Stake and Unstake NLS

Staking NLS is straightforward and works through several interfaces. The Nolus Web App is the simplest place to start: staking sits on the Earn page next to the lending pools, and the app takes care of the validator side for you.

Click Earn in the navigation bar at the top of the app; on a phone or a narrow window, open the menu at the top left first. NLS is the first row of the assets table, and it is your stake rather than a deposit: with a wallet connected, Your Deposit is the amount you have staked, Yield is the chain's current staking rate, and Total Deposits is all the NLS staked on the chain, in USD. A dash where the Yield shows means the rate has not loaded yet, not that staking pays nothing. The Margin page, where the app opens, carries the same two figures: the Earnings widget lists NLS with the staking rate in its Yield section, and your own stake sits on that row as Staked.

To stake, the NLS has to be in your Nolus account: if it is still in your Solana wallet, move it in with Fund first. Then click Deposit at the top of the assets table and pick NLS in the asset picker; the picker is ordered by what you hold, so NLS is not always on top. Type the amount: the Preview reads You stake followed by the amount and its dollar value, with the note Unstaking takes 21 days, and the button reads Stake. Click it and confirm in your wallet. The confirmation reads Assets Delegated Successfully, and your tokens are staked and earning.

To unstake, click Withdraw instead and pick NLS. The balance line above the field is labelled Staked rather than Balance, the Preview reads You unstake followed by the amount and its dollar value, then You also receive followed by the staking rewards that unstake pays out and their dollar value, the same Unstaking takes 21 days note sits under it, and the button reads Unstake. The rewards line shows once the app has worked out the figure for the amount you typed, and only when there is something to pay out. Confirm in your wallet and the app answers Assets Undelegation Now in Progress. Through those 21 days the tokens are locked and do not earn rewards.

Anything already unstaking is listed in the same Withdraw dialog while NLS is picked, below the Preview: one Unstaking row per entry, each with its amount and the date it completes, in the order they complete. If nothing is unstaking, there is no list.

Clicking the balance line above the amount field fills the field for you. When you stake, it holds the network fee back, so the figure it fills can sit slightly under the balance shown on that line. When you unstake it fills the whole staked amount, because the fee never comes out of your delegation.

Clicking Deposit or Withdraw with no wallet attached brings up the Select Wallet picker first. A link straight to the Withdraw tab opens it either way, showing the line connect wallet to continue above a Connect button in place of the form; connecting swaps the form in where you stand.

If your account holds vesting NLS, the Vested card at the bottom of the Earn page shows the amount and its Release Schedule.

A validator can stop producing blocks, and the slice of your stake sitting with it stops earning. You do not have to go looking for it. A strip appears above the assets table reading Part of your stake has stopped earning, with a Fix button on the right. One click moves that stake somewhere healthy and collects your rewards in the same transaction, and the app confirms with Rewards Claimed Successfully. Any stake, unstake or Fix you sign carries the same repair, so the problem often clears itself the next time you do anything.

Staking always happens on the Nolus network, and you can reach it from a Solana session. A Solana session (Solflare or Phantom) also carries a Nolus account derived from the same key, and your Solana wallet extension signs the staking transaction, so no Cosmos wallet is needed. The NLS row is always offered, because staking is a chain-level action rather than a pool.

NLS also trades on Solana, and that is where the one extra step comes in: NLS sitting in your Solana wallet, whether you bought it there or moved it across from Nolus, is not staked and earns nothing. Move it into your Nolus account first, using Fund on NLS, and stake it once it shows up there. Several unrelated tokens use the NLS ticker on Solana; the app recognises only the NLS issued through the protocol's transfer channel, which is the one Jupiter marks as verified.

The Keplr Dashboard lets you connect your wallet, switch to the Nolus network, and manage staking from there, including viewing active stakes and rewards.

Nolus Lens, the Nolus explorer, offers a more detailed view. Its Validators by voting power table lists every validator with its voting power, cumulative share, commission, uptime and status, and each validator's own page adds its performance, slashes and votes cast. The Stake button on a validator's page opens a staking form once you connect a wallet.

The REStake App also supports Nolus staking.

In the Nolus app there is nothing to choose. Every stake, unstake and Fix is put together for you: new stake goes to healthy, low-commission validators outside the largest ones, a top-up spreads across the delegations you already hold, an unstake is taken from anything unhealthy first, and a stranded delegation is moved on the next staking transaction you sign. Your wallet still signs each transaction, and the app refuses to sign anything other than the stake, unstake or Fix you asked for.

The other interfaces are validator-facing, so there the choice is yours and worth some due diligence. Useful signals are the bonded amount, the commission rate and uptime history. Validators that act maliciously or go offline for long stretches can be slashed, which affects the tokens staked with them. Moving your stake to a different validator that way is instant, but once you redelegate from the same wallet you cannot move that stake again for 21 days.

Staking NLS gives you two things: staking rewards, and voting power in governance. It does not change the interest rate on a margin position and does not raise the APR on assets you deposit in Earn. A position's borrow rate is set by how much of the pool is already lent out at the moment the position opens, and it stays fixed for the life of the position, so there is no staking discount and no tiered lender APR.

Rewards and voting power belong to the Nolus account that staked the NLS. Keplr and a Phantom or Solflare wallet derive two different Nolus accounts, so a stake made from Keplr is managed in the Keplr dashboard at wallet.keplr.app (Nolus chain), not from the app, which no longer connects Keplr, and nothing from it carries over into a Solana session. To stake from a Solana session, the NLS has to be in that session's Nolus account first; see "How do I move my NLS from my Keplr account to Phantom or Solflare?" in the Troubleshooting & FAQ. Moving a stake means unstaking first, which starts the 21-day unbonding period.

The Earn page has no figure for unclaimed staking rewards and no Claim button. An unstake pays the rewards of the stake it takes from into your Nolus account: the You also receive line of the Withdraw dialog shows what that unstake pays out. A stake that adds to a validator you already stake with also pays out that validator's pending rewards, though the app does not show that amount, and Fix, when it shows, collects them as well. On the Margin page, your unclaimed rewards are counted in USD in the Yield Earned figure of the Earnings widget.

Because of the fee model, staking rewards can arrive in more than one asset. Fees on the Nolus network can be paid in any of the supported assets (NLS, cbBTC, HYPE, SOL, USDC, USDC (Noble) and wETH), so your rewards may come in NLS or in any of the others. Rewards paid into your Nolus account can be staked again to compound.