Staking, voting & rewards

TRON's Stake(2.0) system lets TRX holders stake TRX to acquire system resources (Bandwidth and Energy), obtain TRON Power (TP) for governance voting, and receive voting rewards. Active since April 7, 2023 (proposal #84), Stake 2.0 separates staking and delegation and gives developers fine-grained control over resource management.

The full loop

Stake TRX → Get Bandwidth/Energy + TRON Power
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Delegate resources to other accounts (optional)
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Vote for Super Representatives → Earn voting rewards
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Unstake TRX (14-day waiting period) → Withdraw to spendable balance

Each step is its own page in this chapter. Read them in order if you are new, or jump straight to the operation you need.

In this chapter

• Stake 2.0 overview — What Stake 2.0 is, what is improved compared to Stake 1.0, and how to stake TRX to get Bandwidth, Energy, and TRON Power.
• Delegating resources — Lend your Bandwidth or Energy to another account; understand lock_period, what can and cannot be delegated, and how to undelegate.
• Unstaking & cancellation — How to unstake TRX (start the 14-day waiting period), withdraw expired funds, cancel pending unstake operations, and the TRON Power reclamation rules.
• Resource reclamation upon undelegation — The exact formula and example for how the network recovers a recipient's unrecovered resources when delegated TRX is withdrawn.
• Voting for Super Representatives — Use TRON Power to vote for SRs and SR Partners; understand the 6-hour vote-counting cycle and how unstaking affects ongoing votes.
• Reward calculation — Block production rewards (8 TRX/block) and voting rewards (128 TRX/block); brokerage ratios; worked examples for both SRs and SR Partners.
• Staking & reward APIs — Quick-reference table of every HTTP API used in this chapter.

Suggested reading order

If you are coming from another chain or new to TRON, read in this order: Stake 2.0 overview → Voting for Super Representatives → Reward calculation. The other pages are reference material — go there when you need a specific operation.

If you are debugging or building staking flows, Staking & reward APIs is the fastest entry point.

Related resources

• Resource model — how Bandwidth, Energy, and TRON Power work
• Stake 2.0 Solidity SDK reference — call staking operations from inside a smart contract
• Consensus & DPoS — how SRs are elected and how the network reaches consensus
• TIP-467 — Stake 2.0 specification