Serving Policy & Self-Coverage Fees
Once a staking address is active, two things control how its stake is used and how it is billed back to you:
- The serving policy — who this address's resources may be delegated to.
- The self-coverage processing fee — what you pay when you consume resources served by your own reserved address.
You configure the serving policy in the Dashboard: open Staking, expand the address, and open Advanced Settings.
Serving policy
In Advanced Settings, the Serving policy dropdown sets who this staking address serves. It applies address-wide — it governs every resource the address delegates, regardless of the transaction.
| Serving policy | Behavior |
|---|---|
| All txs (default) | The address serves the whole platform at its configured price. Its resources can be delegated to any user's transaction, and you earn from that usage. |
| My txs only | The address is reserved. It serves only you and is excluded from the shared pool, so other users' transactions are never delegated from it. |
A new staking address starts on All txs. Switch it to My txs only when you want to ring-fence your stake for your own traffic instead of contributing it to the platform.
Minimum energy and bandwidth
Below the serving policy, Advanced Settings has two fields:
- Min energy — the minimum amount of energy this address offers.
- Min bandwidth — the minimum amount of bandwidth this address offers.
Each field has a platform floor; the Dashboard rejects a value below it. Edit the values and click Save to apply.
Self-coverage processing fee
When you consume a resource that is served by your own staking address set to "My txs only", that resource is self-covered — you are using stake you already provided. In that case the resource is not charged at the normal resource price. Instead it is billed a flat processing fee:
| Resource | Processing fee |
|---|---|
| Energy | 0.05 USDT |
| Bandwidth | 0.001 USDT |
This avoids a double charge: you already committed the stake that produced the resource, so you only pay a small flat fee to cover the handling of the delegation — not the full resource price.
Self-coverage applies only when the serving address is your own and its serving policy is My txs only. Resources drawn from the shared All txs pool — your own or anyone else's — are billed at the normal resource price.
Limitation: non-instant (post-paid) billing only
The self-coverage processing fee is applied only on the non-instant (post-paid) billing path — transactions whose fee is charged from your internal account after the serving staking address is known.
Instant / pre-paid transactions are billed at the normal resource rate even when self-covered. This includes standard USDT transfers sent through Instant Payments. On the instant path you pre-pay the full fee quote on-chain before the transaction is processed — at that point the serving staking address is not yet known, so no processing-fee discount can be applied.
If you rely on the self-coverage discount, do not bill those transactions through the instant / pre-paid path — use post-paid (internal-account) billing instead.
In short:
- Post-paid (internal account): self-covered resources are billed the flat processing fee. ✅ Discount applies.
- Instant / pre-paid (e.g. proxy USDT transfers): self-covered resources are billed the normal resource price. ❌ No discount.
See also
- Getting Started with Staking — what a staking address is and how to add one.
- Auto Features — auto-staking, auto-voting, and claiming voting rewards.
- Accounts and Balances — how Transatron charges fees from your internal TFN/TFU balance.
- Paying transaction fees with Transatron — the available fee-payment modes, including instant (pre-paid) payments.
- Integration: Instant Payments — the pre-paid path on which the processing-fee discount does not apply.