Celo staking

Lock CELO and vote for a validator group with a 1-day warmup and 3-day unbonding period on exit.

Stake CELO by locking tokens and voting for a validator group. A new account is created and CELO locked before the vote is cast; exiting unlocks CELO after a 3-day period.

Yields

Yield ID	Staking type	Provider	Validator selection
celo-celo-native-staking	Native	Any active validator group	Required

Key facts

Network ID	celo
Staked token	CELO
Unbonding / cooldown	3 days
Warmup	1 day
Rewards	Auto, credited to the locked balance periodically

Enter and exit

Celo requires an account to exist before CELO can be locked, and CELO to be locked before it can be voted to a validator group. The first enter action returns three ordered transactions: create account, lock CELO, and vote (delegate) with amount and validatorAddress.

Exiting returns two transactions: revoke the vote from the validator group, then unlock the CELO. The unlocked balance enters a 3-day unbonding period before it can be withdrawn.

Managing the position

Action	What it does
STAKE_LOCKED	Retry voting a locked balance that did not get delegated (for example after a failed vote transaction)
UNLOCK_LOCKED	Start unlocking a locked balance that is not currently voted
WITHDRAW	Withdraw the unlocked balance after the 3-day unbonding period

Related

EVM staking coverage

All EVM native staking integrations.

Preferred validators

How validator selection and preferred validators work.

Actions

The enter, exit, and manage action model.