the validator you are staked with and on how emissions are shared between subnets, and they can fall over time. Nothing here is a promise of a return.

On the Premium strategies, TAO that the risk engine has not put into a subnet position waits on Root instead of sitting idle in your wallet. Stakao also collects your Root staking rewards through the same staking-only permission.

A validator is a node that scores the work done on a subnet. When you stake, you back one validator and share in its rewards, minus the part the validator keeps, which is called its take.

Root has its own ranking.

Auto Validators and Smart DCA also choose validators for you, so you do not need to compare them yourself.

Because the price is flat, it does not grow when your stake grows or when your rewards grow.

• Free plan: €0, with Auto Validators and Smart DCA.
• Premium: €19 per month, or €168 per year (€14 per month), with a 7-day free trial.
• Network fees: every on-chain action pays a small Bittensor network fee from your wallet’s free TAO. Stakao adds no fee on top.
• Pool fees: moving into or out of a subnet token goes through that subnet’s pool, which charges a small swap fee. Root has no pool fee.
• Chain deposit: 0.126 TAO is reserved while the staking permission exists. It is yours and it returns when you remove the permission.

Free TAO pays the network fee of each stake, unstake and claim. If it runs out, signing fails with a message such as "Insufficient balance". The troubleshooting guide lists the messages and what to do.