Staking

Locking KVR in the vault. It no longer gates operator roles, and nothing requires it.

Staking locks KVR in the vault from the wallet's staking panel. It used to be the gate on operator roles — a bridge or gateway required a stake of 100,000 KVR — and that requirement is gone. No stake is needed to run any node, and a wallet holding no KVR at all can register one and earn. Those two infra roles are assigned by the network instead, which is a stronger control than a price: the old check read a wallet balance once at registration, never locked it and never looked again, so the same 100,000 KVR could register any number of nodes and then be moved away.

• Staking happens in the wallet's dashboard staking panel: enter an amount, Stake, and the position is held in the vault until you unstake it.
• It is not a requirement for anything. Node rewards come from the work a node actually does, plus verified uptime for infra roles — never from holding a balance.
• The devnet staking rate is currently 0%, so a position earns nothing on its own. Treat the panel as a mechanism that exists, not as a way to earn.
• On devnet, staked KVR is held in the staking vault; the staked amount and node rewards are visible in the staking panel.
• Devnet KVR for staking comes from the distribution faucet; devnet SOL for fees comes from the public faucet.