Bittensor Staking Permission (Proxy) Explained

On Bittensor, this kind of permission is called a proxy. You stay the owner of your wallet. The proxy is a limited stand-in that you can remove at any time.

Stakao works through a staking-only permission. It cannot transfer your TAO, and you can revoke access at any time.

The Bittensor documentation says the same about this type of proxy: it can move your stake around, but it cannot transfer TAO out of the account.

• Stake TAO into subnets and onto Root.
• Unstake TAO from your positions, for example when a stop-loss is hit or when you deactivate.
• Collect the staking rewards your TAO earns on Root.

The AI agent, the quant score or the basket rule only suggests subnets. It cannot buy, sell or touch your keys.

The part of Stakao that decides holds no keys.

• Send TAO or subnet tokens to any other address, including a Stakao address.
• Sign other transactions for you, or see your seed phrase or private keys.
• Act on your wallet after you revoke the permission.

This deposit is a chain rule for every proxy. It is not a Stakao fee. The TAO stays yours: it moves from your free balance to your reserved balance, your total balance does not change, and it returns to your free balance when the permission is removed.

When you activate, keep enough TAO free to cover the deposit, plus at least 0.1 TAO for network fees.

Each on-chain action, such as setting up the permission, staking or unstaking, pays a small Bittensor network fee from your wallet’s free TAO. Stakao adds no fee on top. You pay a flat plan price, and Stakao never takes a cut of your staking rewards.

1. 1.Open your dashboard and choose Deactivate on the strategy.
2. 2.Connect the wallet that owns the strategy.
3. 3.Stakao unstakes your positions first. This takes about a minute and needs no action from you.
4. 4.Your wallet then shows one request that removes the Stakao permission. Approve it.
5. 5.Wait for the chain to confirm. After that, Stakao has no access to your wallet.

Use any tool that manages Bittensor proxies, such as the Bittensor command line (btcli), and remove the proxies that name Stakao as the delegate: one for staking and one for collecting Root rewards. Removal takes effect right away, and the deposit comes back to you.

Your stake stays in your wallet, and you can unstake it yourself. Without the permission, Stakao can no longer sell for you, so a stop-loss can no longer act on positions you still hold. To stop cleanly, use Deactivate in Stakao: it unstakes your positions first, then removes the permission.