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Getting Started with Staking

A staking address is a TRON address that holds staked (frozen) TRX and that Transatron manages on your behalf. Instead of burning TRX to pay for transactions, Transatron delegates the energy and bandwidth produced by your staked TRX to transactions, then reclaims it once each transaction is confirmed.

You keep ownership of the address and the staked TRX at all times. Transatron only ever holds a management permission that you grant on-chain — it can delegate and reclaim resources (and, if you opt in, stake rewards, vote, and claim voting rewards), but it cannot move or unstake your TRX.

You manage all of this from the Staking section of the Dashboard.

Add a staking address​

In the Dashboard, open Staking. If you have no staking address yet, you'll see the Get Started with Staking screen with two options:

  • Add Staking Address — register your own TRON address directly with the platform. Recommended when you stake a larger amount and want your address served directly.
  • Join Staking Pool — contribute to a shared staking pool instead of running your own address.

This page covers Add Staking Address. To register your address:

  1. In Staking, click Add Staking Address.
  2. In the Add Staking Address dialog, fill in:
    • Staking Name — a label to recognise this address in the Dashboard (e.g. Main treasury).
    • Staking Address — your TRON address, starting with T.
  3. Click Add. The address now appears as a card in your Staking section.

At this point the address is registered but not yet active — Transatron still needs permission to manage it on-chain.

Grant the management permission​

Each staking address card shows a management key (the Transatron account that will manage the address) and a setup step to authorise it on-chain. Granting this permission is what lets Transatron delegate your resources.

  1. On the staking address card, click Set permissions.
  2. The Dashboard connects to your TronLink wallet — approve the connection. Make sure the wallet selected in TronLink is the same address you registered.
  3. TronLink asks you to approve a permission-update transaction. This grants the Transatron management key the permissions it needs to operate the address:
    • DelegateResource and Reclaim Resource — delegate energy/bandwidth to transactions and reclaim it afterwards.
    • Vote, Claim Voting Rewards, and TRX Stake (2.0) — used only by the optional auto features; they let Transatron vote, claim voting rewards, and re-stake on your behalf when you enable those toggles.
  4. After the transaction is broadcast, the Dashboard verifies it on-chain. Once verified, click Verify management key if prompted; the card switches to its verified state and the address starts serving.
Multisig or manual setup

If you use a multisig account, click Open TronScan permissions to grant the permission in TronScan instead. You can also add the permissions yourself in TronScan at any time — add DelegateResource, Reclaim Resource, Vote, Claim Voting Rewards, and TRX Stake (2.0) to the management key, then return to the Dashboard and use Verify management key.

Stake TRX on your address​

Granting the management permission lets Transatron delegate your resources — but it does not create any. You stake your own TRX. Transatron never moves or freezes your funds, so you are responsible for staking (freezing) TRX on the address yourself, from your own wallet using TRON Stake 2.0. An address with no staked TRX produces no energy or bandwidth, so there is nothing for Transatron to delegate and the address serves nothing — even after it is verified.

When you stake, freeze for both energy and bandwidth, in roughly a 90% energy / 10% bandwidth split:

  • Energy is the bulk of what your transactions consume, so the large majority of your stake should go to it.
  • Bandwidth is required to serve energy — every delegation and transaction also consumes bandwidth. An address staked purely for energy can't actually serve, because it runs out of bandwidth. Keep a small bandwidth reserve so the address can keep delegating.

Next steps​

Once your staking address is verified, you can: