AVAIL STAKING WITH ATLAS

Avail is a modular blockchain focused on data availability. Rollups and application chains can publish transaction data to Avail while execution happens elsewhere. Availability proofs help participants verify that the underlying data can be retrieved.

Native AVAIL is used for transaction fees, governance, and Nominated Proof of Stake security on Avail mainnet. Staking AVAIL helps back the validators that produce blocks and make published data available.

Validators operate infrastructure and participate in consensus. Token holders can become nominators by bonding AVAIL and selecting validator candidates. The protocol assigns backing across elected validators and distributes rewards under its on chain rules.

Open the Avail page in the Atlas app and connect SubWallet or Talisman. Pick one of the Atlas pools, enter an amount, and approve the transaction in your wallet. Leave some liquid AVAIL for fees.

Avail’s official staking guide currently allows a direct nominator to select up to 16 validator candidates. Selecting several candidates doesn’t guarantee that every selection will be elected or receive backing in each era.

With direct nomination you bond AVAIL from your own wallet and choose the validators yourself, up to 16 of them. You only earn in an era when one of your choices is in the active set, so if you nominate a single validator you earn nothing while it’s inactive. A nomination pool bonds its members’ AVAIL together and nominates up to 16 validators as one. Atlas runs every pool listed in the Atlas app and keeps the Atlas validator as a fixed pick in each. In most eras at least one of a pool’s validators is active and earning for its members, which greatly improves your chance of earning rewards. It isn’t guaranteed.

Avail currently documents a 28 day unbonding period. Tokens being unbonded can’t be transferred and generally don’t earn staking rewards. Network governance can change parameters, so verify the current value before submitting an unstake request.

Avail operates in eras. A new nomination may become active in a later era if it backs an elected validator, and rewards follow the network’s payout process. Timing and amounts vary, so don’t treat an estimated annual rate as guaranteed.

Native staking occurs on Avail mainnet. AVAIL held on Ethereum or another network may need to move through an official bridge before it can be bonded. Verify the source chain, destination, token contract, and current Avail guidance before transferring.

A candidate that isn’t elected into the active set doesn’t perform active validator duties for that era. The Avail page in the Atlas app shows whether the Atlas validator is in the active set this era, since only active validators take part in reward production. If it’s the only validator you nominate, you earn nothing for that era. A pool nominates up to 16 validators, so it generally keeps earning when one of them sits out an era.

AVAIL can lose market value, reward rates can change, and bonded tokens are illiquid during unbonding. Validator performance or protocol violations can affect outcomes under network rules. Staking rewards are variable and never guaranteed.